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Space News Details on the solar eclipse and other astronomy highlights for April Apr 1 Astronomy Highlights for March 2024 Mar 1 NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Sustains Damage Jan 28 Several planets visible in the night sky this month Jan 3 December Astronomy Highlights Dec 1, 2023 November Astronomy Highlights Nov 2, 2023 Orionids meteor shower peaks tonight Oct 21, 2023 2023 Annular Eclipse: Who will see what? Oct 14, 2023 Astronomy highlights this month features a solar eclipse Oct 2, 2023 Canada to receive asteroid sample Sep 25, 2023

There are currently two out of control wildfires in British Columbia. One is the Burgess Creek Wildfire located 5 kilometres northwest of Ben Lake. This fire is about 1,800 hectares in size. There is another fire G40163, that is 0.2 hectares in size and is at the Intersection of Telegraph and Kluskuz FSR. In northeastern British Columbia the fire risk is high meaning there is a serious risk of fire starting. Forest fuels are very dry and extreme caution must be used.

Under new federal regulations, producers will need to take more responsibility for the plastic they put on the market. The Government of Canada announced the new Federal Plastics Registry, a tool to compel plastic producers and other companies across the plastics value chain to help monitor and track plastic from the time it is produced up to its end of life. The Registry requires plastic resin manufacturers, producers of plastic products, and service providers to report each year on the quantity and types of plastic they put on the Canadian market and how that plastic moves through the economy. The categories covered by the Registry include packaging, single-use and disposable products, construction, transportation, electronics and electrical equipment, tires, textiles and apparel, fishing and aquaculture equipment, and agriculture and horticulture equipment.

We only have one Earth, and today we celebrate Earth Day. Earth Day is an event to demonstrate support for environmental protection. The official theme for 2024 is "Planet vs. Plastics." Earthday.org has called for a 60% global reduction in plastic production by 2040. In November 2023, earthday.org released its report Babies vs. Plastics, which collated some of the latest science on the subject. The Guardian newspaper carried an Op Ed about the report highlighting that it is the children of the Global South who are being the most impacted by exposure to microplastics. Governments and NGOs from around the world will gather in Ottawa to continue negotiating the terms of the United Nations Global Plastic Treaty this Earth Day. History The first Earth Day was in 1970. The first Canadian Earth Day was held on September 11, 1980. It was organized by Paul Tinari, then a graduate student in Engineering Physics/Solar Engineering at Queen's University. Former Secretary of State for External Affairs and MP Flora MacDonald, officially opened Earth Day Week on September 6, 1980, with a ceremonial tree planting and encouraged MPs and MPPs across the country to declare a cross-Canada annual Earth Day. The principal activities taking place on the first Earth Day included educational lectures given by experts in various environmental fields, garbage and litter pick-up by students along city roads and highways, and tree plantings to replace the trees killed by Dutch elm disease.