Growing wildfire activity is linked to rising freshwater contaminants and weakened ocean carbon storage, UBC research shows.

Wildfires pollute waterways and could affect their ability to sequester carbon, recent University of British Columbia ...

The research raises questions over how a range of contaminants may start to negatively impact fisheries, shellfish farms and ...

Dashtgard adds, "The Fraser River and Delta are vital habitat for multiple ecosystems and sustains large parts of Metro Vancouver. We take the system for granted, partly through ignorance ...

"We need the river system and delta to act naturally to some degree to sustain the environments and the urban centres that we have presently.” Simon Fraser professor Jeremy Venditti added development ...

Canada’s “antiquated” legal system is standing in the way of giving the Fraser River "legal personhood" — a strategy that has become increasingly popular around the world in recent years ...

"How much energy going into that river system, and making its way to the Fraser, is pretty staggering," Williams Lake First Nation Chief Willie Sellars said. Content continues below "Much work is ...

Adds Dashtgard, “The Fraser River and Delta are vital habitat for multiple ecosystems and sustains large parts of Metro Vancouver. We take for system for granted, partly through ignorance, but without ...

Canada’s “antiquated” legal system is standing in the way of giving the Fraser River "legal personhood" — a strategy that has become increasingly popular around the world in recent years as a way to ...