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Rich countries agree to fund disaster recovery at climate conference

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NASA’s new satellite is here to help the planet

In the wee hours of yesterday morning, NASA launched JPSS-2—its newest satellite, which will join a global observation system that analyzes the Earth’s weather patterns. 
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Climate conference checks the to-do list

This year’s UN climate conference, COP27, is underway in Egypt, with leaders from 120 countries gathering to talk climate change—but with little progress made on promises from last year’s summit and energy in short supply, there’s unlikely to be much appetite for big commitments. 

Why it matters: While previous COP conferences have produced headline-grabbing pledges to limit emissions, discussions this year will focus on actually achieving some of those goals.
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Detecting wildfires with AI

From the same company that brought you the “how busy is the bus I’m currently sitting on,” Google is expanding its life-saving features of wildfire detection and flood forecasting tools.   
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The pandemic crushed math scores

About half of Ontario students are not meeting the provincial math standards of a B grade, according to the province’s Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO). 
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Better lithium mining

Vancouver-based International Battery Metals (IBAT) is proving that sometimes companies with comically non-descript names can still do some pretty exciting things.
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Troops deployed in wake of Fiona’s “total devastation”

Canadian troops arrived in Nova Scotia to help clean up in the wake of Fiona, a hurricane-strength post-tropical storm that swept through the region over the weekend. 

Catch up: The storm left more than half a million people in Atlantic Canada without power on Saturday, and 344,000 outages were still being reported as of Sunday (including almost the entirety of Prince Edward Island), according to PowerOutage.com.
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Canada needs to step up its environmental game

A new climate coalition filled with insurance companies, disaster experts, Indigenous groups and municipalities is calling the federal government’s new climate goals ‘‘vague and distant”.
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Canada’s corporate climate clunker

Okay, so Canada’s fallen behind on EV adoption. But let’s look at another area of the climate fight: Curbing corporate emissions. We must be leading at that, right?

*Looks at a new report on corporate emissions* Oh c’mon!  
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Canada’s pulling up the rear in the EV race

Almost half of Canadians want their next car to be an EV, which might be a big ask as the country falls behind in the race to electrify the roads.   
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