Will 2023 be the hottest year on record? Scientists believe several factors, including the return of El Niño, may contribute to warmer temperatures.

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Wondering if summers have become hotter (and smokier!) than they were when you were little? You’re not imagining it: extreme heat events are increasing due to climate change. Here’s how we can face this new reality.

Leah Payne is a writer, author, and editor based in Vancouver, BC. She is the author of <a href="https://www.orcabook.com/Get-Outside-P7924">Get Outside!</a> and <a href="https://www.orcabook.com/Less-Is-More">Less is More</a>. (Headshot credit: Notting Hill Photography). 
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Heather Burt bicycles to Langara College, where she teaches literature and writing. Her novel <a href="http://amzn.to/2CLt0mE">Adam's Peak</a> (Dundurn Press, 2007) was shortlisted for the 2008 BC Book Prizes.

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“If one could make it across the Northwest [Passage] in a single season, in a rowboat, it would scream to the profound effects climate change is having on the Arctic,” writes Kevin Vallely in the opening pages of his new book.

Rowing the Northwest Passage: A Testament to Climate Change | alive

Susan Laws Nicholls is a retired nurse and educator, rower, paddle-boarder, cook, gardener, grandmother, reader, movie-lover, sewer, friend, and knitter.

Arctic Sea Ice

Concerned about climate change? Many of us are. But if those concerns balloon to the point of overwhelm, ecophobia might be the culprit.

Ecophobia: What Is It, and Why Is It on the Rise? | alive

Deena Kara Shaffer, PhD, is a learning specialist and lecturer at Ryerson University, co-creator of the Thriving in Action initiative, and owner of Awakened Learning, resilience-based educational coaching and consulting.

Climate Change

Suman Gupta enjoys engaging Canadians on issues involving biodiversity, wildlife conservation, and citizen science. She has been a contributor to alive magazine since 2011.

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Ethan Ribalkin is a freelance journalist in North Vancouver. Hes written for television news, magazines, newspapers, and online publications.

Sandi Gauvin is a senior editor at alive.

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Sandi Gauvin is a senior editor and Crystal Auffray is an editorial intern for alive magazine.

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Mark Tushingham, PhD, PEng, is an environmental scientist and author of two cautionary novels on climate change: Hotter than Hell (DreamCatcher Publishing, 2005) and its upcoming sequel, Hell on Earth.

Global warming

Barbara Yaffe is a columnist at the Vancouver Sun. Her column is read across Canada in CanWest newspapers.

Making it personal

Holli Smith owes her environmental consciousness to her daughter.

Will Canada keep its climate change commitments?

Lucretia Schanfarber researches and writes on health topics. She lives simply and gardens organically on Quadra and Cortes Islands with her husband.

Green Living

Can we turn back the doomsday clock?

Ann-Marie Metten is a Vancouver-based freelance writer and former assistant editor at alive.

Climate Change

Will 2023 Be the Hottest Year on Record?

Living with Extreme Heat

Tree Hugging In The New Millennium

Rowing Through Melting Sea Ice

Ecophobia

Permafrost: Not So Permanent

Get Involved: Earth Hour March 29

Good and Bad News for North American Crop Diversity

Wildlife Wednesday: Ringed Seal

Will Climate Change Threaten Our Beloved Maple Syrup? It's Hard to Tell

Generation X Cool With Climate Change?

Melting Arctic Sea Ice

Another Consequence of Carbon Dioxide in the Oceans: Sick Fish

Christmas 2030 - Will Climate Change Spell the End of Traditions?

Deadline to act before irreversible climate change: 2017

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The Power of Passion

Climate Change

Addressing the World's Hottest Issue

Fuel for Thought

We're Not Crying Wolf

Keeping Up with Kyoto

Ticking Time Bomb

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