Met a new friend at a stop along the Coquihalla. @inaturalist.bsky.social record: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻
@dezene.me
🪲 Professor 🪰 University of Northern British Columbia 🕷️ Insect ecologist 🐝 conservation, biodiversity, natural history 🐛 Opinions are my own 🐞 https://linktr.ee/dezene 🦋
A beautiful garter snake friend on the UNBC campus. @inaturalist.bsky.social observation: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
It's good that people are noticing now that this is very unfortunately a thing in France. But this has been a thing that has been terrifying those of us who live in the middle of Canadian forests for years. E.g.: globalnews.ca/news/2684873...
How the Fort McMurray fire is creating its own weather | Globalnews.ca
The wildfires raging in Fort McMurray have been so intense, they've created their own weather system.
globalnews.ca
Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · last wk.:: blinks :: What.
In case you're counting, the planet is now on day 6 reaching a global surface temperature above 17.0°C. The only other years reaching 17.0°C since records began in 1940, and likely in the last 120,000 years, were 2023 and 2024. Next year will be much hotter.
It’s undeniable that many Canadians are now experiencing the devastating impacts of intensifying wildfires and smoke. The fact is, no amount of forest management and firefighting alone can solve these climate-driven realities. We will have to adapt. 👇 www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
post a perfect album from the 90s
Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · last wk.post a perfect album from the 90s
375,000 people evacuated, major cities under threat, and tourists turned away. France has never had a fire fierce enough to generate a pyrocumulonimbus before. The largest devastation of land since WWII. But net zero is very expensive www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Pedro Sánchez says Spain is suffering effects of climate crisis as firefighters battle wildfires in France
Blazes near Madrid coming under control but efforts to contain huge fire near Bordeaux hampered by windy conditions
theguardian.com
Some pretty cool images here. 🦈 “A third white shark near the Îles-de-la-Madeleine, four have now been geolocated in Quebec waters” 🌎
Le Journal de Montréal@journaldemontreal.com · last wk.Un troisième requin blanc près des Îles-de-la-Madeleine, quatre ont maintenant été géolocalisés en eaux québécoises
(Another) smoke day here in BC’s central interior, highways closed all over the province, communities being evacuated and people at danger of losing everything in the towns of Clinton and Boston Bar, tax dollars going up in firefighting flames. But sure, let’s keep on fracking. 🌎 🔥
Jimmy Thomson@jameswsthomson.com · last wk.Reupping this since Europe is now also on fire. These gas export deals are going to get real awkward.
"Climate change has not disappeared simply because politicians have stopped talking about it." "We can't eat oil." 🌎 ici.radio-canada.ca/espaces-auto...
Nous ne pouvons pas manger le pétrole
« Les changements climatiques n’ont pas disparu simplement parce que les politiciens ont cessé d’en parler. »
ici.radio-canada.ca
America is broiling too.Record heat domes in the US Northeast & Mid-Atlantic. DC hit 102°F (39°C) – new July 4th record. Power grids strained, events canceled. Wildfires in the West & smoke from Canada show how interconnected we are. Climate doesn’t check passports.
CP NewsAlert: Properties destroyed by Clinton, B.C., wildfire
CP NewsAlert: Properties destroyed by Clinton, B.C., wildfire
A regional official says structures on about 20 properties have been "impacted" by an out-of-control fire burning northwest of Clinton, B.C., including some that have been destroyed.
dlvr.it
Metro Vancouver weather: B.C. smashes 12 temperature records, more heat on the way
Metro Vancouver weather: B.C. smashes 12 temperature records, more heat on the way
An air quality advisory remains in effect for the Lower Mainland.
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'Challenging conditions' ahead for wildfires near Boston Bar, as evacuation orders, alerts issued across B.C. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
'Challenging conditions' ahead for wildfires near Boston Bar, as evacuation orders, alerts issued across B.C. | CBC News
With hot, dry weather in the forecast and gusty winds expected in the Fraser Canyon, B.C. firefighting crews are gearing up for a difficult day battling the Boston Bar wildfire complex.
cbc.ca
Lytton, B.C., hits 41 C, hottest temperature in Canada this year www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Lytton hits 41 C, hottest temperature in Canada this year | CBC News
The heat wave that has scorched southern British Columbia this week has seen temperatures pass 40 degrees for a second consecutive day in the Fraser Canyon, marking the two hottest temperatures record...
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Attila Banhegyi has been watching the Brunswick Creek wildfire now threatening Boston Bar and North Bend since it was a small grass fire in early July. His posts have chronicled the wildfire’s progress, the intense battle to stop it and everyday life as flames encroach. thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...
‘I Hope Reinforcements Arrive Soon’: A Wildfire Diary | The Tyee
Boston Bar locals like Attila Banhegyi have fought for weeks to save their community. This is his story.
thetyee.ca
Remaining Boston Bar residents ordered to 'leave now' due to new, fast-moving fire www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Remaining Boston Bar, B.C., residents ordered to 'leave now' due to new, fast-moving fire | CBC News
The Fraser Valley Regional District has ordered anyone remaining in Boston Bar, B.C., to leave immediately due to a new fire south of the community.
cbc.ca
I remember back when I arrived in Canada, before the far left communists took over, how every year everyone in Canada waited for Forest Plot Allocation Day, when we would fine out what plot of land we had been allocated to rake.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoRep. Jeff Van Drew: "Canada isn't working because they are so far left. This should be a warning shot to them. You better come to America, say, 'We're sorry, we're gonna mend our ways and do what we used to do and groom and maintain the forest.'"
A decade or so ago I’d look forward to warm July and August days here in BC. Now the moment it warms up, we’re all breathing in wildfire smoke. And I’m sad to think that this is probably the way it will be for the rest of my life and my kids’ lives.
Since 2009, the per capita rate of Lyme disease has increased approximately 32-fold in Canada, according to calculations by Canada’s National Observer — making it one of Canada's clearest examples of a climate-related health problem. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/20/n...
What they don't teach you about heatwaves: It's not just heat. It's: • Your crops dying • Your river drying (Rhine is low again, disrupting shipping) • Your lungs burning from wildfire smoke • Your power grid collapsing It's everything at once.
My Duolingo avatar is all decked out for the big game today. 🇪🇸 (Follow me there and I’ll follow you back. I’m learning 🇫🇷 .) invite.duolingo.com/profile-shar...
We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.
Another stolen summer day
What are we still waiting to learn?
heated.world
In case anyone’s wondering about the 🔥 🌲 🔥 🌲 🔥 situation in BC. The red dots are out-of-control.
Meet the dedicated team working to rescue an endangered native plant on Savary Island. Its enemy? The mighty Scotch broom. 🌿 @keilibartlett.bsky.social reports. thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...
Beating Back the Brooms on Savary Island | The Tyee
A tiny native plant calls the area’s sand dunes home. The problem? Scotch broom does, too.
thetyee.ca