Temperatures rising faster in Canada than just about anywhere on EarthDrought in British Columbia's rain forest. Prairie rivers running dry. Storms leaving trails of multimillion-dollar damage in Eastern Canada.
The climate has changed. The insurance industry knows it. So do savvy municipal managers and scientists amassing evidence showing temperatures are rising and impacting everything from ski conditions to wheat harvests.
"Climate change affects every Canadian and every activity we're engaged in, there's not one activity that's immune," says Don MacIver, Environment Canada's director of adaptation and impact research.
Temperatures are climbing faster in parts of Canada than almost anywhere on Earth. Permafrost and glaciers are melting, and the country has been hit by a series of storms, droughts and heat waves of unprecedented intensity.
Insects and fires are destroying vast tracts of Canada's forests. More than 300 blazes were burning in bone-dry northwestern Ontario this fall. And the mountain pine beetle, which has thrived in a succession of warm winters, has infested more than eight million hectares of B.C. forest, leaving a swath of dead trees that is visible from space.
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