B.C. climate news: Study finds emissions from world’s largest fossil fuel producers ramping up heat waves | B.C. orders some farmers to stop using water to protect chinook salmon

Here’s the latest news concerning climate change and biodiversity loss in B.C. and around the world, from the steps leaders are taking to address the problems, to all the up-to-date science.

• Study finds emissions from world’s largest fossil fuel producers ramping up intensity of heat waves

• B.C. orders some farmers to stop using water to protect endangered chinook salmon

• Study estimates 2023 Canadian wildfire smoke caused more than 80,000 deaths globally

• Languishing ‘in the doldrums’: Conservation groups demand action on B.C.’s old-growth logging review

Human activities like burning fossil fuels and farming livestock are the main drivers of climate change, according to the UN’s intergovernmental panel on climate change. This causes heat-trapping greenhouse gas levels in Earth’s