Tree Power Could Protect Forests From Fires

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a company, Voltree, that literally taps into the tiny electrical current that is carried in trees, and have designed a way to use it as a power...

Barcelona and whole Catalonia (north Spain) suffering under a serious drought...

During my stay in Spain (Catalonia in the north) I got aware of the enormous problems concerning the natural water-sources. That was in February this year. No rain and of course not enough snow in the Pyrenees....

Coming Soon! The Rape of Kananaskis

The little community of Bragg Creek and its surrounding area has only about 3,000 residents but their efforts to stop the planned clear-cutting on the eastern slopes of Kananaskis have been monumental. ...

Pine Beetles - the Afghanistan of Alberta

Sometimes governments need a good target, even if it isn't the right one.  The attack of Afghanistan by the U.S. is one example;  another is the Alberta Government's use of the threat of the pine beetle...

A Canadian Digest: B.C. crews join battle against Ontario forest fires

As forest fires continue to rage throughout Northwestern Ontario, extra firefighters have arrived from British Columbia to help. 

Climate change causing forest fires?

"Rising temperatures and earlier melting of snowpacks have sharply increased the number of Western wildfires -- and scientists say to expect more of the same if the trend persists."

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