"Looks a Lot Like Climate Change" [1]
"As global temperatures rise and the oceans warm, what used to be 500-year floods are now happening more frequently."

"As global temperatures rise and the oceans warm, what used to be 500-year floods are now happening more frequently."

Fire season is back, if it ever went away. And it's no longer a natural disaster story limited in geographic scope. Now it's a nationwide U.S. story touching on climate, money, politics, zoning, pollution and more. The latest Tipsheet runs down key information sources, plus what make a good peg for your local wildfire reporting.
"Unrelenting rain will drench the already saturated U.S. Midwest on Thursday and Friday, forecasters said, after floods in the region killed at least five people and forced residents in vulnerable areas to evacuate their flooded communities."
"A subsidiary of Petronas, the Malaysian state-owned petro giant courted by the B.C. government, has built at least 16 unauthorized dams in northern B.C. to trap hundreds of millions of gallons of water used in its controversial fracking operations."
"Bison calves have been born in Alberta's Banff National Park for the first time in 140 years, Parks Canada officials said on Tuesday, marking a milestone in attempts to reintroduce a wild herd to the area."
"Canada's food regulator has found traces of a controversial pesticide in nearly one-third of food products — and residue levels above the acceptable limits in about four per cent of grain products."
"Canada is warning the Trump administration that a "Buy American" plan for U.S. oil and gas pipelines could have an unexpected casualty: coal country."
"New climate change evidence from recent government studies could affect the coming legal fight over President Trump’s revived permit for the Keystone XL pipeline."
"With no rollback in Alberta tar sands production, Canada's emissions remain on an upward slope, a new report says."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/looks-lot-climate-change
[2] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change
[3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/disaster
[4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water
[5] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81
[6] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national
[7] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/canada
[8] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03052017/flooding-storms-climate-change-extreme-weather-missouri-arkansas
[9] https://www.sej.org/publications/tipsheet/wildfire-season-comes-earlier-bringing-broader-stories
[10] https://www.sej.org/category/sej-publication/tipsheet
[11] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/forests
[12] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/california
[13] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/mountain-west
[14] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast
[15] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southwest
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/rain-threatens-us-midwest-flooding-force-hundreds-homes
[17] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-weather-idUSKBN18014V
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/fracking-companies-build-dozens-unauthorized-dams-bc
[19] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws
[20] https://www.desmog.ca/2017/05/03/dam-big-problem-fracking-companies-build-dozens-unauthorized-dams-b-c-s-northeast
[21] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-ijnrs-great-bear-institute
[22] https://www.sej.org/category/event-type/workshops/fellowships
[23] https://www.sej.org/headlines/bison-calves-born-canadas-banff-natl-park-1st-time-140-years
[24] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/wildlife
[25] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-bison-calves-idUSKBN17R32P
[26] https://www.sej.org/headlines/canada-finds-glyphosate-one-third-food-products
[27] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/agriculture
[28] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics
[29] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health
[30] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/food
[31] http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/cfia-report-glyphosate-1.4070275
[32] https://www.sej.org/headlines/pipelines-america-first-may-put-coal-country-last
[33] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/business
[34] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy
[35] https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060052866
[36] https://www.sej.org/headlines/carbon-footprint-canadas-oil-sands-larger-thought
[37] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/science
[38] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04042017/tar-sands-greenhouse-gas-emissions-climate-change-keystone-xl-pipeline-donald-trump-enbridge
[39] https://www.sej.org/headlines/canadas-climate-change-policies-keep-its-paris-commitments-out-reach
[40] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28032017/justin-trudeau-canada-climate-change-paris-agreement
[41] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/canada?page=53
[42] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/canada?page=50
[43] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/canada?page=51
[44] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/canada?page=52
[45] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/canada?page=55
[46] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/canada?page=56
[47] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/canada?page=57
[48] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/canada?page=58
[49] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/canada?page=131