Manitoba communities brace for possible major spring flooding

CBCnews

Manitobans are no strangers to floods. Here, campers make the most of soggy 

conditions in Neepawa, 2014. PinP photo.

The City of Brandon is already preparing for potential spring flooding. Story here.

'Dante's Inferno' in Chile: Destructive Fires Rage in Record Heat

EcoWatch

Records tumble in infernos in Chile. Details here.

Mongolia: Lethal livestock plague now hitting endangered antelope, warns UN agency

UN News Centre

The international pledge to eradicate a devastating livestock disease affecting mostly sheep and goats has taken on new urgency in the wake of a mass die-off of a rare Mongolian antelope, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Story here.

Mongolian antelope. 

Image from Wikipedia.

Manitoba rewrites hog barn regulations

The Western Producer

Manitoba is removing “impractical and costly” regulations in an effort to revive its hog industry. Story here.

Trump administration backs off plan to scrub climate pages from EPA website

The Washington Post

The Trump administration on Wednesday backed away from plans to take down some climate-change information from the Environmental Protection Agency’s website, which employees said had been planned for this week. But political appointees are exerting more oversight over the agency’s scientific communications. Details here.

One of the last Obama-era climate reports had a troubling update about the rising seas

The Washington Post

A Mexican beach. PinP photo.

A new report, released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on the last day of Barack Obama’s presidency, presents a series of updated estimates for future sea-level rise, both in the United States and worldwide. It suggests that, under extreme future climate change, global sea levels could rise by more than eight feet by the end of the century — one of the highest estimates yet to be presented in a federal report.  Details here.

With the Rise of Trump, Is It Game Over for the Climate Fight?

YaleEnvironment360 - Bill McKibbon

PinP photo.

Donald Trump’s ascension to the presidency is a stunning blow to hopes for avoiding the worst impacts of global warming. But a broad-based, grassroots movement committed to cutting emissions and promoting clean energy must continue and intensify – the stakes are simply too high to give up. Details here.

PROTECTING CANADA’S NATIONAL PARKS. A CALL FOR RENEWED COMMITMENT TO NATURE CONSERVATION

CPAWS Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society

Are human animals "loving our parks to death?" PinP photos.

For almost a decade CPAWS has observed a significant shift in Parks Canada’s approach to managing our national parks, away from their legislative first priority of protecting nature, towards a more tourism and marketing focused agenda which is putting wildlife and wilderness in our national parks at risk. Details here.

Climate change will hurt crops more than it helps them, study suggests

The Washington Post

A new study from institutes around the world, reaffirms the idea that high temperatures could seriously harm the production of some of the world’s most important food crops. Story here.

PinP photo.

On the climate change frontline: the disappearing fishing villages of Bangladesh

theguardian

Kutubdia’s islanders don’t have much of a carbon footprint – most don’t have regular electricity. But they are facing the reality of a changing climate, and soon tens of millions of their fellow Bangladeshis will be at risk. Story here.

A common scene in Bangladesh. Photo by Liftarn.

Dirty industries spend more on politics, keeping us in the fossil age.

by George Monbiot

Alberta tar sands - photo by "Beautiful Destruction."

Make America Wait Again. That’s what Donald Trump’s energy policy amounts to. Stop all the clocks, put the technological revolution on hold, ensure that the transition from fossil fuels to clean power is delayed for as long as possible. Story here.