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Scientists accused of scaremongering, 'overheated claims' with warning to humanity
A recent global "warning to humanity" endorsed by more than 15,000 scientists around the world includes scaremongering and overheated claims while ignoring much of the progress made in recent decades, some experts say.
Environmental | 206601 hits | 12:49 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
A recent global "warning to humanity" endorsed by more than 15,000 scientists around the world includes scaremongering and overheated claims while ignoring much of the progress made in recent decades, some experts say.
'No water, no birds': Wood Buffalo National Park among most threatened, warn international scientistsEnvironmental | 207334 hits | 8:52 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
One of the world's largest groups of conservation scientists says Canada's biggest national park is among the most threatened World Heritage Sites in North America. Scientists accused of scaremongering, 'overheated claims' with warning to humanityEnvironmental | 207412 hits | 8:38 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
A recent global "warning to humanity" endorsed by more than 15,000 scientists around the world includes scaremongering and overheated claims while ignoring much of the progress made in recent decades, some experts say. B.C. First Nation says it has created world-class oil spill response planEnvironmental | 207319 hits | 2:06 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
A British Columbia First Nation has released a plan it says will give it a leading role in oil spill prevention and response on the province's central coast. Court orders end to occupation of B.C. fish farm, pending hearingEnvironmental | 207282 hits | 1:25 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
Several people have been occupying Marine Harvest Canada's aquaculture site on Midsummer Island, east of Port Hardy in the Broughton Archipelago, for more than two months. Whopper of a salmon caught in B.C. all part of conservation programEnvironmental | 207012 hits | 8:31 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack
The Percy Walkus Hatchery catches the big fish as part of its conservation program. The Percy Walkus Hatchery caught the massive chinook along the Wannock River, about 80 kilometres southwest of Bella Coola. It weighed more than 50 pounds. Residents in B.C. ask Parks Canada to consider other options, not kill beaversEnvironmental | 207147 hits | 5:43 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack
A battle over beavers is brewing on South Pender Island, B.C., where residents are vowing to save the animals from being destroyed. More than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries issue 'warning to humanity'Environmental | 210278 hits | 11:33 AM on Monday | posted by Strutz
Over 15,000 scientists around the world have issued a global warning: there needs to be change in order to save Earth. Ottawa to order ships to give right whales a 100-metre buffer zone in GulfEnvironmental | 207316 hits | 9:11 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
Ottawa will order boats to give right whales a 100-metre buffer zone as it looks at every possible option to protect the endangered mammals in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, says Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc. How rising sea levels could impact Canada's coastal citiesEnvironmental | 207812 hits | 8:45 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
From the slow-paced, tree-lined streets of downtown Charlottetown to the modern, western architecture of metro Vancouver, Canada's urban waterfronts are a beacon for condo developers, tourists and everyone in between. Halibut spared as beluga move on to new prey in warming Arctic watersEnvironmental | 207327 hits | 8:40 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
Climate change seems to be driving a tiny fish species northward as Arctic waters grow warmer thanks to climate change — and they're getting gobbled up by whales that would normally find larger fish more tantalizing. Western Canada's ice age melt offers preview for modern climate changeEnvironmental | 207430 hits | 8:28 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
New discoveries about the demise of the ice sheet that covered Western Canada at the end of the last ice age offer a preview of what we can expect as Greenland melts due to human-caused climate change.New Delhi declares emergency as toxic smog thickens by the hour
The Indian capital declared a pollution emergency on Thursday as toxic smog hung over the city for a third day and air quality worsened by the hour.
Environmental | 207102 hits | 10:50 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
The Indian capital declared a pollution emergency on Thursday as toxic smog hung over the city for a third day and air quality worsened by the hour.Brown booby seabird seen in California islands for first time
A seabird known as the brown booby is nesting for the first time in California's Channel Islands National Park.
Environmental | 207281 hits | 11:42 AM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
A seabird known as the brown booby is nesting for the first time in California's Channel Islands National Park. Changes can be made right now to save right whales, says fishermanEnvironmental | 210101 hits | 11:24 AM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
Fishermen in Nova Scotia's snow crab industry say there's no need to wait for new government regulations to make changes that will save North Atlantic right whales. 2017 set to be among top 3 hottest years, UN weather agency saysEnvironmental | 207403 hits | 9:43 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack
The U.N.'s weather and climate agency says 2017 is set to become the hottest year on record aside from those impacted by the El Nino phenomenon.Hundreds of dead sea turtles found off El Salvador
A team of investigators headed out to waters off the coast of El Salvador after hundreds of endangered sea turtles were found dead under mysterious circumstances.
Environmental | 207638 hits | 7:54 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack
A team of investigators headed out to waters off the coast of El Salvador after hundreds of endangered sea turtles were found dead under mysterious circumstances. 'Extremely close to being gone forever': B.C. fisheries manager says feds failing Interior steelheadEnvironmental | 207527 hits | 8:36 PM on Monday | posted by Hyack
Despite decades of meetings, summits and action plans created by provincial, federal and First Nations authorities, steelhead numbers continue to decline to dangerously low levels. Province introducing emergency 'maternal pen' to protect young caribou at risk of disappearingEnvironmental | 207345 hits | 6:35 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
The province is conducting what it is calling an "urgent intervention" to keep B.C.'s South Selkirk mountain caribou population alive. Nova Scotia watersheds recovering from decades of acid rainEnvironmental | 207327 hits | 6:26 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
Lakes damaged by acid rain are coming back to life in Nova Scotia faster than anyone expected — and the recovery has added expenses for Halifax Water. Rideau Canal's downtown stretch declared contaminated siteEnvironmental | 207042 hits | 6:23 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
A picturesque part of the Rideau Canal running through downtown Ottawa is now on a list of contaminated federal sites, Parks Canada announced Thursday. Caribou protections threatened by illegally reopened road in northeastern B.C.Environmental | 207044 hits | 4:44 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
A caribou restoration project in northeast B.C. has suffered a major setback after somebody illegally restored a road that had been deactivated to help protect calves from wolves and other predators. Rats reinvade 2 islands in Gwaii Haanas National Park ReserveEnvironmental | 207148 hits | 3:44 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
Scientists and researchers have spent years trying to eradicate rats from islands in Haida Gwaii, B.C., and for a time they were successful, but the unwelcome rodents have returned. Woodland caribou continue to decline as provinces fail to meet protection deadlineEnvironmental | 207954 hits | 10:39 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Five years after they were forced to come up with strategies to protect habitat for the boreal caribou, not a single province has met that deadline, according to a federal government progress report released today. Emaciated sea lion rescued by Vancouver Aquarium Environmental | 208094 hits | 5:56 PM on Monday | posted by Hyack
A sickly California sea lion is recuperating at the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Centre after it was rescued from a Vancouver Island beach. Headwinds caused by warm weather a danger to migratory birdsEnvironmental | 207692 hits | 3:28 PM on Monday | posted by Hyack
An unseasonably warm autumn in Nova Scotia could create a deadly challenge for some migratory birds, according to biologists. Global CO2 levels reach record high, UN weather agency saysEnvironmental | 207597 hits | 7:31 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
The U.N. weather agency is warning that carbon-dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere increased at record-breaking speed last year. No salmon return to Canada river, bringing New England fearsEnvironmental | 207709 hits | 11:00 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack
A conservation group's discovery that no wild Atlantic salmon have returned to a key river in New Brunswick is prompting concern for the fish's population health in the U.S. and eastern Canada. Feds ask boaters to stay 200 metres from B.C.'s southern resident orcasEnvironmental | 209725 hits | 8:39 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc says there will be regulations in place before the spring to ensure no boat comes within 200 metres of southern resident killer whales in Canadian waters. B.C.'s grizzly bear conservation strategy failing, according to new reportEnvironmental | 208309 hits | 2:19 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
B.C.'s contentious grizzly hunt may grab all the headlines but when it comes to the long-term survival of the animal, the most serious threat is destruction of habitat, says a new report. Canada's fossil fuel use to peak in 2019, National Energy Board now projectsEnvironmental | 208224 hits | 12:01 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
The National Energy Board now projects fossil fuel use in Canada will peak in 2019, a major downward revision of similar estimates it has made annually for the past decade. B.C.'s grizzly bear conservation strategy failing, according to new reportEnvironmental | 208356 hits | 5:20 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
B.C.'s contentious grizzly hunt may grab all the headlines but when it comes to the long-term survival of the animal, the most serious threat is destruction of habitat, says a new report. Relocating fish farms a possible fix for standoff, B.C. minister saysEnvironmental | 208048 hits | 5:16 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
British Columbia's Agriculture Minister says changes are needed to protect wild salmon stocks on the West Coast — and one of those changes may be the relocation of fish farms in the Broughton Archipelago. 16th North Atlantic right whale found dead off Cape CodEnvironmental | 208103 hits | 8:17 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack
A 16th North Atlantic right whale has been found dead off the coast of Massachusetts, the International Fund for Animal Welfare says. New chemical cocktails found in Hudson Bay polar bears | CTV NewsEnvironmental | 207199 hits | 2:07 PM on Monday | posted by Hyack
New tests have found a wide range of previously undiscovered contaminants in polar bears around Hudson Bay. The new study complicates our understanding of the complex cocktail of chemicals the bears are exposed to as they try to adapt to changing climate. CO2 benefits of regrowing forests nothing to sniff atEnvironmental | 207261 hits | 8:16 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
It’s a common suggestion that we should just plant trees to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere, but this isn’t quite the solution it may seem. Reforestation would roughly make up for the carbon added to the atmosphere by past deforestation, but our burning of Right whales could be 20 years away from certain extinction, scientists sayEnvironmental | 207533 hits | 7:41 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
Scientists at an annual meeting for North Atlantic right whales estimate the species has a little over two decades left to survive unless changes are made immediately. Pollution is deadlier than war, smoking and hunger combined: studyEnvironmental | 207231 hits | 7:05 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
One out of every six premature deaths in the world in 2015 — about nine million — could be attributed to disease from toxic exposure. More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areasEnvironmental | 207228 hits | 5:57 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Global declines in insects have sparked wide interest among scientists, politicians, and the general public. Loss of insect diversity and abundance is expected to provoke cascading effects on food webs and to jeopardize ecosystem services. Our understandiPenguins die in 'catastrophic' Antarctic breeding season
Only two chicks survived in a colony of 36,000 in a "catastrophic" breeding season in east Antarctica.
Environmental | 208397 hits | 9:08 AM on Saturday | posted by Tricks
Only two chicks survived in a colony of 36,000 in a "catastrophic" breeding season in east Antarctica. The world�s first �negative emissions� plant has opened in Iceland�turning carbon dioxide into stoneEnvironmental | 207605 hits | 6:23 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
There�s a colorless, odorless, and largely benign gas that humanity just can�t get enough of. We produce 40 trillion kg of carbon dioxide each year, and we�re on track to cross a crucial emissions threshold that will cause global temperature rise toA giant hole has opened up in Antarctica as scientists look to find out what is to blame
Environmental | 207251 hits | 6:06 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Tokyo preparing for floods 'beyond anything we've seen' | News update, news roundup | Tampa Bay TimesEnvironmental | 207617 hits | 6:14 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
KASUKABE, Japan — The cavernous underground cisterns here north of Tokyo could hold the Statue of Liberty, a scale that underscores the site's immense task: protecting the world's most populous metropolis from flooding.Packs of radioactive wild boar are making farmers in Sweden nervous
Farmers fear the high radiation in the animals will stop hunters shooting them, causing the population to spiral with more of them damaging forests and crops
Environmental | 208243 hits | 2:13 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Farmers fear the high radiation in the animals will stop hunters shooting them, causing the population to spiral with more of them damaging forests and crops Provinces fail to meet deadline to protect threatened boreal forest caribou habitatsEnvironmental | 209597 hits | 6:38 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack
The provinces has failed to meet a federal deadline to release plans to protect boreal forests habitats and caribou populations. 'A very large-scale problem': B.C. sees more than 20,000 human-wildlife conflicts in 2017Environmental | 210899 hits | 6:35 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack
More than 14,000 of the complaints were about black bears, while another 1,500 involved cougars and 430 were about grizzly bears. Nearly 500 bears have been destroyed after encounters with humans, including 469 black bears and 27 grizzlies. Attack of the clones: Sperm-stealing Prussian carp threaten to overwhelm Alberta waterwaysEnvironmental | 207838 hits | 11:48 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Schools of Prussian carp — a sperm-stealing fish capable of cloning itself — are invading Alberta waterways. Controversial pesticides found in honey samples from six continentsEnvironmental | 207634 hits | 11:07 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Neonicotinoids are at the centre of a long-running debate about whether they harm bees. Fraser River salmon impacted by floodgates, according to new SFU studyEnvironmental | 207645 hits | 8:40 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
Faulty floodgates along the Fraser River are having harmful effects on salmon stocks, according to a new SFU study.Back to Canada News
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