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Or sign-in if you have an account.A warmer than normal winter has left Metro Vancouver's mountains with a low snowpack. Photo by Arlen Redekop /PNGHere’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.Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada.Exclusive articles by top sports columnists Patrick Johnston, Ben Kuzma, J.J. Abrams and others. Plus, Canucks Report, Sports and Headline News newsletters and events.Unlimited online access to The Province and 15 news sites with one account.The Province ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on.Daily puzzles and comics, including the New York Times Crossword.Support local journalism.Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada.Exclusive articles by top sports columnists Patrick Johnston, Ben Kuzma, J.J. 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Plus, Canucks Report, Sports and Headline News newsletters and events.Unlimited online access to The Province and 15 news sites with one account.The Province ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on.Daily puzzles and comics, including the New York Times Crossword.Support local journalism.Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience.Access articles from across Canada with one account.Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments.Enjoy additional articles per month.Get email updates from your favourite authors.Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience.Access articles from across Canada with one accountShare your thoughts and join the conversation in the commentsEnjoy additional articles per monthGet email updates from your favourite authorsSign In or Create an AccountorCheck back every Saturday for more climate and environmental news or sign up for our Sunrise newsletter HERE.Recommended VideosIn climate news this week:• B.C. environmental groups sue federal government over alleged failure to protect southern mountain caribou • EPA to scrap landmark U.S. emissions policy in major rollback • As Trump shreds climate rules, China’s emissions start to fallHuman 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 atmosphere, increasing the planet’s surface temperature.The panel, which is made up of scientists from around the world, including researchers from B.C., has warned for decades that wildfires and severe weather, such as the province’s deadly heat dome and catastrophic flooding in 2021, would become more frequent and intense because of the climate emergency. It has issued a code red for humanity and warns the window to limit warming to 1.5 C above pre-industrial times is closing.According to NASA climate scientists, human activities have raised the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide content by 50 per cent in less than 200 years, and “there is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming at an unprecedented rate.”As of Feb. 5, 2026, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was 428.62 parts per million, up from 427.49 ppm last month and 426.46 in December, according to the latest available data from the NOAA measured at the Mauna Loa Observatory, a global atmosphere monitoring lab in Hawaii. The NOAA notes there has been a steady rise in CO2 from under 320 ppm in 1960. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere warms the planet, causing climate change. Human activities have raised the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide content by 50% in less than 200 years, according to NASA.Quick facts:• The global average temperature in 2023 reached 1.48 C higher than the pre-industrial average, according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. In 2024, it breached the 1.5 C threshold at 1.55 C. • 2025 was the third warmest on record after 2024 and 2023, capping the 11th consecutive warmest years. • Human activities have raised atmospheric concentrations of CO2 by nearly 49 per cent above pre-industrial levels starting in 1850. • The world is not on track to meet the Paris Agreement target to keep global temperature from exceeding 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels, the upper limit to avoid the worst fallout from climate change including sea level rise, and more intense drought, heat waves and wildfires. • UNEP’s 2025 Emissions Gap Report, released in early December, shows that even if countries meet emissions targets, global temperatures could still rise by 2.3 C to 2.5 C this century. • In June 2025, global concentrations of carbon dioxide exceeded 430 parts per million, a record high. • There is global scientific consensus that the climate is warming and that humans are the cause.Essential reading for hockey fans who eat, sleep, Canucks, repeat.By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder.The next issue of Canucks Report will soon be in your inbox.We encountered an issue signing you up. Please try again(Sources: United Nations IPCC, World Meteorological Organization, UNEP’s 2025 emissions gap report, NASA, Copernicus Climate Change Service, climatedata.ca) Source: NASALatest NewsEPA to scrap landmark U.S. emissions policy in major rollbackThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans this week to repeal a policy that provides the legal foundation for a raft of rules regulating greenhouse gas emissions, marking President Donald Trump’s most consequential retreat from the fight against climate change.A move to scrap the Obama-era endangerment finding, a 2009 scientific determination that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare, is expected as early as Wednesday, according to a person familiar with the details. The policy underpins rules including federal emissions standards for cars and trucks.“This amounts to the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin was quoted as telling the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the planned timing.The EPA sent a proposal to the Office of Management and Budget last month and a “final rule will be published once it has completed interagency review,” the agency said in a statement, referring to the endangerment finding as “one of the most damaging decisions in modern history.” The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.A decision to repeal the finding has been anticipated for months after the EPA first proposed doing so in July, and is seen as laying the groundwork for a further unwinding of climate protections in the US. Trump’s White House last month completed a new withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, and exited several prominent United Nations bodies working on the issue, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.Read the full story here.—Bloomberg NewsStorm Nils hits Western Europe with power outages and floodsStorm Nils is battering Western Europe, cutting power to 900,000 households in France and forcing flood evacuations as the region endures another round of extreme weather.The storm system is forecast to bring torrential rain and winds topping 150 kilometres per hour to southern France, the equivalent of a Category 1 hurricane. Authorities have issued red weather warnings for Northern Spain, southwest France and Sardinia, while avalanche risks are at their highest level in parts of the French Alps.Following a series of storms in late-January, a southerly jet stream is funnelling warm, moist air from the Atlantic, feeding an unusually relentless string of atmospheric rivers into Iberia an