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Queensland bushfires: Evacuations amid 'highly unusual' conditions
Hundreds evacuate their homes in Queensland amid "unprecedented" weather conditions, officials say.
Environmental | 207449 hits | 12:03 PM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
Hundreds evacuate their homes in Queensland amid "unprecedented" weather conditions, officials say.Environmental | 207918 hits | 6:02 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
Global warming is now affecting the United States more than ever, and the risks of future disasters — from flooding along the coasts to crop failures in the Midwest — could pose a profound threat to Americans’ well-being.
'I am superbly worried': West Coast fishermen await decision on restrictions meant to protect orcasEnvironmental | 207412 hits | 5:01 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack
A year after the Department of Fisheries and Oceans closed off several West Coast sports fishing area to protect orcas, fishermen say they're worried more closures are on the way along the southern Vancouver Island. Race against time to rescue sea lion with band embedded in its neckEnvironmental | 207548 hits | 11:00 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
The DFO was contacted by Cowichan Bay locals who believed the sea lion was in distress. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans says it will launch a rescue of a sea lion with what appears to be a packing strap deeply embedded in its neck in Cowichan Bay. 'Something has changed:' Three bear species found in same northern Manitoba spotEnvironmental | 207904 hits | 10:57 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
Doug Clark of the University of Saskatchewan says he's got the first recorded proof of grizzly, black and polar bears all using the same land. "Scientifically, it has never been documented anywhere," he told The Canadian Press. 'Deadly serious': 2 caribou herds shrink by half in latest countEnvironmental | 207712 hits | 11:41 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Two caribou herds have seen their numbers decline by 50 per cent. In response, the territorial government is considering tighter restrictions on hunting. Environmental | 207618 hits | 6:39 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
The 250,000-litre spill happened on Friday morning while Husky Energy's SeaRose platform was preparing to restart production during a fierce storm that was, at the time, the most intense in the world. Dead whale found with 115 plastic cups, 2 flip-flops in its stomachEnvironmental | 208097 hits | 8:22 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
A dead whale that washed ashore in eastern Indonesia had a large lump of plastic waste in its stomach, including plastic bags and flip-flops, causing concern among environmentalists and government officials in one of the world's largest plastic polluting How B.C. destroys a key natural wildfire defence every yearEnvironmental | 206710 hits | 3:03 PM on Saturday | posted by Strutz
Last year, 12,812 hectares of B.C. forest was sprayed with the herbicide glyphosate. It's an annual event — a mass extermination of broadleaf trees mandated by the province. Blue-green algae blooms ease but toxic lake goo here to stay: U of A researcherEnvironmental | 206780 hits | 7:46 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Blue-green algae mucking up area lakes waned this year — but don’t let your guard down, the toxic goo is here to stay, warns a University of Alberta researcher. Raw sewage overflowing into Ontario waterways at alarming rate, watchdog saysEnvironmental | 206933 hits | 5:59 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Ontario's environmental watchdog says the province is allowing raw sewage to overflow into lakes and rivers at an alarming rate. Environmental | 206883 hits | 4:04 PM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
There are too many polar bears in parts of Nunavut and climate change hasn’t yet affected any of them, says a draft management plan from the territorial government. Environmental | 207005 hits | 12:23 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says the federal government plans to disburse money from a climate fund directly to Ontario institutions and businesses after the provincial government cancelled its climate program.UK renewable energy capacity surpasses fossil fuels for first time
Renewable capacity has tripled in past five years, even faster growth than the ‘dash for gas’ of the 1990s
Environmental | 206798 hits | 6:07 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Renewable capacity has tripled in past five years, even faster growth than the ‘dash for gas’ of the 1990sA new way to make steel could cut 5% of CO2 emissions at a stroke
A lumpy disc of dark-gray steel covers a bench in the lab space of Boston Metal, an MIT spinout located a half-hour north of its namesake city. It’s the company’s first batch of the high-strength alloy, created using a novel approach to metal processing.
Environmental | 206577 hits | 5:18 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
A lumpy disc of dark-gray steel covers a bench in the lab space of Boston Metal, an MIT spinout located a half-hour north of its namesake city. It’s the company’s first batch of the high-strength alloy, created using a novel approach to metal processing.Wind farms are the 'new apex predators' as they kill off three QUARTERS of predatory birds
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru studied lizard and bird populations at three wind turbine sites in the Western Ghats.
Environmental | 206928 hits | 11:41 AM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru studied lizard and bird populations at three wind turbine sites in the Western Ghats. Environmental | 206941 hits | 9:20 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
At its worst in the late 1990s, about 10 per cent of the upper ozone layer was depleted Not-so-wild world: Canada one of five countries holding remaining majority of wildernessEnvironmental | 206862 hits | 7:00 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
The Wildlife Conservation Society reported that 70 per cent of the world's wilderness belongs to five countries and of those five, Canada holds the second-largest area following Russia. Unique salmon run on Vancouver Island gets a helping handEnvironmental | 206802 hits | 11:06 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack
One of B.C.'s most unique and labour-intensive salmon runs in Mill Bay involves moving thousands of fish upstream by hand, one by one. Environmental | 206874 hits | 9:53 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Internal regulatory documents reveal staggering estimate by a top regulatory official. The staggering financial liabilities for the energy industry’s mining waste and graveyard of spent facilities were spelled out by a high-ranking official of the Alberta Earth's oceans have absorbed 60 percent more heat than previously thought Environmental | 206883 hits | 5:56 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Since 1991, the world's oceans have absorbed an amount of heat energy each year that is 150 times the energy humans produce as electricity annually, according to a study led by researchers at Princeton and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The stro 60% of world's wildlife has been wiped out since 1970Environmental | 207556 hits | 12:45 PM on Tuesday | posted by Robair
Well over half the world’s population of vertebrates, from fish to birds to mammals, have been wiped out in the past four decades, says a new report from the World Wildlife Fund. Bedrock stress could be factor in fracking-caused earthquakes: studyEnvironmental | 207810 hits | 10:17 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
New research is digging in to why fracking causes earthquakes in some areas but not in others. Humanity has wiped out 60% of animal populations since 1970, report findsEnvironmental | 207834 hits | 7:43 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
The huge loss is a tragedy in itself but also threatens the survival of civilisation, say the world’s leading scientists Canadian crude-by-rail exports rise to new record of 229,544 bpd in AugustEnvironmental | 207451 hits | 5:19 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
That's up more than 11 per cent from 206,624 bpd in July and 91 per cent from just 120,000 bpd in August 2017. Coast guard ship breakdown ends 48-year science survey streakEnvironmental | 207755 hits | 8:13 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
For the first time in 48 years, Canadian fisheries scientists failed to complete an annual summer survey off Nova Scotia because of a mechanical breakdown on their coast guard research ship. Whitehorse's infamous tar pit gets cleaned up after 73 yearsEnvironmental | 207739 hits | 9:55 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
A team in Whitehorse is looking to clean up a mess that dates back to the 1940s.US air pollution deaths nearly halved between 1990 and 2010
Air pollution in the US has decreased since about 1990, and a new study conducted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill now shows that this air quality improvement has brought substantial public health benefits. The study, published in the jo
Environmental | 207584 hits | 6:49 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
Air pollution in the US has decreased since about 1990, and a new study conducted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill now shows that this air quality improvement has brought substantial public health benefits. The study, published in the joA water fight in Chile's Atacama raises questions over lithium mining
Earlier this year, the world’s two biggest lithium producers publicly celebrated new deals with Chile’s government that will allow them to vastly increase output of the ultralight battery metal from the Atacama, the world’s driest desert.
Environmental | 207362 hits | 6:23 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
Earlier this year, the world’s two biggest lithium producers publicly celebrated new deals with Chile’s government that will allow them to vastly increase output of the ultralight battery metal from the Atacama, the world’s driest desert. Remote South Atlantic Islands Are Flooded With PlasticEnvironmental | 207331 hits | 5:12 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
In less than ten years, plastic pollution around St. Helena, East Falkland and Ascension Islands has increased tenfold, and 100 times in the last 30 years Microplastics found in 90 percent of table saltEnvironmental | 207346 hits | 5:10 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
Microplastics were found in sea salt several years ago. But how extensively plastic bits are spread throughout the most commonly used seasoning remained unclear. Now, new research shows microplastics in 90 percent of the table salt brands sampled worldwid The Dirt on Clean Electric CarsEnvironmental | 206514 hits | 1:14 AM on Friday | posted by Freakinoldguy
Cleanup of wind and solar sites won't land at Alberta farmers' feetEnvironmental | 207519 hits | 7:50 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Provincial government takes aim at farmers' concerns they could get stuck with cleanup bill for renewable energy projects. 'Hyperalarming' study shows massive insect lossEnvironmental | 209524 hits | 5:16 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Insects around the world are in a crisis, according to a small but growing number of long-term studies showing dramatic declines in invertebrate populations. A new report suggests that the problem is more widespread than scientists realized. Huge numbers Enbridge gas pipeline ruptures, sparking massive fire and evacuation north of Prince George, B.C.Environmental | 206829 hits | 5:56 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
About 100 people have been evacuated from the nearby Lheidli T'enneh First Nation. The RCMP says the cause of the rupture is still under investigation Environmental | 206812 hits | 8:54 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Justin Trudeau is lamenting certain conservative politicians’ views on climate change as Ontario Premier Doug Ford is rallying against the carbon tax in the West. Swiss cow feed fights global warming by cutting flatulence in livestock
The United Nations says livestock farming alone is responsible for up to 18 percent of the greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. Nearly a quarter of that comes from bovine flatulence.
Environmental | 206880 hits | 12:00 PM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The United Nations says livestock farming alone is responsible for up to 18 percent of the greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. Nearly a quarter of that comes from bovine flatulence. Lack of oxygen in Gulf of St. Lawrence needs emergency action, says activistEnvironmental | 207286 hits | 8:02 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
Green Leader Elizabeth May asked for an emergency discussion Tuesday in the House of Commons on the Gulf of St. Lawrence following the release of a report detailing declining oxygen levels in the water. Speaker Geoff Regan turned her down. Giant stranded sturgeon rescued on the Fraser RiverEnvironmental | 206837 hits | 8:00 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
A 2.5 metre, 135 kilogram sturgeon that became stranded in shallow water off the Fraser River near Agassiz has been given a new lease on life after RCMP First Nations Police (FNP) organized a rescue mission. Canada to join international moratorium on High Arctic commercial fishingEnvironmental | 206846 hits | 6:57 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
High Arctic commercial fisheries moratorium will cover 2.8 million square kilometres of ocean, although there are no current commercial fisheries in the region. Environmental | 206871 hits | 5:13 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Dana Nuccitelli: As a wealthy, warm country, the US would benefit from implementing a carbon tax to slow global warming Scientists track nighthawks' migration route in search of clues to species' steep declineEnvironmental | 206990 hits | 11:09 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
In a quest to develop conservation strategies to protect a threatened species whose population has declined 80 per cent in the last 50 years, scientists at the University of Alberta have discovered the enigmatic nighthawk travels 20,000 kilometres each ye Trump Administration Prepares a Major Weakening of Mercury Emissions RulesEnvironmental | 206772 hits | 10:39 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
The Trump administration has completed a detailed legal proposal to dramatically weaken a major environmental regulation covering mercury, a toxic chemical emitted from coal-burning power plants, according to a person who has seen the document but is not 2018 Arctic summertime sea ice minimum extent tied for sixth lowest on recordEnvironmental | 207788 hits | 7:24 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
Arctic sea ice likely reached its 2018 lowest extent on Sept. 19 and again on Sept. 23, according to NASA and the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder. Analysis of satellite data by NSIDC and NASA Killer whale populations under threat of collapse, says studyEnvironmental | 207804 hits | 2:42 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
A new study reveals that killer whale populations around the world are threatened by high levels of pollutants. More than 40 per cent of the whales studied were in “severe danger of collapse” in the next 3 to 5 decades. Taller plants moving into Arctic because of climate changeEnvironmental | 207700 hits | 12:00 PM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Plants in the Arctic are growing taller because of climate change, according to new research from a global scientific collaboration led by the University of Edinburgh.
While the Arctic is usually thought of as a vast, desolate landscape of ice, it is i Endangered sei whales spotted in Canadian waters for first time since 1960sEnvironmental | 207701 hits | 5:12 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
There were once more than 60,000 sei whales in the North Pacific, before their population was devastated by whalers. Thawing permafrost on Peel Plateau releasing acid that's breaking down minerals: studyEnvironmental | 207848 hits | 5:15 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Mineral weathering intensified by thawing permafrost is likely increasing the amount of carbon dioxide released into the air and water, according to a study from the University of Alberta. Research group tags its first great white shark in Canadian watersEnvironmental | 207634 hits | 6:59 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack
Researchers looking for a possible great white shark mating site off Nova Scotia have tagged their first shark in Canadian waters. One of Ocearch's other tagged sharks, an adult male named Hilton, has a made a splash in Nova Scotia for his wry Twitter feeU.S. judge restores protections for grizzly bears, blocking hunts
A U.S. judge ordered federal protections restored for grizzly bears in the Northern Rocky Mountains on Monday, a move that blocks the first grizzly hunts planned in the Lower 48 states in almost three decades.
Environmental | 207641 hits | 6:57 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack
A U.S. judge ordered federal protections restored for grizzly bears in the Northern Rocky Mountains on Monday, a move that blocks the first grizzly hunts planned in the Lower 48 states in almost three decades.Back to Canada News
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