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20762

Environmental | 207617 hits | 6:34 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

A U.S. government agency says a killer whale that is part of the endangered southern resident population appears to have lost weight. The whale known as K25 is a 27-year-old adult male who has been documented in aerial photos since 2008.

20755

Environmental | 207547 hits | 11:50 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Marine life rescuers are asking the public not to get too close and to watch it from the shore.

20758

Environmental | 207580 hits | 7:21 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

NASA scientists have combined data on our planet's rotation with a number of sophisticated models to find that melting ice is a major cause of a strange drift in our planet's wobbling spin.

20751

Environmental | 207506 hits | 7:44 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

Katey Walter Anthony has studied some 300 lakes across the tundras of the Arctic. But sitting on the mucky shore of her latest discovery, the Arctic expert said she’d never seen a lake like this one.

20751

Environmental | 207508 hits | 11:24 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

For as long as there have been fish farms in this province, there have been fish escaping from cages into the wild. Conservationists have suspected those escapees breed with native fish, changing their DNA. Now they have proof.

20746

Environmental | 207463 hits | 10:54 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Erik Solheim reportedly ran up a huge travel bill and showed scant regard for rules, according to a leaked draft internal UN audit report.

20748

Environmental | 207480 hits | 3:30 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack

Environment Canada posted the notices for Vancouver Island, Metro Vancouver, Howe Sound, the North Shore and the Sunshine Coast on Thursday morning. The weather could damage trees that are still recovering from a drier-than-normal summer, according to the

20766

Environmental | 207659 hits | 3:10 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack

Members of the Cheslatta Carrier Nation were in the middle of a helicopter flight to assess damage from this year's wildfires when they saw what they thought to be two dead bears. But one was very much alive. The crew was horrified when they realized what

20737

Environmental | 207367 hits | 7:01 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

The evidence is disparate. But scientists' worries are very real.

20760

Environmental | 207602 hits | 9:11 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack

Ghost nets kill millions of sea creatures worldwide and this B.C. example on the Fraser River highlights a largely unseen global problem. Roughly 640,000 tonnes of fishing gear is estimated lost or dumped into the world's oceans each year.

20748

Environmental | 207482 hits | 12:44 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack

Deadly effluent from a cement plant is believed to have killed off salmon fry, crayfish and trout in the Nicomekl River. The Nicomekl River originates in Langley and flows west to Crescent Beach in South Surrey where it drains into Mud Bay.

20746

Environmental | 207455 hits | 12:39 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack

A treaty to keep the fragile salmon species afloat calls for a 12.5 per cent harvest reduction in B.C. and lesser cuts in the U.S. The treaty covers pink, coho, sockeye, chum and chinook salmon and spans a territory from Cape Falcon, Ore., in the south to

20754

Environmental | 207537 hits | 12:10 PM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

A commercial container ship has for the first time successfully navigated the Northern Sea Route of the Arctic Ocean, a route made possible by melting sea ice caused by global warming.

20766

Environmental | 207658 hits | 1:56 AM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog

An estimated 40 million to 50 million goldfish inhabit the waters of Lake Ontario, threatening native species.

20695

Environmental | 206950 hits | 8:00 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack

Shell Canada Ltd. has given up its offshore exploration rights, clearing the way for the creation of Canada's first protected marine area under the Canada Wildlife Act. The wildlife area was established in June, and conserves a vital marine area for milli

20712

Environmental | 207116 hits | 5:16 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack

Forty farmers on P.E.I. delayed their first cut of hay this summer on a thousand acres across the Island to protect grassland birds, including a threatened species called the bobolink.

20684

Environmental | 206841 hits | 9:48 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

Such interactions, one expert says, are further proof that whales exhibit much more complex social behaviours than previously thought

20693

Environmental | 206933 hits | 8:10 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

Epcor unveiled a new facility Wednesday that removes phosphorous and nitrogen from waste water and turns it into fertilizer to be spread on farmers' fields.

20695

Environmental | 206945 hits | 10:00 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack

The Pacific Balance Pinniped Society says the quickest way to reverse declining salmon numbers is to kill thousands of seals and sea lions on the B.C. coast.

20678

Environmental | 206775 hits | 9:27 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

A 46-year-old man was injured when his semi truck rolled on a northern Alberta highway and spilled 100 litres of oil into the ditch.

20678

Environmental | 206779 hits | 7:57 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

With the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project stalled, and overall Canadian pipeline capacity limited, the pressure to ship crude oil out of Alberta continues to grow.

20648

Environmental | 206482 hits | 8:41 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

Fuel for oil field operations arrived on the North Slope by barge instead of by truck last week for the first time.

20674

Environmental | 206737 hits | 8:01 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

What is not clear is whether climate change and pollution from humans near the shore has made this outbreak severe and prolonged

20688

Environmental | 206877 hits | 2:07 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack

A new study is revealing just how much greener and warmer the Arctic is expected to get by the end of this century. By 2100, only 20% of land vegetation will still be subject to centuries-old cold conditions, researchers say.

20669

Environmental | 206694 hits | 10:21 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

A Dutch-led operation is set to tow a giant boom to the Great Garbage Patch to corral plastic litter.

20669

Environmental | 206693 hits | 7:48 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

ICBC is wading through some 2,500 insurance claims, hundreds of which are resulting in writeoffs, following two acid spills on the highway in Trail, B.C.

20693

Environmental | 206931 hits | 12:23 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack

A powerful wave as tall as a 55-storey building crashed through a fjord in Alaska in 2015, stripping the mountainsides of trees and dirt. It was triggered by a landslide — and researchers say such tsunamis could pose an increasing risk in places like West

20873

Environmental | 208725 hits | 9:01 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

Two First Nations governments in the B.C. Interior are joining together to ban all limited-entry hunting for moose in their respective territories, while accusing the province of not taking effective action to protect the animals.

20675

Environmental | 206753 hits | 6:52 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

Just seven years ago, the hit animated comedy Rio featured a Spix's macaw in the title role. Now that bird, along with seven others, is extinct.

20869

Environmental | 208687 hits | 4:31 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

11-year-old Luke Hebb wasn’t dreaming when he pulled a 16-pound koi out of Lacombe Lake in St. Albert Wednesday morning.

20788

Environmental | 207883 hits | 8:20 AM on Thursday | posted by Robair

In a stunning blow, the Federal Court of Appeal has quashed Ottawa's approvals to build the Trans Mountain expansion project — a major victory for Indigenous groups and environmentalists opposed to the $7.4-billion project.

20779

Environmental | 207791 hits | 6:56 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

A pocket of warm ocean water underneath the surface of the Canada Basin could melt a significant portion of the region's sea ice pack if it were to ascend, a new study suggests.

20780

Environmental | 207797 hits | 3:58 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

An air quality advisory for Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley has ended, as clean air continues to push smoke out of the region. The air quality advisory was issued for Metro Vancouver on Sunday and continued into early Monday morning. It ended around

20791

Environmental | 207908 hits | 3:56 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

For decades, scientists have predicted that B.C. would experience longer, more intense wildfire seasons as the climate warms. But the destruction of the last two years is still a bit surprising.

20817

Environmental | 208167 hits | 5:19 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Impact of high levels of toxic air ‘is equivalent to having lost a year of education’

20665

Environmental | 206653 hits | 7:07 PM on Monday | posted by BeaverFever

Campfires, cigarettes, flares and car accidents are some of the ways humans have likely started more than 400 wildfires in British Columbia this season.

20783

Environmental | 207834 hits | 6:57 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

A passenger ship that ran aground Friday morning in the Far North has been refloated, and all its passengers were safe and being cared for on another ship.

20755

Environmental | 207548 hits | 11:46 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

Farmers and ranchers across the prairies have been facing off against hot and dry weather conditions for the past year, and a drought researcher says simulations show it's time to start treating these conditions as the "new normal."

20753

Environmental | 207526 hits | 6:56 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

The Arctic permafrost really should stay frozen. In many places it's been frozen for tens of thousands of years, locking away greenhouse gasses and ancient diseases.

20736

Environmental | 207359 hits | 9:50 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog

A judge in Washington state on Tuesday dismissed a climate change lawsuit filed against the state by a group of child activists.

20759

Environmental | 207590 hits | 9:44 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog

As the federal Liberals forge ahead with expensive tax-and-spend policies to tackle climate change, more and more Canadians aren't buying into their agenda.

20776

Environmental | 207761 hits | 7:14 AM on Thursday | posted by Robair

The past four years have been the hottest on record, but new research shows the Earth was actually in a global warming "hiatus" that is about to end — and make the Earth even hotter.

20715

Environmental | 207146 hits | 2:16 PM on Monday | posted by Robair

B.C. has formally requested wildfire assistance from the federal government.

20716

Environmental | 207156 hits | 11:46 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

Farmers explain the devastating effect of a dry spell that has swept swathes of the country.

20697

Environmental | 206973 hits | 7:53 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

Unprecedented efforts are in the works to help a malnourished and possibly sick young killer whale last spotted off the B.C. coast — if officials can reach her in time.

20747

Environmental | 207457 hits | 1:35 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

More than three decades after it sunk off Newfoundland's picturesque Notre Dame Bay, work begins Tuesday to extract leaking bulk oil from the wreck of the Manolis L.

20695

Environmental | 206950 hits | 1:32 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

A Seattle expert in environmental contaminants says chemicals common in sewage put juvenile chinook salmon at risk. Samples revealed everything from cocaine to amphetamines and nicotine byproducts. He said drugs that pass through humans, such as diabetes

20703

Environmental | 207033 hits | 1:30 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

Unprecedented efforts are in the works to help a malnourished and possibly sick young killer whale last spotted off the B.C. coast — if officials can find her in time.

20717

Environmental | 207173 hits | 9:05 AM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Mobs of kangaroos have been raiding patches of grass in the Australian capital Canberra, driven to the city's sports fields, back yards and roadsides by food scarcity.

20695

Environmental | 206953 hits | 5:30 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

It took an hour and a half to disentangle a 10-year-old North Atlantic right whale that was spotted more than a week ago wrapped in fishing gear.

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