Wildfire expert Dr. Mike Flannigan says predicting this year's fire season is challenging, but ongoing drought on the Prairies and a growing El Niño pattern…
The above-seasonal conditions in Alberta have some emergency services on alert as the warm and dry conditions create an increased risk of wildfires and grassfires.…
While Canada has a system in place to get aircraft and other firefighting resources to areas in need, the centre tasked with co-ordinating those requests…
High temperatures, a dry climate and high winds created the perfect conditions for fire in Lytton in 2021. "Fire is opportunistic, it's probing, it's searching…
After questions from The Tyee, Canada's Transportation Safety Board reversed a decision to keep its wildfire-related files - including some discussing its 2021 Lytton Creek fire…
As climate change intensifies, the need to address the risks and threats from wildfires is urgent. TRU understands this urgency and has prioritized research in…
A new report from the University of Waterloo’s Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation offers practical guidance to help Canadians living in forested and grassland regions to…
Across Canada, academic researchers are working on practical solutions to reduce global warming and build resilient communities. Dr. Mike Flannigan, BC's first fire science research…
Aviation staff at the BC Wildfire Service will be offered night vision training, which will allow them to conduct helicopter operations in the dark. Wildfire…
After Canada's worst wildfire season on record, forestry and wildfire experts are turning to modelling and satellites as an increasingly important tool. While in early…
Alberta is at the start of a five-year contract to trial a nighttime wildfire fighting helicopter. Wildfire expert Dr. Mike Flannigan says the helicopter could…
TRU has joined a newly formed climate-resiliency alliance, with the goal of making one of the largest power grids in North America more resilient to…
KAMLOOPS – Thompson Rivers University (TRU) is among a group of research institutions that have joined the newly created U.S.-Canada Centre on Climate-Resilient Western Interconnected…
Dr. Michael Mehta, professor of geography and environmental studies, is giving away HEPA air filtration units to help ensure those in need have clean, safe…
Wildfire researcher Dr. Mike Flannigan says the area of forested land in BC is so large that reducing the fire risk across all of it…
In BC, more area has been burned by wildfires in the last seven years than in the previous 58 years, and the province has recorded…
There are experts who say the primary tool for measuring air quality in Canada, the Air Quality Health Index, fails to capture the true danger…
Endless evacuations, unimaginable smoke and heat, 45 million acres burned — is this the nation’s new normal? Wildfire expert Dr. Mike Flannigan provides insight. Read more
Wildfire researcher Dr. Jill Harvey says while this season’s wildfires were historic, scientists like her are not surprised as they’ve been monitoring a disturbing trend…
TRU's Kamloops campus could become home to a new centre of excellence in wildfire research. Wildfire expert Dr. Mike Flannigan and VP of Research Dr.…
