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Video game explores the effects of climate change on Delta (Vancity Buzz)

“For all too long, it seemed no one did anything about climate change.”

This is the voice of a female narrator – coming through the speakers of my Macbook Pro – after launching Future Delta 2.0, a video game about climate change.

“One by one, companies folded, and people lost their jobs,” the voice chronicles, “the once thriving industrial area became flood prone and polluted.”

Shaw TV’s ‘Go! West Coast’ series

‘Future Delta 2.0’ is an educational video game developed by a team of UBC researchers. Reporter Jen Muranetz heads to Delta Secondary School where a group of students are testing out the game.

Delta develops video game partnership with UBC (Surrey Now)

As important as the issue may be, it can sometimes be hard to get students to care about science and the environment. For some, the traditional method of textbooks, lectures and tests just don’t seem to get the subject matter to stick.

But in the Delta school district they’re trying to engage students using something youth naturally gravitate towards, video games.

Video game introduces kids to climate change (Delta Optimist)

A new video game developed by scientists at UBC hopes to make climate change planning a fun and engaging activity for local communities and residents.

CALP on Global TV News

Temperatures across the province have been above average this winter resulting in a lower than normal snowpack on many mountains across B.C. Of the 53 ski runs on Cypress Mountain, only nine were open on Monday and much of the snow on the slopes was man-made. And experts say it’s a question of when, not if, we will see an end to a regular ski season on our coastal mountains.