By Gazette Staff
January 18th, 2026
BURLINGTON, ON
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Our roads, sidewalks, buildings, shipping canals, dams and agricultural practices have eliminated many natural landscape features that would otherwise slow rainwater’s path across the land and absorb it deeply underground. Stormwater systems are too outdated and undersized to handle the new normal of rain events.
Melting icebergs accelerate climate change by reducing Earth’s reflectivity (albedo), causing the darker ocean to absorb more solar heat, triggering a self-reinforcing warming cycle. This also destabilizes ocean currents and polar vortex, affecting global weather, disrupting fisheries, and adding freshwater to oceans, raising sea levels and potentially altering ocean chemistry.
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