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Officials killing off coral-eating starfish in Great Barrier Reef
A major outbreak of coral-eating starfish has been found munching Australia's world heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef, scientists said on Friday, prompting the government to begin culling the spiky marine animals.
Environmental | 206945 hits | 7:52 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack
A major outbreak of coral-eating starfish has been found munching Australia's world heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef, scientists said on Friday, prompting the government to begin culling the spiky marine animals.Climate change expert sentenced to 32 months for fraud, says lying was a 'rush'
The EPA’s highest-paid employee and a leading expert on climate change was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison Wednesday for lying to his bosses and saying he was a CIA spy working in Pakistan so he could avoid doing his real job.John C. Beale’s crim
Environmental | 206265 hits | 12:16 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The EPA’s highest-paid employee and a leading expert on climate change was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison Wednesday for lying to his bosses and saying he was a CIA spy working in Pakistan so he could avoid doing his real job.John C. Beale’s crim
2017 was 2nd hottest year on record, European data showsEnvironmental | 206977 hits | 4:08 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
Last year was the second hottest worldwide on record, just behind a sweltering 2016 with signs of climate change ranging from wildfires to a thaw of Arctic ice, a European Union monitoring centre said on Thursday.Low oxygen levels, coral bleaching getting worse in oceans
Two new studies show global warming is making oceans sicker, depleting them of oxygen and harming delicate coral reefs more often. A second study finds that severe bleaching outbreaks are hitting coral reefs four times more often than before as waters war
Environmental | 206746 hits | 3:58 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
Two new studies show global warming is making oceans sicker, depleting them of oxygen and harming delicate coral reefs more often. A second study finds that severe bleaching outbreaks are hitting coral reefs four times more often than before as waters war Mystery odour stirring up complaints in White RockEnvironmental | 206769 hits | 3:44 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
The City of White Rock says it's received dozens of complaints from residents in the past few weeks, stemming from a pungent smell. Fortis B.C. is investigating. Metro Vancouver says it believes the odour is coming from an agricultural composting facility Study finds U.S. regulations to protect killer whales near B.C. coast effectiveEnvironmental | 206918 hits | 2:06 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
American regulations that limit vessel noise and traffic around endangered killer whales off the West Coast are working, a new study says. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in its review of regulations adopted in 2011 that the More than 150 grizzlies killed while NDP contemplated hunting policyEnvironmental | 207057 hits | 12:44 PM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
B.C. NDP's announcement banning hunting of grizzlies for trophies and food came too late for 159 grizzlies killed during the fall hunt. Trudeau will fall 66 Mt short of 2030 greenhouse reduction targetsEnvironmental | 207990 hits | 11:13 AM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The Trudeau government has finally admitted that even if it implements every one of its current climate change polices, costing Canadians tens of billions of dollars, it will still fall far short of its greenhouse gas reduction targets for 2020 and 2030. From B.C. to Mexico, starfish are making a comeback after syndrome killed millionsEnvironmental | 208011 hits | 12:22 PM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - Starfish are making a comeback on the West Coast, four years after a mysterious syndrome killed millions of them.From 2013 to 2014, Sea Star Wasting Syndrome hit sea stars from British Columbia to Mexico.Plummeting temperatures could cause 'mini ice age' in 2030 | Daily Mail Online
The study, led by maths professor Valentina Zharkova at Northumbria University, says that between 2020 and 2030 solar cycles will cancel each other out.
Environmental | 210812 hits | 7:55 AM on Thursday | posted by Robair
The study, led by maths professor Valentina Zharkova at Northumbria University, says that between 2020 and 2030 solar cycles will cancel each other out. Arctic will likely never return to former frigid days, says climate change reportEnvironmental | 208065 hits | 6:51 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack
The Arctic will likely never return to the frozen state it once enjoyed because of the effects of climate change, according to the 2017 Arctic Report Card. This year it determined the climate in the Arctic has reached a new, warmer normal, and the effects Bitumen spill would harm swimming performance of migrating B.C. salmon: studyEnvironmental | 207981 hits | 6:47 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack
Salmon migrating through rivers and streams in British Columbia use all their strength, but new research says even tiny amounts of diluted bitumen weakens their chances of making it back to spawn. Alberta renewable revolution begins with launch of largest solar project in Western CanadaEnvironmental | 208857 hits | 6:11 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
The Brooks project is the first of several renewable energy projects to be constructed in Alberta as the province shifts away from coal power plants. Snowy owl numbers far lower than once thoughtEnvironmental | 206945 hits | 6:47 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
This winter's mass migration of snowy owls is a chance for researchers to fit some of them with transmitters to help study a long-misunderstood species. Instead of 300,000 snowy owls worldwide, as long believed, researchers say the population likely is cl Risk of viral transfer from B.C. fish farms to wild sockeye is low: studyEnvironmental | 206838 hits | 6:07 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
New research released by the federal government says there are minimal risks of farmed Atlantic salmon from B.C.'s Discovery Islands transferring a deadly viral disease to wild sockeye making their way to the Fraser River. Wildfires, heatwave and flooding among Canada's top weather stories for 2017Environmental | 208798 hits | 4:42 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
Raging wildfires that scorched 1.2 million hectares of land in British Columbia, a heatwave across parts of the prairies and widespread flooding in Ontario and Quebec topped Environment Canada's list of the Top 10 Weather Stories for 2017. 'Sitting on our hands is not an option': Alberta releases another draft plan to save threatened caribouEnvironmental | 207073 hits | 7:02 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
The province has released another draft of its overdue plan to protect the 15 ranges of threatened woodland caribou in Alberta. New research suggests wild salmon exposed to fish farms have 'much higher' rate of viral infectionEnvironmental | 207284 hits | 3:28 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack
Fraser River sockeye and chinook salmon pass through some of the most dense fish farming areas and were found to have high rates of infection compared to wild salmon in the north where fish farms are not a factor. Swarms of leeches on spawning salmon worry Quadra Island residentsEnvironmental | 207635 hits | 3:18 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack
People on Quadra Island, B.C., are concerned that leeches may be killing salmon in a spawning creek. Several dozen chum salmon that had not yet spawned have been found dead by residents. Moose calves rescued in northern B.C. are 'gold nuggets': researcherEnvironmental | 207092 hits | 10:04 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
After months of bottle-feedings and curfews, a pair of moose calves rescued in northern B.C. are thriving and giving hope for other orphaned wildlife in the region.Roy Rea, an instructor at the University of Northern B.C. Some forests aren't growing back after wildfires, research findsEnvironmental | 210014 hits | 3:07 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack
When wildfires burn forests to the ground, some are no longer growing back, new research shows. The findings add to growing evidence that climate change and forest fires are permanently altering forest ecosystems across North America. Arctic report card: Permafrost thawing faster than beforeEnvironmental | 208054 hits | 3:00 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack
Permafrost in the Arctic is thawing faster than ever, according to a new report released Tuesday. Permafrost records show the frozen ground that many buildings, roads and pipelines are built on reached record warm temperatures last year nearing and sometiFrance awards U.S. climate scientists grants to 'Make Our Planet Great Again'
Eighteen climate scientists from the U.S. and elsewhere hit the jackpot Monday as French President Emmanuel Macron awarded them millions of euros in grants to relocate to France for the rest of Donald Trump's presidential term.
Environmental | 207692 hits | 6:43 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Eighteen climate scientists from the U.S. and elsewhere hit the jackpot Monday as French President Emmanuel Macron awarded them millions of euros in grants to relocate to France for the rest of Donald Trump's presidential term. Viral video of emaciated polar bear may not be what it seems, Nunavut bear monitor saysEnvironmental | 207638 hits | 8:10 PM on Monday | posted by Hyack
A viral video of a starving polar bear rummaging through garbage in search of food isn't necessarily the result of climate change, says local man who monitors the animals. Right whales could face extinction after deadly yearEnvironmental | 207220 hits | 9:44 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack
Science officials with the U.S. government say it's time to consider the possibility that endangered right whales could become extinct unless new steps are taken to protect them. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has said there are only Ontario government to use helicopter to move caribou facing wolf attacks off islandEnvironmental | 207720 hits | 10:36 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack
Endangered caribou on an island in Lake Superior will be rounded up, blindfolded and placed inside a helicopter to travel to a new home early next year as the Ontario government tries to save them from a pack of wolves. Raccoon captured and killed near BanffEnvironmental | 207107 hits | 10:16 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack
A rogue raccoon that had been spotted in and around the town of Banff, Alta. in recent months is no more. The trouble, said Hunt, is the fact they're not native to this area, instead preferring a warmer climate found around the Vancouver region in southwe How a pair of Calgary whooping cranes are helping to save their speciesEnvironmental | 208845 hits | 10:58 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
Whooping cranes, which stand nearly six feet tall, are North America's tallest flying bird and among the world's rarest bird, with just 600 alive today.UN signals 'end' of throwaway plastic
The end of the era of throwaway plastic has been signalled by UN environment ministers meeting in Kenya.
Environmental | 207372 hits | 11:44 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
The end of the era of throwaway plastic has been signalled by UN environment ministers meeting in Kenya. After four decades, peregrine falcon may no longer be threatenedEnvironmental | 209720 hits | 3:08 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack
For the first time in four decades, a bird known for its speed could be removed from the list of threatened species in most of Canada. The peregrine falcon, which can fly at speeds up to 320 kilometres per hour, was listed as endangered in 1978. 'Historic agreement': Canada signs High Arctic commercial fishing banEnvironmental | 207417 hits | 6:10 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack
An international deal has been reached to prevent commercial fishing in the High Arctic for at least the next 16 years. It affects Arctic seas that are at least 200 kilometres away from the shores of any coastal states. That amounts to 2.8 million square Agency says U.S., Canada fall short on protecting Great LakesEnvironmental | 210763 hits | 10:54 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
Despite recent improvements, the U.S. and Canada have a long way to go toward ridding the Great Lakes of pollution that endangers human health and the environment, an advisory agency said Tuesday. 'Bit of an echo chamber:' Study finds climate denier blogs ignore scienceEnvironmental | 208064 hits | 10:51 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
An analysis of dozens of blogs that question the threat climate change poses to polar bears has found the writers ignore virtually all the science on bears and sea ice. Snowy owl survives apparent fiery flight through methane flareEnvironmental | 207826 hits | 7:10 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
A snowy owl rescued from an east Edmonton ditch will spend at least a year in care after apparently surviving a flight through a flare. B.C. fish processors spewing potentially dangerous bloodwater into key salmon migration corridorEnvironmental | 208208 hits | 9:23 PM on Monday | posted by Hyack
CTV News has obtained video footage that shows a farmed-salmon processing plant in the Discovery Passage channel off Vancouver Island discharging bloody effluent from a pipe under the water -- effluent that tests have shown contains a highly contagious fiIndonesia raises Bali volcano threat alert to highest level
Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency said on Monday it had raised the alert to the highest level four on Bali's Mount Agung volcano and warned residents in an eight to 10 kilometre radius radius around the volcano to evacuate the area immediately.
Environmental | 209474 hits | 1:19 AM on Monday | posted by Hyack
Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency said on Monday it had raised the alert to the highest level four on Bali's Mount Agung volcano and warned residents in an eight to 10 kilometre radius radius around the volcano to evacuate the area immediately. Researchers hope to find shark mating sites off N.S.Environmental | 212548 hits | 7:40 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack
A social media savvy great white shark is extending his much-watched sojourn in Atlantic Canada, in what one researcher is calling further evidence that Nova Scotia's waters may be a hot spot in the shark mating scene. Ottawa looking at 15 per cent ethanol blend in gasolineEnvironmental | 208104 hits | 10:09 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Currently, gasoline in Canada can contain up to 10 per cent ethanol, but a proposed amendment could raise the maximum to 15 per cent in early 2018 Train derails near Hells Gate, B.C.Environmental | 209087 hits | 2:33 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack
A Canadian Pacific Railway train derailed Thursday morning. Officials have confirmed Friday morning that the derailment resulted in a fuel spill into the Fraser River. The Switch to Outdoor LED Lighting Has Completely BackfiredEnvironmental | 207607 hits | 6:07 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
To reduce energy consumption, many jurisdictions around the world are transitioning to outdoor LED lighting. But as new research shows, this solid-state solution hasn’t yielded the expected energy savings, and potentially worse, it’s resulted in more ligh The Changing Colors of our Living Planet | NASAEnvironmental | 206735 hits | 11:47 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
While NASA began monitoring life on land in the 1970s with the Landsat satellites, this fall marks 20 years since the space agency has continuously observed plant life at the surface of both the land and ocean. Russia confirms spike in radioactivity after nuclear accident claimsEnvironmental | 206951 hits | 6:04 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Russia's meteorological service says it measured pollution of a radioactive isotope at nearly 1,000 times normal levels in the Ural mountains, the first official Russian data supporting reports that a nuclear accident had taken place. 'Very dire situation': Disappearance of Alberta's caribou threatens centuries-old way of lifeEnvironmental | 207393 hits | 11:29 PM on Monday | posted by Hyack
As woodland caribou habitat dwindles, the threatened species' preservation pits the environment against economic interests in rural Alberta. Roads and seismic lines allow wolves to travel two to three times more quickly. The wolf packs then cut into the fEndangered orcas compete with seals, sea lions for salmon
Competition with other marine mammals for the same food may be a bigger problem than fishing, at least in recent years, for southern resident killer whales that spend time in Washington state's Puget Sound, a new study suggests.
Environmental | 206931 hits | 10:38 AM on Monday | posted by Hyack
Competition with other marine mammals for the same food may be a bigger problem than fishing, at least in recent years, for southern resident killer whales that spend time in Washington state's Puget Sound, a new study suggests. Arctic climate change being felt farther south, scientists sayEnvironmental | 206972 hits | 10:17 AM on Monday | posted by Hyack
An international summary of five year's worth of research on Arctic climate change concludes the top of the world is getting warmer faster than anyone thought. Cleanup underway in Squamish, B.C., following diesel spillEnvironmental | 207442 hits | 8:55 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack
The District of Squamish is responding to a diesel spill in the south end of the district's downtown area. Officials say some fuel did leak into a nearby estuary. Canada and U.K. form alliance to phase out coal to combat climate changeEnvironmental | 206761 hits | 8:52 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack
Canada and the United Kingdom have enticed 18 other nations to adopt their mutual goal of weaning themselves off coal-fired power — but at least two provinces are trying to negotiate their way out of the federal government's own domestic plan. Hundreds of dead geese in Canada's Arctic likely succumbed to harsh conditionsEnvironmental | 206794 hits | 8:41 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack
More than a thousand dead geese that washed up on the shore near Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, last August appear to have died of natural causes, including toxicity caused by drinking salt water. Pine beetles from Jasper National Park moving in to commercial forestsEnvironmental | 206945 hits | 8:06 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack
A massive and uncontrollable buildup of mountain pine beetles in Jasper National Park is starting to explode into commercially valuable forests along its boundaries. Pine beetles from Jasper National Park now infesting commercial forestEnvironmental | 207369 hits | 7:00 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
A massive and uncontrollable buildup of mountain pine beetles in Jasper National Park is starting to explode into commercially valuable forests along its boundaries.Back to Canada News
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