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The heat of the night is when you can really feel climate change in CalgaryEnvironmental | 207122 hits | 7:44 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Calgary is in the midst of a heat wave, so it's probably hard to imagine that around this time in 1992, the city was dealing with a persistent overnight frost.
Gardeners, in particular, may remember that summer with frustration; temperatures dropped beAtlantic ocean plastic more than 10 times previous estimates
Environmental | 206848 hits | 5:18 PM on Tuesday | posted by BeaverFever
Earth's magnetic field area appears to be splitting in halfEnvironmental | 206995 hits | 1:09 PM on Tuesday | posted by Scape
Popular seafood species in sharp decline around the worldEnvironmental | 207178 hits | 9:09 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Fish market favourites such as orange roughy, common octopus and pink conch are among the species of fish and invertebrates in rapid decline around the world, according to new research.
In the first study of its kind, researchers at UBC, the GEOMAR Hel Rare white orca sighted off Alaskan coastEnvironmental | 207294 hits | 8:06 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
A rare white orca was spotted off the southeast coast of Alaska earlier this month, creating excitement for researchers and whale watchers alike.Iowa Corn Losses Predicted To Decrease U.S. Yield Average By 4 BPA
Environmental | 206788 hits | 3:52 PM on Monday | posted by Scape
Death Valley records highest temperature in the world in more than 100 years
A thermometer at Death Valley's Furnace Creek in the Southern California desert has soared to 54.4 C (130 F), the highest global temperature in more than a century, the U.S. National Weather Service said.
Environmental | 207078 hits | 2:17 PM on Monday | posted by Scape
A thermometer at Death Valley's Furnace Creek in the Southern California desert has soared to 54.4 C (130 F), the highest global temperature in more than a century, the U.S. National Weather Service said.'They deserve to be heard': Sick and dying coal ash cleanup workers fight for their lives
Hundreds of workers fell ill after cleaning up America’s largest industrial disaster without proper gear. At least 50 have died. Twelve years later, they’re still waiting for help
Environmental | 207228 hits | 9:42 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
Hundreds of workers fell ill after cleaning up America’s largest industrial disaster without proper gear. At least 50 have died. Twelve years later, they’re still waiting for help Environmental | 207172 hits | 6:16 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
After exhausting areas close to home, China’s vast fishing fleet has moved into the waters of other nations, depleting fish stocks. More than seafood is at stake, as China looks to assert itself on the seas and further its geo-political ambitions, from EaMauritius oil spill: Wrecked MV Wakashio breaks up
The MV Wakashio, which spilled more than 1,000 tonnes of fuel oil off Mauritius, has split apart.
Environmental | 207217 hits | 9:31 AM on Sunday | posted by DrCaleb
The MV Wakashio, which spilled more than 1,000 tonnes of fuel oil off Mauritius, has split apart. 'Canary in the coal mine': Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study findsEnvironmental | 207482 hits | 10:20 AM on Saturday | posted by DrCaleb
Greenland's ice sheet is likely to melt away no matter how quickly the world reduces climate-warming emissions, new research suggests. Australian billionaire woos Canadians, hoping to build big coal mine in Rocky MountainsEnvironmental | 207180 hits | 9:06 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting Pty is hoping a charm offensive, from annual fundraising parties to local refurbishments at a golf course, will help overcome opposition to a massive new coal mine in Canada’s Rocky Mountains.Brazil's Jair Bolsanaro calls new Amazon fires a
Environmental | 206807 hits | 7:42 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
The tiny Pacific nation of Kiribati wants to raise its islands to save it from the rising seaEnvironmental | 207350 hits | 8:31 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
The tiny nation of Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean is comprised of low-lying islands and atolls — circular land masses with water in the middle — no more than two metres above sea level With record-low salmon returning this year to Fraser River, B.C. fishers face tough timesEnvironmental | 207106 hits | 7:51 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Salmon fishing has had its ups and downs in recent years, but the overall trend is for fewer fish to return to spawn in the important Fraser River, which drains a large part of British Columbia and is vital habitat for salmon.Yesterday, in the middle of Summer, Greenland Gained a Record-Smashing 4 Gigatons of Snow and Ice
Environmental | 206809 hits | 6:59 AM on Tuesday | posted by uwish
Southern Ocean Site Has Just Cooled To Ice Age-Era TemperaturesEnvironmental | 206618 hits | 10:44 AM on Monday | posted by uwish
Melting glaciers will bring instability to more than 1 million Albertans' water supplyEnvironmental | 207101 hits | 7:15 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
A first of its kind study from the University of British Columbia has found that melting glaciers will bring water shortages to one in four people living in Alberta.Environmental | 207269 hits | 11:27 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
A vast fishing armada off Ecuador’s biodiverse Pacific islands has stirred alarm over ‘indiscriminate’ fishing practicesKilled for defending the planet: Murder of environmental activists reaches record high
Environmental | 206706 hits | 10:32 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Two Canadian ice caps have completely vanished from the Arctic, NASA imagery showsEnvironmental | 206777 hits | 8:16 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
On frosty Ellesmere Island, where Arctic Canada butts up against the northwestern edge of Greenland, two once-enormous ice caps have completely vanished, new NASA imagery shows. Fresh water is pouring into the Arctic Ocean. Climate change is to blame, new study saysEnvironmental | 206704 hits | 7:31 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
The surface of the Arctic Ocean is not as salty as it used to be — and researchers say climate change is to blame.Fires in Amazon rainforest up 28 per cent in July, worrying experts
Fires in the Brazilian Amazon increased 28 per cent in July from a year ago, a state agency reported Saturday.
Environmental | 206675 hits | 9:55 AM on Sunday | posted by DrCaleb
Fires in the Brazilian Amazon increased 28 per cent in July from a year ago, a state agency reported Saturday.Killer of Rafiki, Uganda's rare silverback mountain gorilla, jailed
The Ugandan hunter said that he had killed the animal in self defence when he was attacked.
Environmental | 207394 hits | 7:53 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
The Ugandan hunter said that he had killed the animal in self defence when he was attacked. Lack of bees, pollination limiting crop yields across U.S., B.C., study findsEnvironmental | 207357 hits | 7:34 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
A lack of wild bees and managed honeybees is limiting pollination and yields for certain crops on farms in British Columbia and across the United States, a collective of researchers has found.All 50 US States Warn About Unsolicited Seed Packages That Appear to Be From China
All 50 U.S. states have issued warnings about unsolicited packages containing unknown seeds sent to random U.S. households from China.
Environmental | 207347 hits | 7:00 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
All 50 U.S. states have issued warnings about unsolicited packages containing unknown seeds sent to random U.S. households from China. Yukon River chinook run below average again this year, Alaska officials sayEnvironmental | 207410 hits | 11:27 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game says the number of Yukon River Chinook salmon is significantly below average so far this year. Majority of early Fraser River sockeye run won't make it to spawning grounds, report suggestsEnvironmental | 207382 hits | 10:29 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
An early sockeye salmon run is having trouble making it up the Fraser River and the majority won't make it to their spawning grounds this year, largely because of the ongoing Big Bar landslide, according to a report from the Pacific Salmon Commission.Locust Swarms Are Getting So Big That We Need Radar to Track Them
In June, remote sensing analyst Raj Bhagat noticed a strange signal on India’s weather radar. It looked like a small band of rain near Delhi, moving southwest, but Bhagat was convinced it was a locust swarm.
“People began to report it,” he says, referr
Environmental | 207397 hits | 6:10 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
In June, remote sensing analyst Raj Bhagat noticed a strange signal on India’s weather radar. It looked like a small band of rain near Delhi, moving southwest, but Bhagat was convinced it was a locust swarm.
“People began to report it,” he says, referr Hydrogen-injected natural gas to heat homes in Alberta city next yearEnvironmental | 207414 hits | 9:31 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Homes in Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., are to be warmed with natural gas blended with hydrogen beginning next year, a "first step" amid efforts to diversify the province's energy sector and potentially reduce carbon emissions.Greta Thunberg to donate one-million-euro humanitarian prize
Greta Thunberg, the Swedish environment campaigner, has been awarded a new humanitarian prize worth one million euros.
The 17-year-old founder of School Strike for Climate, won the inaugural Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity.
Judges described her as "on
Environmental | 207544 hits | 10:13 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Greta Thunberg, the Swedish environment campaigner, has been awarded a new humanitarian prize worth one million euros.
The 17-year-old founder of School Strike for Climate, won the inaugural Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity.
Judges described her as "on Environmental | 207469 hits | 6:35 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
Generally speaking, 2020 has been a hell of a year. But in Siberia, there is an additional reason to make comparisons to the inferno: record-breaking warmth and its consequences. Wildfires have burned about 8,000 square miles, aided by a bumper crop of si Great Lakes Are Record Warm Right Now. Here's Why That Matters.Environmental | 207500 hits | 6:49 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Great Lakes water temperatures are setting records due to a persistently hot summer in the Midwest and Northeast, and that may have impacts lingering into fall and winter.
Water temperatures in the Great Lakes are running 6 to 11 degrees above average Climate Models Unable To Show Link Between Arctic Warming And Harsh Mid-Latitude Winters
Environmental | 206785 hits | 8:01 AM on Wednesday | posted by uwish
Wolf culls will not save endangered caribou in Western Canada, new study findsEnvironmental | 207209 hits | 7:19 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
A government-sponsored wolf kill in Western Canada has had "no detectable effect" on reversing the decline of endangered caribou populations, a study says. Microplastics collecting in lobster larvaetEnvironmental | 207273 hits | 6:43 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Microplastics in water seem to be able to get into lobster larvae in at least two separate ways, according to research at Maine’s Bigelow Laboratory of Ocean Science. Indigenous groups paying the price for Russia's massive Arctic fuel spillEnvironmental | 207184 hits | 9:16 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
Norilsk Nickel’s multibillion-dollar fine is unlikely to survive a challenge in Russian courts but Vladimir Putin’s government is eager to be seen as proactive. Tuktoyaktuk gets $5.5M from feds to address climate change and eroding shorelineEnvironmental | 207279 hits | 9:15 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
The government says the money will help with clean energy projects among other more pressing climate-related issues for the community, like its eroding shoreline.A new comet is now visible with the naked eye
Environmental | 206724 hits | 6:32 PM on Tuesday | posted by Scape
Bringing coal backEnvironmental | 207282 hits | 7:35 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
In a desperate economic moment, Alberta is abruptly reshaping a decades-old balance in the Rockies and Foothills, chasing opportunity in the volatile market of coal exports, at the risk of the very land that defines the province and its people.Italy's melting glaciers face new threat: Pink ice
Glacier scientists are investigating the appearance of pink ice at Italy's Presena Glacier, an Alpine region known for skiing and outdoor sports. Research suggests the algae could contribute to increased glacial melt.
Environmental | 207158 hits | 6:56 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Glacier scientists are investigating the appearance of pink ice at Italy's Presena Glacier, an Alpine region known for skiing and outdoor sports. Research suggests the algae could contribute to increased glacial melt. Research finds fishing gear a major source of ocean microplastics in Atlantic CanadaEnvironmental | 207217 hits | 8:36 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
Researchers studying the quantity of microplastics in the ocean in Atlantic Canada say some of the major sources of the puny pieces of plastic come from fishing gear and single-use plastics. 'They get around': Pelicans spotted as far north as Kugluktuk, NunavutEnvironmental | 207235 hits | 8:35 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
The arrival of pelicans in Kugluktuk, Nunavut, was a surprise, but it's a sign of healthy pelican colonies in general, and in particular of the colony near Fort Smith, N.W.T. Industry, mild winters clear way for white-tailed deer 'invasion' in Alberta's boreal forestEnvironmental | 207331 hits | 11:21 AM on Sunday | posted by Strutz
Herds of invasive white-tailed deer continue to migrate north in Alberta's boreal forest — bolstered by milder winters and human development that cuts through the vast wilderness, a new study suggests. Sweeping climate-crisis plan would bring US to zero emissions in 30 yearsEnvironmental | 206950 hits | 7:05 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
A House committee tasked with managing the global climate crisis this week unveiled an ambitious, detailed policy-package proposal. It brings the United States to net-zero emissions, protects vulnerable communities, and helps limit global warming to an inSydney now powered by 100% renewable electricity
The “green energy” deal which came into effect on Wednesday is valued at over $60 million and is touted by the City of Sydney Council as the biggest green energy deal of its kind by a council in Australia.
Under the deal, all the city of Sydney operati
Environmental | 206836 hits | 6:03 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
The “green energy” deal which came into effect on Wednesday is valued at over $60 million and is touted by the City of Sydney Council as the biggest green energy deal of its kind by a council in Australia.
Under the deal, all the city of Sydney operati How Canada geese bounced back from near extinction to conquer North AmericaEnvironmental | 207453 hits | 4:29 PM on Tuesday | posted by Strutz
As Canada Day approaches, experts say we have no one but ourselves to blame for the proliferation of Canada geese, so ultimately, it's up to us to find a way to live in peace with the species. Beavers are gnawing away at the Arctic permafrost, and that's bad for the planetEnvironmental | 207386 hits | 4:23 PM on Tuesday | posted by Strutz
The beaver is transforming the Arctic landscape in a way that could be exacerbating global warming. Dolphins are teaching each other how to use shells to catch and eat fishEnvironmental | 207324 hits | 7:44 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
The first time Sonja Wild saw a dolphin using an empty seashell to scoop an unwitting fish into its mouth, she got so excited she almost forgot to photograph it.Back to Canada News
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