Xander Wang News Today

Xander Wang, a researcher at UPEI's School of Climate Change and Adaptation, was just awarded $1.65 million for his project that aims to reduce the impact of climate change on the agriculture industry. He sat down with CBC News: Compass host Louise Martin to discuss his work.

Irrigation is relatively uncommon on P.E.I. farms, but that may have to change if Island farmers want to continue to grow potatoes, says Xander Wang, director of the Climate Smart Lab at UPEI.

In the year since Fiona struck the Island, UPEI's School of Climate Change and Adaptation has seen a big jump in inquiries from waterfront property owners as well as potential buyers wondering about the risk level — and what they can do to lower it.  

Houses blown away. No power for weeks. Landmarks crumbling into the ocean. PEI survived its worst, most expensive storm with Fiona. It won't be the last

In Nova Scotia, all eyes are on the Coastal Protection Act, which will decide where it's safe to build new homes and buildings along the shoreline of the province as sea levels rise and climate change contributes to greater erosion and flooding.

American and Canadian climate change researchers are on P.E.I. this week to consider some of the complex issues raised by the impact of post-tropical storm Fiona on the Island.

With the arrival of spring, researchers and biologists are getting back outside to survey damage from post-tropical storm and figure out what comes next.

A week into the Prince Edward Island election campaign, there has been plenty of talk about health care and housing. But after post-tropical storm Fiona pounded the Island last fall and heightened fears about rising seas, some observers are questioning why climate change is not front and centre on the campaign trail.

STANLEY BRIDGE, P.E.I. — A week into the Prince Edward Island election campaign, there has been plenty of talk about health care and housing.

STANLEY BRIDGE, P.E.I. - A week into the Prince Edward Island election campaign, there has been plenty of talk about health care and housing. But after post-tropical storm Fiona pounded the Island last fall and heightened fears about rising seas, some observers are questioning why climate change is not front and centre on the campaign trail.