In mountainous environments, logging can hasten snowmelt, leading to larger floods.
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Global warming poses great challenges to Canada’s wine industry. But in these challenges lie equally great opportunities to build a better, and more sustainable, wine industry.
Canada is wasting resources, and legitimacy, conserving species that are not endangered elsewhere. Transparent cross-border considerations should inform all new conservation laws.
Natural hazards like wildfires are adding yet more challenges to the difficulties many migrant workers face.
As wildfires continue to edge closer to towns and agricultural areas, grape producers and wine-makers in the Okanagan must once again deal with this increasingly frequent threat of smoke taint.
Do you turn to a wine expert to help you chose your bottle of wine? Wine experts may have different evaluations depending on the school of thought in which they were trained.
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Professor, Department of Forest Resources Management, University of British Columbia
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Forest Resources Management, University of British Columbia
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PhD Candidate, Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia
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Assistant Professor, Sociology, Athabasca University
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Professor of Environmental Humanities, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, University of British Columbia
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Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of British Columbia
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Agronomy Consultant, B.C. Centre for Agritech Innovation, Simon Fraser University
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