Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Patrick White
Publication Date: February 6, 2025 - 05:00
Robotic dogs, drones and microsatellites could be the future of fighting wildfires
February 6, 2025
Rather than manned fire towers, strings of low-orbit microsatellites will scour every inch of the Earth’s surface for signs of fire.Instead of aerial water bombers, swarms of heavy-lift drones will douse flames with chemical retardants.And in place of human smokejumpers carrying pickaxes, robotic dogs will pack cannons capable of snuffing infernos with high-intensity infrasound waves.
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The City of Calgary is considering microtunnelling to twin the Bearspaw Feeder Main, to reduce disruptions of future repairs on the line which ruptured last year.
February 12, 2025 - 20:56 | Adam MacVicar | Global News - Canada
Carney addressed President Donald Trump's plan to make Canada the 51st state as well as his ongoing tariff threats.
February 12, 2025 - 20:52 | Victoria Femia | Global News - Canada
British Columbia is seeing “peaking influenza activity” even as other respiratory illnesses such as RSV and COVID-19 are in decline, and health officials are reminding people to get vaccinated.The BC Centre for Disease Control says influenza A infections remain high and continue to increase, with the percentage of tests returning positive up to 24 per cent in the week ending Feb. 1.That figure is more than double that of the 11.7 per cent reported between Dec. 22 and Dec. 28.
February 12, 2025 - 20:35 | | The Globe and Mail
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