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Good afternoon, and welcome to Globe Climate, a newsletter about climate change, environment and resources in Canada.

I’m Kate, the agriculture and food policy reporter. Sierra is lost in the woods somewhere. On purpose, I believe. I’ll be filling in this week until she makes her prodigal return. I’ve got some good news about kelp forests and humanity’s search for life (and hope) wherever it can be found. We’ve also got some stuff about investing in pipelines, and how to understand Canadian identity through literature.

Without further ado...

1. Resource Riches: Alberta records unexpected $8.3-billion surplus off higher resource royalties
2. B.C. Supreme Court: Prince Rupert Gas Transmission project’s regulatory approval faces challenge in B.C. Supreme Court
3. Architourism: A look at the $30-billion eco-friendly neighbourhood being built in Toronto over three decades
4. Beach Cleaner: Is that a Zamboni? On a beach? No, it’s BeBot, Canada’s first beach-cleaning robot
5. Photo essay: Brazil’s depleted jungle rivers make midwives even more essential when the water breaks
6. Photo essay: In Ireland’s peat bogs, rural traditions and EU climate laws are mired in conflict
7. Design: When it comes to climate change, Canada needs more resilient outdoor spaces. Indigenous landscape architecture can help
8. Oceans: How have Canada and the U.S. tried to save North Atlantic right whales? A timeline of policies and politics

For this week’s deeper dive, an excerpt from a story about hope in the face of heartbreak, from our happiness reporter by Erin Anderssen.

Canadian marine ecologist Karen Filbee-Dexter has grieved for a celebrated kelp forest scorched into extinction by a summer heat wave in St. Margaret’s Bay, Nova Scotia.

She’s also discovered five-meter-tall sugar kelp flourishing under the ice in Canada‘s Arctic where such a forest was not expected to exist.

The cost of climate change has broken her heart. And the remarkable resilience of nature has patched it up again.

This is how it goes when you study the vulnerable life under an ocean we still barely understand. The damaged-yet-resilient sea makes you weep then laugh, fear then hope. Tossed in the waves, Dr. Filbee-Dexter says, you keep researching and publishing and hoping for stronger action.

Being part of the solution, even in a small way, “is an easier way to get up in the morning.”

Last November, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, Dr. Filbee-Dexter sat in a session, cuddling her five-month old daughter. A researcher was explaining a chart projecting the life-altering rise of global temperatures to 2100. Looking down at Ida, she realized her daughter would turn 75 that year. In that moment, her calling become personal, forever shaped by a mother’s responsibility.

“You want the world to be a good place for her, and you’re going to do everything in your power to make that happen.” Read more here.

• Climate advocates say oil and gas representation on pension fund boards could be problematic
• Fossil fuel subsidies review stalls as Argentina ceased communication with Canada
• Israel-Iran war highlights Asia’s reliance on Middle East oil
• Alberta surpasses natural gas flaring ceiling for second year in a row as province eliminates limit
• Two First Nations setting up encampment near proposed bridge to Ring of Fire
• Toronto to review gaps in city’s heat strategy at Mayor Olivia Chow’s request

Marsha Lederman: We need to cool it: In our warming world, we deserve temperature safety

Roseann Runte: As we ponder the Canadian identity, literature can be our road map