Flooding

• ‘Before the flood’: The growing urgency of adapting to the climate crisis

  Fire seasons are longer. Storms are stronger and more frequent. Floods are catastrophic. In Canada there is a growing reality that adaptation to climate change is urgently needed.

  Environment

  Nov 25
  
• Cocaine, antibiotics: Report finds pollutants released in Sumas Lake area following 2021 floods

  Raincoast Conservation Foundation, with their partners, took samples of water in the former Semá:th X̱ó:tsa (Sumas Lake) area over a seven-week period following the floods. 

  Environment

  Nov 17
  
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• Nigeria floods were 80 times more likely due to climate change, experts say

  The World Weather Attribution group found that climate change was overwhelmingly behind the heavy rains that left over 800 people dead.

  World

  Nov 16
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• ‘Our flood is a people story’: Princeton, B.C. mayor reflects on the year since atmospheric river

  'One thing that this flood did was reinforced that we're resilient people, and it doesn't matter what you try to throw at us, we're gonna get back up no matter what.'

  Canada

  Nov 15
• Ottawa failing Indigenous communities in wildfire, flood response: auditor general

  The department is spending three-and-a-half times more money helping First Nations recover from disasters, than it is on helping them prepare.

  Canada

  Nov 15
• Latest atmospheric river prompts flood preparations on Vancouver Island

  And after last years devastating floods, some communities aren't taking any chances when it comes to rivers breaching their banks.

  Weather

  Nov 4
• Baie D’Urfé residents voice frustration and concern over newly dug ditches

  More than 30 homeowners along Lakeview Road and Sunny Acres Road in Baie D'Urfé have signed a petition calling on the city to cover ditches recently dug in front of their homes.

  Environment

  Nov 4
• More than 40 seniors displaced after burst pipe floods housing complex

  More than 40 seniors are now adjusting to a new life away from home after a pipe burst on Oct. 18 at Westlands Non-Profit Affordable Housing for Seniors Complex.

  Canada

  Oct 29
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• Fight or flight: Climate forces B.C. community choice

  The idea of relocating his community isn't one that Arnie Lampreau of the Shackan Indian Band in B.C.'s Nicola Valley thought he'd be considering when he was elected chief.

  Environment

  Oct 9
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• Catastrophe experts say retreat from flood risk is ‘critical option’

  Preventing damage in flooding requires a more costly community-level response, he said, whether that means property buyouts or expensive dyking systems.

  Environment

  Oct 9