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20749

Environmental | 207493 hits | 12:43 PM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

Climate change is having a widespread effect on lakes across the Northern Hemisphere, a new study has found, and it has widespread impacts, including affecting water quality.

20741

Environmental | 207414 hits | 10:24 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

2020 was a year of unremitting extreme climate events, from heat waves to wildfires to hurricanes, many of which scientists have directly linked to human-caused climate change (SN: 8/27/20). Each event has taken a huge toll in lives lost and damages incur

20749

Environmental | 207496 hits | 8:01 AM on Monday | posted by uwish

Today’s Swedish climate is well within the range of variability. But she’s young, and hopefully someday she’ll wake up to the hoax and realize she’s bei

20744

Environmental | 207440 hits | 10:46 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look back at 20 years of climate policy in Canada and talk to the country's climate minister, Jonathan Wilkinson.

20767

Environmental | 207679 hits | 9:46 PM on Thursday | posted by uwish

The surface temperatures for the Greenland ice sheet have been known to warm 8 to 16°C “within decades or less” – yes, fewer than 10 years – due to “unforced oscillations.” In other words, no external forcing mechanism is required for these

20742

Environmental | 207417 hits | 5:28 PM on Thursday | posted by uwish

A large swath of the U.S. Northeast was blanketed in snow by the first major storm of the season, which smashed a decades-old snowfall record in Pennsylvania.

20757

Environmental | 207575 hits | 4:49 AM on Tuesday | posted by uwish

A wealth of new research in glacier and sea ice extent show modern Iceland is 2-4°C colder than all of the last 8000 years except for a slightly colder late 19th century. Even the 1700s were warmer with less ice than today in and around Iceland

20752

Environmental | 207522 hits | 11:16 PM on Wednesday | posted by uwish

If we look further at the statistics for global tropical storm activity from expert Dr. Ryan Maue here, we here as well see no significant trend in major hurricanes since 1992.

20740

Environmental | 207403 hits | 11:10 PM on Wednesday | posted by uwish

Pages 21 to 45 of a new Springer book entitled Assessment of Climate Change over the Indian Region and authored by 12 Indian meteorologists (Sanjay et al., 2020) assesses the temperature changes for India as a whole throughout the last few centuries. A

20738

Environmental | 207383 hits | 11:08 PM on Wednesday | posted by uwish

Willis Island, a tiny mound of coral rubble some 450 Km E. of Cairns in the Coral Sea, is a rare and valuable exception It is about 500 metres long, 150 metres wide, up to 9 metres in height and 8 hectares in area. A meteorological station was establishe

20698

Environmental | 206978 hits | 2:50 PM on Monday | posted by uwish

It is remarkable that the world has been convinced that one of its most pristine ecosystems is on its last legs. The science behind this claim is wrong ... but no-one wants to remedy the problem.

20759

Environmental | 207585 hits | 7:01 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

Approximately four dozen protesters � including local representatives of the B.C. Liberal and Green parties � rallied outside the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations office in Prince George, B.C., Thursday, demanding the provincial

20766

Environmental | 207664 hits | 7:56 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

The federal government says it's investing $20 million in the nuclear industry to help Canada meet its target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

20752

Environmental | 207517 hits | 9:16 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

Water in southern Alberta's Milk River could soon be flowing at full capacity again, after it was on the verge of drying up completely.

20696

Environmental | 206964 hits | 8:05 AM on Friday | posted by uwish

By Paul Homewood According to the Met Office, global warming is leading to record breaking fires in North America. Canada, of course, is a large part of North America, so surely fires should be getting worse there too. In fact wildfires this year are runn

20747

Environmental | 207470 hits | 7:43 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

Southern Alberta farmers are hauling in one of the best harvests in recent memory this fall, easing the sting of previous years' poor crops and giving the�

20764

Environmental | 207644 hits | 9:53 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

The world�s first shipment of blue ammonia is on its way from Saudi Arabia to Japan, where it will be used in power stations to produce electricity without carbon emissions.Saudi Aramco, which made the announcement Sunday, produced the fuel, which it does

20731

Environmental | 207311 hits | 6:48 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

The Nunavut government has imposed a total allowable harvest on the Dolphin and Union caribou herd after a survey showed the population had plummeted from 18,000 to 4,000.

20736

Environmental | 207355 hits | 6:45 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Hundreds of pilot whales are stranded on a sandbar in Tasmania, an island off the southern coast of Australia.

20726

Environmental | 207264 hits | 6:44 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Warming in the Arctic shrank the ice covering the polar ocean this year to its second-lowest extent in four decades, scientists announced Monday, yet another sign of how climate change is rapidly transforming the region.

20676

Environmental | 206761 hits | 6:42 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Investigators say the mysterious deaths of 330 elephants in Botswana were caused by toxic blooms of cyanobacteria, a dangerous phenomenon that has been increasing worldwide because of climate change.

20675

Environmental | 206747 hits | 9:31 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

The world's richest 10% were responsible for more than half of cumulative carbon emissions in the quarter-century to 2015, according to new estimates. Oxfam International and the Stockholm Environment Institute made the claim in a new report published

20718

Environmental | 207177 hits | 8:26 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

Growth in Alberta's renewable energy sector should continue to trend upwards, experts say, with one forecast expecting that a surge of projects could have the province poised to lead the nation in utility-scale wind and solar capacity as early as 2025.

20678

Environmental | 206777 hits | 7:14 AM on Monday | posted by uwish

Using satellite technology, NASA determined that between 2003 and 2019, global fires have dropped by roughly 25 percent. This makes the �climate change is worsening wildfires� argument completely moot. A series of follow-on sensors called the Visible Inf

20714

Environmental | 207142 hits | 12:09 PM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

The world's largest tropical wetland is not supposed to burn. And yet, Brazil's Pantanal is on fire. Some 25,000 square kilometres have already been destroyed, and experts say it's going to get worse.

20726

Environmental | 207257 hits | 7:32 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

Victoria Morris has had her fair share of orca encounters, but nothing quite like this.

20721

Environmental | 207212 hits | 7:18 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

The Alberta Wilderness Association says that southern mountain woodland caribou populations in Jasper National Park are dangerously low, and are calling on Parks Canada to intervene.

20719

Environmental | 207187 hits | 5:59 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

An NPR and PBS Frontline investigation reveals how the oil and gas industry used the promise of recycling to sell more plastic, even when they knew it would never work on a large scale.

20687

Environmental | 206874 hits | 1:08 PM on Tuesday | posted by Scape

David Legates, a longtime climate change skeptic, has been appointed by the Trump administration to help run the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agency charged with producing "much of the climate research funded" by the govern

20720

Environmental | 207194 hits | 8:04 AM on Monday | posted by Robair

The B.C. Wildfire service is not only fighting fires but boosting relations between the U.S. and Canada. The wildfire service has been assisting its American counterparts with a large wildfire that broke out just south of the national border, providing

20725

Environmental | 207245 hits | 7:44 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

A big chunk of Greenland's ice cap, estimated to be some 110 square kilometres has broken off in the far north east Arctic which scientists say is evidence of rapid climate change.

20737

Environmental | 207366 hits | 11:44 AM on Friday | posted by Strutz

Deadly wildfires in heavily populated northwest Oregon were growing, with hundreds of thousands of people told to flee encroaching flames while residents to the south tearfully assessed their losses.

20733

Environmental | 207334 hits | 6:16 PM on Tuesday | posted by Strutz

Air quality advisories are in effect for much of British Columbia due to drifting wildfire smoke, and many in Metro Vancouver are noticing it in the area.

20725

Environmental | 207250 hits | 9:24 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Leslie Creed grew a massive artichoke in Yellowknife this summer. The plant generally thrives in southern Mediterranean climates.

20673

Environmental | 206729 hits | 6:18 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

A southern resident killer whale who carried her dead calf for two weeks in 2018 in a heart-wrenching display of mourning has once again given birth.

20696

Environmental | 206956 hits | 10:40 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

Slime moulds aren't well known, but they can be found everywhere, even in Antarctica. Here's a close-up look at these magical, colourful and tiny little creatures.

20681

Environmental | 206812 hits | 10:37 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

A North American environmental watchdog found there is �scientifically valid evidence� that oilsands tailings ponds are contaminating groundwater sources.

20672

Environmental | 206715 hits | 6:04 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

Researchers at the University of Toronto say they detected microfibres linked to blue jeans in aquatic environments ranging from the shallow suburban lakes of southern Ontario, to the Great Lakes and all the way up to the Arctic Archipelago.

20695

Environmental | 206953 hits | 12:06 PM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

The World Wildlife Fund says species at risk of global extinction have seen population falls of 40%.

20673

Environmental | 206728 hits | 10:51 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Meltwater from shrinking glaciers is creating vast lakes that could eventually pose an enormous flooding threat, says newly published research. �Unsurprisingly, we found those lakes are growing,� said Dan Shugar, a geographer at the University of Calga

20742

Environmental | 207423 hits | 7:20 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

The Calgary Wildlife Rehabilitation Society is fielding concerning calls from people who have taken in wild animals, looking for help.

20686

Environmental | 206861 hits | 6:07 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

The effort is part of the billionaire philanthropist�s push to help fight climate change, and is targeted at helping utilities slash their emissions of planet-warming gases without undermining grid reliability. TerraPower LLC, which Gates founded 14 ye

21187

Environmental | 211867 hits | 9:39 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

In February, non-profit EU solar panel recycling body PV Cycle announced it had collected 5,000 tons of modules in France, of which 94.7% could be recycled. A reader asked us about the remaining 5.3%

20740

Environmental | 207401 hits | 6:58 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

As wind energy deployment increases and larger wind‐power plants are considered, bird fatalities through collision with moving turbine rotor blades are expected to increase. However, few (cost‐) effective deterrent or mitigation measures have

20739

Environmental | 207389 hits | 6:42 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

Flight of the Monarch Day was held in Toronto Saturday, as well as various other locations across Canada, in an effort to raise awareness around declining monarch butterfly populations and ways to help the fluttering insects.

20680

Environmental | 206797 hits | 10:26 PM on Sunday | posted by Scape

A dangerous weather situation is unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico. Caryn Ceolin with how two storms headed for the U.S. could break modern meteorological hist...

20745

Environmental | 207449 hits | 9:40 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

Humanity will have burned through all the natural resources that the planet can replenish for 2020 by Saturday, according to researchers who said the grim milestone is slightly later than last year after the pandemic slowed runaway overconsumption.

20723

Environmental | 207229 hits | 6:03 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

Greenland lost a record amount of ice during an extra warm 2019, with the melt massive enough to cover California in more than 1.25 metres of water, a new study said. After two years when summer ice melt had been minimal, last summer shattered all reco

20725

Environmental | 207251 hits | 7:49 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

A German icebreaker carrying scientists on a year-long international expedition in the High Arctic has reached the North Pole, after making an unplanned detour because of lighter-than-usual sea ice conditions.

20690

Environmental | 206896 hits | 3:43 AM on Thursday | posted by BeaverFever

In a nationwide blitz, gas companies and their allies fight climate efforts that they consider an existential threat to their business

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