File photo of a youth climate rally. Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN /AFP/Getty Images Article content Here’s the latest news concerning climate change and biodiversity loss, from the steps leaders are taking to address the problems to all the most up to date science. Article content Article content In climate news this week: • Canadian youth climate case will go to trial in Vancouver in 2026 • Lions Bay was warned in 2022 climate change would bring more landslides, debris flows • Vancouver among Canadian cities losing weeks of wintry days • Global warming can’t be ignored, Montana’s top court says, upholding landmark climate case Trending B.C. mayor gets calls from across Canada about ‘crazy’ plan to recruit doctors As hundreds of derelict buildings sit empty, Vancouver is tasked with solving ‘frustrating’ problem Woman evicted from parents’ co-op in Delta will get human rights tribunal hearing Ex-NDP MLA Selina Robinson’s memoir skewers David Eby, is dedicated to John Horgan Lions Bay was warned in 2022 climate change would bring more landslides, debris flows Article content Human activities like burning fossil fuels and farming livestock are the main drivers of climate change, according to the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This causes heat-trapping greenhouse gas levels in Earth’s atmosphere, increasing the planet’s surface temperature. The panel, which is made up of scientists from around the world, has warned for decades that wildfires and severe weather, such as B.C.’s deadly heat dome and catastrophic flooding in 2021, would become more frequent and more intense because of the climate emergency. It has issued a code red for humanity and warns the window to limit warming to 1.5 C above pre-industrial times is closing. According to NASA climate scientists , human activities have raised the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide content by 50 per […]