Prairie Floods and Nunavut Land Rejections Stall Climate Adaptation
July 6, 2026
Overland flooding in Manitoba and the rejection of the Nunavut land-use plan demonstrate how failing physical and regulatory infrastructures are stranding patients and Indigenous communities during climate volatility. As the UK grapples with the 'cooling divide' and the UN warns of intensifying El Niño cycles, the tension between industrial resource extraction and agroecological survival is being decided by state actors who prioritize market logic over the material resilience of the commons.
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Overland flooding washes out roads, damages homes across the Prairies
Emergency teams worked into the early hours on Thursday to make sure an expectant mother, a cardiac patient and others were transferred to health facilities across Manitoba after rapid rain and flooding closed the only medical centre in the western city of Dauphin.
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Slowdown of AMOC ocean current may be gradual and reversible
Scientists worry that a surge of meltwater from Greenland could irreversibly collapse the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, but new modelling suggests the weakening of the current could be reversed if CO2 levels come back down
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Years in the making, massive plan to guide land and water use in Nunavut rejected
A massive plan to formally guide where, how and when land and water can be used in Canada's easternmost territory has been rejected by the federal and Nunavut governments, as well as a group representing Inuit in the territory.
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The cooling divide: how air conditioning is creating a new climate inequality
For decades, people in the UK tended to view air conditioning as something that belonged elsewhere. It was associated with office buildings, hotels and hotter countries rather than their own homes. But as summers become warmer and heatwaves more frequent, that picture is beginning to change. Colleag…
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70 years on from the killer smog: what clean air laws teach us about power, pollution and profit
MagicBones/Shutterstock Seventy years ago, London choked. For five days in December 1952, a toxic smog smothered the city. Visibility collapsed. Transport failed. Thousands died. It was not a natural disaster. It was the product of policy failure. Out of that catastrophe came one of the most importa…
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UN warns likelihood of ‘extreme weather events’ as El Nino set to intensify
World Meteorological Organization forecasts more likelihood of heatwaves, droughts and heavy rainfall due to El Nino.
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Your morning coffee is killing the planet
Coffee farms take a heavy toll on wildlife and the climate, as seen recently with deforestation in Vietnam. But the food you eat is causing even more damage.
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Washington reflecting pool saga is just the latest example of man trying to dominate nature – and losing
US President Donald Trump’s “restoration” of the reflecting pool that stretches between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument has been dogged by questions over cost and now by the president’s claims it has been vandalised. This failure to bend nature to his will has been described as an “…
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