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New Studies: Europe Is No Warmer Today Than It Was During Medieval Times
Environmental | 206803 hits | 7:25 AM on Thursday | posted by uwish
Scientists confirm dramatic melting of Greenland ice sheetEnvironmental | 207496 hits | 6:06 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
There was a dramatic melting of Greenland’s ice sheet in the summer of 2019, researchers have confirmed, in a study that reveals the loss was largely down to a persistent zone of high pressure over the region.
The ice sheet melted at a near record rate Entangled humpback whale found dead on remote B.C. islandEnvironmental | 207347 hits | 9:14 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Officials with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans are looking into the death of a humpback whale that washed ashore on a remote island just off Vancouver Island’s northwest coast. Climate Change Turns the Tide on Waterfront LivingEnvironmental | 207321 hits | 7:47 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
On Richmond Crescent in Norfolk, Va., more than a dozen homes rise in varying heights, forming a streetscape bar graph tracing the past decade’s increasing threat of flooding from an inlet of the Lafayette River. A green house with a prominent front porch Descendants of imported boars leave trail of destruction in CanadaEnvironmental | 207304 hits | 7:23 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Wild pigs are wreaking havoc across Canada, building “pigloo” shelters as they expand their territory.
The animals are the descendants of wild boars who were imported to the country from Europe in the late Eighties and early Nineties in an attempt to i Record-size hole opens in ozone layer above the ArcticEnvironmental | 206995 hits | 4:33 PM on Tuesday | posted by Scape
Great Barrier Reef suffers its most widespread mass bleaching event on record
Earlier this year, scientists warned that the Great Barrier Reef could be on the brink of its most widespread bleaching event ever recorded. That fear has been realized.
Surveys conducted by scientists at Australia’s James Cook University and the Great
Environmental | 207182 hits | 6:09 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Earlier this year, scientists warned that the Great Barrier Reef could be on the brink of its most widespread bleaching event ever recorded. That fear has been realized.
Surveys conducted by scientists at Australia’s James Cook University and the GreatWildlife take to the streets as people stay indoors Social Sharing
Many people worldwide spend time indoors in response to the coronavirus pandemic, and animals are making appearances in places where people usually spend time.
Environmental | 207448 hits | 1:12 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Many people worldwide spend time indoors in response to the coronavirus pandemic, and animals are making appearances in places where people usually spend time. Nature takes back world's empty city streets | CTV NewsEnvironmental | 206744 hits | 8:08 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
As humans retreat into their homes as more and more countries go under coronavirus lockdown, wild animals are slipping cover to explore the empty streets of some of our biggest cities. Environmental | 207015 hits | 6:19 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Report says plastic from Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé and Unilever products could cover 83 football pitches every dayU.S. stops enforcing many environmental laws, citing pandemic
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday abruptly waived enforcement on a range of legally mandated public-health and environmental protections, saying industries could have trouble complying with them during the coronavirus pandemic.
Environmental | 207642 hits | 12:15 PM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday abruptly waived enforcement on a range of legally mandated public-health and environmental protections, saying industries could have trouble complying with them during the coronavirus pandemic.Great Barrier Reef 'suffers third mass bleaching in five years
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has suffered a mass bleaching event - the third in just five years.
The reef’s head management agency confirmed there was “very widespread bleaching detected”.
The 345,400-square kilometre World Heritage-listed coral n
Environmental | 208037 hits | 9:24 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has suffered a mass bleaching event - the third in just five years.
The reef’s head management agency confirmed there was “very widespread bleaching detected”.
The 345,400-square kilometre World Heritage-listed coral n Coronavirus: Satellite images reveal US pollution drop as Americans stay at homeEnvironmental | 207609 hits | 8:15 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Pollution has dropped in major US cities as America shuts down to halt the spread of the coronavirus.
Satellite images show nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations from 10 March to 22 March, 2020 compared to the same period last year. Electric cars produce less CO2 than petrol vehicles, study confirmsEnvironmental | 207590 hits | 7:12 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
The researchers said in a few years, even inefficient electric cars will be less emission-intensive than most new petrol cars in most countries. Environmental | 207881 hits | 1:32 PM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
2019, nearly two dozen water agencies in Southern California were found to have reportable levels of cancer-causing chemical compounds in their wells. By 2020, 700 agencies with similar contamination had been identified across the United States. These com Wheat in Whitehorse: how climate change helps feed Canada's remote regionsEnvironmental | 206903 hits | 7:47 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Coronavirus risk to rare mountain gorillas prompts tourist bans
Parks where rare mountain gorillas live are being closed to visitors, citing "advice from scientific experts indicating that primates, including mountain gorillas, are likely susceptible to complications arising from the COVID-19 virus."
Environmental | 207510 hits | 6:16 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
Parks where rare mountain gorillas live are being closed to visitors, citing "advice from scientific experts indicating that primates, including mountain gorillas, are likely susceptible to complications arising from the COVID-19 virus." Sea turtles think plastic smells like foodEnvironmental | 207599 hits | 7:20 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
The push against single-use plastic has some emotive mascots, including the iconic turtle with a straw in its nose. The working hypothesis about why turtles are so attracted to plastic is that plastic drifting in the ocean can look a lot like jellyfish. BNottingham Trent University study to assess impact of traffic on hedgehogs
Hedgehog numbers are declining in part because so many are killed while crossing our roads.
Environmental | 206353 hits | 12:29 PM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Hedgehog numbers are declining in part because so many are killed while crossing our roads. The divine right of hereditary chiefs to override the desires and needs of their peopleEnvironmental | 207361 hits | 12:03 PM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The hereditary chiefs are in the pockets of anti-pipeline U.S. Tides Foundation, which funds their activities, and others in the well-heeled environmental lobby Plant-based' Compostable' What you need to know about bioplasticsEnvironmental | 207226 hits | 12:13 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Plastics made from fossil fuels generate a lot of greenhouse gas emissions and waste. 'Bioplastics,' especially compostable plastics made from plants, have been touted as a greener alternative. But what are they really? And are they really more environmen Everything you need to know about California's historic water lawEnvironmental | 207811 hits | 12:18 PM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
California began regulating surface water in rivers and streams in 1914, but it took the state another 100 years to look underground.
In 2014, for the first time in its history, California passed a law regulating the use of groundwater – the resource o Fossil fuel, climate change research 'being done in secret,' says university prof behind lawsuitEnvironmental | 207412 hits | 1:17 PM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Emily Eaton is an associate professor in the department of geography and environmental studies at the U of R. As part of her research into the effects of the fossil fuel industry on Saskatchewan education, she submitted a freedom of information request to Liberals apologize after hiding $183K in contracts awarded to environmental groupEnvironmental | 207464 hits | 12:12 AM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The Liberal government has been forced to apologize after coming clean about concealing nearly $200,000 in contracts awarded to an environmental group. Australia fires were far worse than any predictionEnvironmental | 207433 hits | 11:53 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
The Australian bushfires were more catastrophic than any simulation of our changing climate predicted.
This is the conclusion of researchers who described the devastation as a "fiery wake-up call for climate science". U of O researchers closing in on better, cheaper carbon capture technologyEnvironmental | 207321 hits | 10:12 AM on Tuesday | posted by Freakinoldguy
A team of researchers at the University of Ottawa is closing in on a new carbon capture technology capable of absorbing the industrial byproduct before it hits the atmosphere. Global Cooling May Be Our Bitter-Cold Reality | Climate Dispatch
Environmental | 206724 hits | 7:33 AM on Monday | posted by uwish
January was warmest on record for the globeEnvironmental | 207551 hits | 7:24 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
We’re off to a hot start in 2020, with January setting a new mark as the warmest instance of that month on record for the globe. And as NOAA pointed out in its monthly summary released Thursday, that occurred without the warming influence of an El Niño in Teck withdraws application for Frontier oilsands mine, citing debate around climate policyEnvironmental | 207631 hits | 7:46 PM on Sunday | posted by llama66
Vancouver-based Teck Resources has withdrawn its application to build a massive oilsands project in northern Alberta.India's bird population 'going down sharply'
Much of India's bird population has sharply declined in the past few decades, according to a major study.
The State of India's Birds report relied on the observations of more than 15,000 birdwatchers who helped assess the status of 867 birds.
It fou
Environmental | 207249 hits | 12:02 PM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Much of India's bird population has sharply declined in the past few decades, according to a major study.
The State of India's Birds report relied on the observations of more than 15,000 birdwatchers who helped assess the status of 867 birds.
It fou How produce stickers contribute to climate changeEnvironmental | 207311 hits | 12:07 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at how the stickers on fruits and veggies can complicate composting efforts, as well as the biggest players in battery storage. A Volcano Eruption Can Emit More CO2 Than All Humanity.Environmental | 206828 hits | 7:08 AM on Thursday | posted by uwish
'First time we've heard of this': Wide fissure opens on Arctic sea iceEnvironmental | 207353 hits | 8:13 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
In about 24 hours last week a natural phenomenon near Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, developed from a minor inconvenience into a potentially life-threatening hazard.
It's not unusual for underwater currents in the Queen Maud Gulf, south of Cambridge Bay, to c Wood bison returning to Northern Alberta First Nation for first time in more than 100 yearsEnvironmental | 207232 hits | 7:23 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
More than a dozen bison from Elk Island National Park will soon be on the move to northern Alberta.
Parks Canada is translocating 14 wood bison from the park near Edmonton to Woodland Cree First Nation in the Peace River region within the next week. Health authority monitoring on-leave employee heading up taxpayer-funded protest campEnvironmental | 206782 hits | 10:02 PM on Monday | posted by Freakinoldguy
In public shift, Kenney says Alberta has to go green over timeEnvironmental | 206763 hits | 5:38 PM on Monday | posted by BeaverFever
Japan to Build 22 Coal-Burning Power Plants
Environmental | 206803 hits | 9:01 AM on Monday | posted by Freakinoldguy
Four rare mountain gorillas 'die in Uganda lightning strike'
The four killed by suspected electrocution include a pregnant female, a conservation group says.
Environmental | 207268 hits | 10:38 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The four killed by suspected electrocution include a pregnant female, a conservation group says. Thousands of blood-sucking ticks found on bodies of Canadian mooseEnvironmental | 206819 hits | 6:20 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
Canadian researchers study impact of warming winters as parasites move north Hotter heat waves are wiping out bumblebees, study findsEnvironmental | 206741 hits | 6:19 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
Many bumblebee species have vanished from places where they were once common. Now a new Canadian-led study finds that hotter temperatures during heat waves are to blame, and uses it to predict which bumblebees are most likely to face local extinction as t Train derails near Guernsey, Sask., second derailment in two months | CTV NewsEnvironmental | 206870 hits | 7:53 AM on Thursday | posted by uwish
Longest-Ever S. Hemisphere Tree-Ring Reconstruction Finds The 1700s-1800s Were Warmer Than Today
Environmental | 206740 hits | 7:12 AM on Monday | posted by uwish
He was protecting the monarch butterfly from Mexico's illegal loggers, but he was the one in dangerEnvironmental | 207466 hits | 9:09 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
As millions of monarchs made a 3,220-kilometre journey from Canada to Mexico each October, Homero Gómez González tried to protect themNo Evidence That Snow Is Disappearing
Environmental | 206688 hits | 7:40 AM on Thursday | posted by uwish
Environment Canada to release science review backing need for plastics banEnvironmental | 207425 hits | 6:27 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Environment Canada is releasing scientific evidence today to back up the government's bid to ban most single-use plastics next year.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced last June the government was getting ready to prohibit the production and sale Bad News Alarmists Official Data Reveals Arctic Sea Ice is once again GROWING
Environmental | 207402 hits | 6:57 AM on Wednesday | posted by uwish
British carbon tax leads to 93% drop in coal-fired electricityEnvironmental | 207654 hits | 12:03 PM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
A tax on carbon dioxide emissions in Great Britain, introduced in 2013, has led to the proportion of electricity generated from coal falling from 40% to 3% over six years, according to research led by UCL.View of Challenging the Greenhouse Effect Specification and the Climate Sensitivity of the IPCC
Environmental | 206708 hits | 10:21 AM on Monday | posted by uwish
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