B.C. Climate News: Rising sea levels could put Vancouver’s airport underwater | Conserving watersheds can protect cities from floods | Canadians to spend more on food in 2025 as climate, Trump affect prices: report

Rising sea levels could put Vancouver International Airport at risk of flooding due to climate change.

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.

97 per cent of climate scientists agree that the climate is warming and that human beings are the cause.

A Canadian family of four can expect to spend $ 16,833.67 on food in 2025 — an increase of up to $801.56 from last year .

The rate of food price growth has moderated since the days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

B.C. Hydro announced it had received 21 applications from independent power producers proposing to supply up to 9,000 gigawatt hours per year of electricity to the utility — enough to power some 800,000 homes.

Negotiators working on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution won't reach an agreement and plan to resume the talks next year .

The International Court of Justice in The Hague will hear testimony from nearly 100 countries including Vanuatu , the Pacific island nation that initiated the effort to get a legal opinion.

Deforestation is the second -biggest source of carbon emissions after fossil fuels.