Here’s a look at UBC Forestry in the media this month.
AUGUST 27–31
‘Reconciliation in action’: Why First Nations sought to close Joffre Lakes park from the public
Jennifer Grenz | Vancouver Sun | August 31, 2023
Alternate links: The Province, Canada.com, Prince George Post
Claws and effect: Birds talented with their talons share common ancient ancestor
Peter Arcese | CBC | August 30, 2023
The many surprising ways that wildfires impact water systems
John Richardson | CBC | August 29, 2023
After fires, B.C. communities at higher risk of floods and landslides
Younes Alila, Peter Wood | Vancouver Sun | August 29, 2023
Alternate links: The Province, Regina Leader-Post, Prince George Post, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal
Shuswap locals receive basic wildfire training
Sarah Dickson-Hoyle | CityNews | August 28, 2023
How green spaces can keep urban cities cool in a warming world
Andrew Almas | The Weather Network | August 28, 2023
The quest for an ancient colossus, in the wild rainforest of B.C.
Sally Aitken | CTV News | August 27, 2023
Alternate links: CFAX 1070, Times Colonist, The Globe and Mail
When disaster strikes are you getting the information you need?
Lori Daniels | CBC | August 27, 2023
How Indigenous Techniques Saved a Community from Wildfire
Kira Hoffman | The New York Times | August 27, 2023
Alternate links: Seattle Times, Boston Globe, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Indian Express
AUGUST 20–26
Is this the end of primary forests? (FR)
Janette Bulkan | Francopresse | August 26, 2023
B.C. wildfires: Future wildfire mitigation
Sarah Dickson-Hoyle | Global News | August 26, 2023
Opinion: As big burns become the new normal, we need new forest management policies
Suzanne Simard | Vancouver Sun | August 24, 2023
Is B.C. doing enough to tool-up small communities to fend off wildfires?
Sarah Dickson-Hoyle | CityNews | August 24, 2023
B.C. needs to invest more into fire prevention: expert
Sarah Dickson-Hoyle | CityNews | August 23, 2023
B.C. lagging on wildfire prevention 2 decades after report’s dire warning: experts
Kira Hoffman | Global News | August 23, 2023
Alternate links: CFOX, Rock 101
‘So many memories, so many stories’ lost as wildfires destroy 73-year-old B.C. summer campsite
Jen Baron | CBC | August 23, 2023
Alternate links: Yahoo!
This songbird’s genes may show how climate change has sped up evolution
Sally Aitken | Washington Post | August 23, 2023
Alternate links: Seattle Times
20 years after devastating Kelowna wildfires, what have we learned?
Sarah Dickson-Hoyle | Vancouver Sun | August 23, 2023
Some Surprising Places Are at Risk of Devastating Urban Wildfires like Maui’s
Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz | Scientific American | August 23, 2023
Some Canadians affected by wildfires would consider moving: study
Sarah Dickson-Hoyle | CityNews | August 22, 2023
Weather that drove eastern Canada’s devastating wildfires made twice as likely by climate change
Kira Hoffman | CNN | August 22, 2023
Alternate links: Yahoo!, Aol,
Scientists Say New Device Can Scrub 99.9 Percent of Microplastics From Water
Orlando Rojas | Yahoo! | August 22, 2023
B.C. wildlife rehab centre prepares to take in animals orphaned or displaced due to fires
Sarah Dickson-Hoyle | CTV | August 21, 2023
Alternate links: iHeart Radio
Microplastic pollution: Wood dust could be the answer
Orlando Rojas | Canadian Biomass | August 22, 2023
Alternate links: The Truck Loggers Association
UBC researchers filter microplastics with plants (FR)
Orlando Rojas | Radio-Canada | August 21, 2023
North Shuswap controlled burn saved ‘hundreds’ of homes, BC Wildfire Service maintains
Kira Hoffman | Global News | August 21, 2023
Alternate links: CFOX, Rock 101
Wildfire terms every Canadian should be familiar with
Lori Daniels | The Weather Network | August 21, 2023
Out at Mayook Marsh: The beginning of understanding
Tara Martin, Megan Winand | Kimberley Bulletin | August 21, 2023
Alternate links: Cranbrook Daily Townsman, Nelson Star, Rossland News, Boundary Creek Times, Trail Times, Grand Forks Gazette, The Free Press, The Golden Star, Castlegar News, Creston Valley Advance, Arrow Lakes News
Tannins: A possible answer to microplastic pollution?
Orlando Rojas | Envirotec | August 21, 2023
Alternate links: Time.news, diglogs.com, SciTechDaily, Nature World News, Head Topics, Activist Post, BusinessNews, One Green Planet,
Wildfires spark mass evacuations in Canada, Greece & Canary Islands
Jen Baron | New York Daily News | August 21, 2023
Alternate links: CBC, The Weather Network, WNEWS247, VNExplorer, Yahoo!, Head Topics
New research on how to halt and reverse deforestation
Kalifi Ferretti-Gallon | Ekklesia | August 21, 2023
AUGUST 13–19
UBC researchers filter microplastics with plants (August 19, 7am)
Orlando Rojas | CKNW | August 19, 2023
The quest for an ancient collossus, in the wild rainforest of B.C.
Sally Aitken | Vancouver Sun | August 17, 2023
Alternate links: National Post, Yahoo!, National Observer, Times Colonist, Vancouver is Awesome, Richmond News, BurnabyNow, TriCity News, North Shore News, Pulse 107.7, and more.
UBC researchers working on natural filter for microplastics
Orlando Rojas, Marina Mehling | Vancouver Sun | August 16, 2023
Alternate links: City News, CKNW, The Province, Engineering & Technology Magazine, Waste and Recycling Magazine, US Today News, Canada News Media, New Atlas, Canada.com, Prince George Post, and more.
How smart are racoons? A UBC study hopes to find out by running an experiment in your backyard
Sarah Benson-Amram, Hannah Griebling | CTV News | August 15, 2023
Alternate links: iHeart Radio, Global News, C-FOX, Rock 101, Magic 106.1, 91.5 The Beat, Canada Today, CBC, Vancouver Sun, The Province, Radio-Canada, and more
B.C.’s drought woes could be helped by raising cost of water for companies, critics say
Younes Alila | The Globe and Mail | August 14, 2023
How dangerous climate conditions fueled Maui’s devastating wildfires
Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz | CBS News | August 14, 2023
Volunteer Your Backyard for UBC’s Trash Panda Intelligence Study
Hannah Griebling | Mirage News | August 14, 2023
AUGUST 6–12
‘Everything was burning’: More escapes, nightmare stories come out of Maui
Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz | Global News | August 11, 2023
Alternate links: CFOX, Rock 101
Wildfires sweep across Maui, causing evacuations and devastation
Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz | NNN | August 11, 2023
Hawaii wildfires: how did the deadly Maui fire start and what caused it?
Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz | The Guardian | August 11, 2023
Why Maui’s deadly wildfires spread so quickly
Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz | CBC | August 10, 2023
Global News, C-FOX, Rock 101
How Maui’s fire became deadly fast. Climate change, flash drought, invasive grass and more fueled it.
Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz | Associated Press | August 10, 2023
Alternate links: Washington Post, The Independent (UK), ABC News, Fox News, Now This, Fortune, Daily Mail, Star Tribune, Yahoo, Aol, Economic Times (India), and more
Flash drought, invasive grasses, winds, hurricane and climate change fuel Maui’s devastating fires
Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz | The Seattle Times | August 10, 2023
‘Nowhere is immune’: Maui’s devastating fires which have killed at the least 6 and destroyed a historic vacationer city are fueled by local weather change
Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz | New Orleans Local News | August 9, 2023
Researchers studying local frogs to learn impacts of wildlife relocation
Megan Winand | East Kootenay Now | August 8, 2023
Successfully managing forests must include stewarding the hidden life belowground
Cindy Prescott, Sue Grayston | The Conversation | August 7, 2023
Alternate links: Yahoo, Winnipeg Free Press
How fireweed offers hope amid B.C.’s worst wildfire summer on record
Lori Daniels | CBC | August 6, 2023
Alternate links: The Weather Network
Sneaking climate action into your summer block party
UBC Forestry | CBC What On Earth with Laura Lynch | August 6, 2023
JULY 30–AUGUST 5
‘We have to make sure the whole city is green’: How can we improve access to green spaces in Europe?
Cecil Konijnendijk | euronews.green | August 4, 2023
80% of B.C. rivers face high to extreme drought
John Richardson | Vancouver is Awesome | August 4, 2023
Alternate links: Times Colonist, Richmond News, Burnaby Now, TriCity News, Powell River Peak, Squamish Chief, Delta Optimist, New Westminster Record, Prince George Citizen
As emissions from wildfires soar, is the best way to protect forests more human intervention?
Gary Bull | The Globe and Mail | August 4, 2023
Alternate links: Castanet
In the news today: Challenging week ahead for crews battling B.C. wildfires
Younes Alila | Vancouver is Awesome | August 3, 2023
Alternate links: NanaimoNewsNOW, Rocky Mountain Outlook, EverythingGP, CKPG-TV (Prince George, BC), Battlefords Now, Winnipeg Free Press, The Reminder (Flin Flon), InnisfilToday, Squamish Chief, Bowen Island Undercurrent, Yahoo Canada, CollingwoodToday, NewmarketToday, Sudbury Northern Life, St. Albert Gazette, SooToday.com, North Shore News, HaltonHillsToday.ca, CambridgeToday, National Newswatch, petnews2day.com, MountainViewToday.ca, CFJC-TV (Kamloops, BC), Bradford News, MidlandToday, Pique NewsMagazine, Lethbridge Herald, Virden Empire-Advance, paNOW, Brandon Sun, Delta Optimist, MyMcMurray, The Prince George Citizen, westernwheel.ca, Timminstoday.com, Thompson Citizen, TownandCountryToday.com, rdnewsNOW, OrilliaMatters, Yahoo Movies Canada, ElliotLakeToday, Powell River Peak, Vernon Matters, Guelph Today, VNExplorer Network, Times Colonist, Yahoo Sports Canada, Tri-City News, Richmond News, northeastNOW, Penticton Herald, SaskToday.ca, iNFOnews, saskNOW.com, CHAT News Today, The Chronicle-Journal, ThoroldToday, Lethbridge News Now, National Post, BayToday.ca, Alaska Highway News, meadowlakeNOW, Moose Jaw Today, Kelowna Daily Courier, Barrie Today, New Westminster Record, Burnaby Now, larongeNOW, BurlingtonToday.com, cochraneeagle.ca, Sechelt / Gibsons Coast Reporter, PelhamToday, Airdrie City View, Lakeland Today, petnews2day.com
Clear-cut logging caused 84% flood size increase in B.C. creek: UBC
Younes Alila | Global News | August 2, 2023
Alternate links: CIMJ-FM, CFMI, CFOX, Global News
Clearcutting results in more flooding, says UBC researcher (FR)
Younes Alila | Radio-Canada | August 3, 2023
UBC research blames bigger floods on clear-cutting, calls for more selective logging
Younes Alila | CTV | August 3, 2023
Alternate links: Turtle Island News, Winnipeg Free Press, The Chronicle-Journal, Times Colonist, Tri-City News, North Shore News, CFJC, Tri-City News, New Westminster Record, Energeticcity.ca, TownandCountryToday.com, Vancouver is Awesome, MountainViewToday.ca, Calgary Herald, Alaska Highway News, Kelowna Daily Courier, CHEK-TV, Bowen Island Undercurrent, Yahoo Movies Canada, CKPG, National Post, The Globe and Mail, Pique NewsMagazine, Burnaby Now, iNFOnews, O Canada, Squamish Chief, The Peterborough Examiner, CFBT, Penticton Now, Virden Empire-Advance, NanaimoNewsNOW, Penticton Herald, PrinceGeorgeNow, Sechelt / Gibsons Coast Reporter, Yahoo Style Canada, Delta Optimist, Vancouver is Awesome, The Province, Kamloops Now, Yahoo Sports Canada, cochraneeagle.ca, Richmond News, westernwheel.ca, Opera News, Vancouver Sun, Powell River Peak, Vernon Matters, The Prince George Citizen, KelownaNow, VictoriaNow, Burnaby Now, Lakeland Today, Castanet News, castanetkamloops.net, Business in Vancouver
Researcher finds clear-cutting leads to bigger floods, urges more selective logging
Younes Alila | National Observer | August 3, 2023
UBC professor predicts increase flood risk
Younes Alila | CityNews | August 2, 2023
Clearcut logging found to lead to more frequent flooding, including extreme floods
Younes Alila | Tech and Science Post | August 2, 2023
Alternate links: Phys.org, Quick Telecast, Tech Codex, Knowledia, Ur All News, UBC News, Crumpe, EurekAlert!, Crumpa, ScienceDaily, Mirage News, News Concerns, News Leaflets
B.C. clear-cut logging makes 100-year flood 10 times more likely, study finds
Younes Alila | Vancouver is Awesome | August 2, 2023
Alternate links: Pique NewsMagazine, The Prince George Citizen, Tri-City News, Sechelt / Gibsons Coast Reporter, New Westminster Record, Burnaby Now, Powell River Peak, Richmond News, North Shore News, Delta Optimist, Squamish Chief, Times Colonist, Head Topics Canada, Sechelt / Gibsons Coast Reporter, New Westminster Record, Bowen Island Undercurrent, North Shore News, Alaska Highway News, Burnaby Now, castanetkamloops.net, Castanet News
B.C. can limit flooding by reducing clear-cutting: UBC scientist
Younes Alila | Alberni Valley News | August 2, 2023
Alternate links: Alberni Valley News, Campbell River Mirror, Saanich News, Abbotsford News, Lake Country Calendar, Houston Today, Ladysmith-Chemainus Chronicle, Courtenay / Comox Valley Record, Nanaimo News Bulletin, Duncan Cowichan Valley Citizen, Cloverdale Reporter, Revelstoke Times Review, Surrey Now-Leader, The Chilliwack Progress, Tofino-Ucluelet Westerly News, Chemainus Valley Courier, Hope Standard, Golden Star, Summerland Review, Oak Bay News, Terrace Standard, Kitimat, Northern Sentinel, The Morning Star (Vernon, BC), Haida Gwaii Observer, Trail Times, Sooke News Mirror, Fernie Free Press, Victoria News, Coast Mountain News, Rossland News, Quesnel, Cariboo Observer, North Thompson Times, Port Hardy, North Island Gazette, Nelson Star, Barriere Star Journal, The Similkameen Spotlight, Vancouver Island Free Daily, Agassiz-Harrison Observer, Cranbrook Daily Townsman, Fort St. James Caledonia Courier, The Northern View, Penticton Western News, Castlegar News, Langley Advance Times, Sidney, Peninsula News Review, Salmon Arm Observer, Ashcroft Cache Creek Journal, Vanderhoof, Omineca Express, North Delta Reporter, Eagle Valley News, Mission City Record, Peace Arch News, Creston Valley Advance, Nakusp, Arrow Lakes News, Goldstream News Gazette, Lake Cowichan Gazette, Williams Lake Tribune
Researchers are visualizing climate change through virtual reality
Isla Myers-Smith | APTN | August 1, 2023