Climate Change
ACT ED contributes to CBC Kids News wildfire resources
ACT Executive Director Deborah Harford is proud to have contributed to a recent CBC Kids News article on the connection between Canada’s wildfires and climate change with other field experts Jean Andrey, professor and dean of the faculty of environment at the University of Waterloo, Ellen Whitman, forest fire research assistant with Natural Resources Canada, and Bob Gray, fire ecologist.
The article contains a mix of graphics, pictures, maps, and other visual explanations of how wildfires work, and how wildfire seasons are becoming longer and more intense. The hotter summers experienced in British Columbia result in longer fire seasons, drier wildland fuel, hotter fires, and more smoke and released greenhouse gases. The article is suitable for kids of all ages.