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Toxins found in marine life in deepest part of Pacific Ocean
Shrimp-like creatures living in the deepest parts of the oceans contain high levels of man-made toxins, scientists said on Monday. In one sample, PCB levels were 50 times higher than in crabs in one of China's most polluted rivers.
Environmental | 206824 hits | 9:50 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack
Shrimp-like creatures living in the deepest parts of the oceans contain high levels of man-made toxins, scientists said on Monday. In one sample, PCB levels were 50 times higher than in crabs in one of China's most polluted rivers.Fears of exploding whales as New Zealand clears carcasses
The grim task of clearing hundreds of washed-up whale carcasses was under way in New Zealand Tuesday, with the beach closed over fears the bodies will fill with gas and explode as they decompose.
Environmental | 206742 hits | 5:48 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack
The grim task of clearing hundreds of washed-up whale carcasses was under way in New Zealand Tuesday, with the beach closed over fears the bodies will fill with gas and explode as they decompose.Around 2.2 million deaths in India and China from air pollution
Air pollution is the leading environmental cause of death on the planet and 92 percent of the global population is living in areas where the air is unhealthy, according to a new report.
Environmental | 206725 hits | 11:29 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Air pollution is the leading environmental cause of death on the planet and 92 percent of the global population is living in areas where the air is unhealthy, according to a new report.
Alberta farmer takes to frozen field to salvage oat crop, video goes viralEnvironmental | 206948 hits | 8:14 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Clarence Ewasiw’s combine churns through the icy furrows, flinging straw into the snow. It’s a strange sight in February, even for an agricultural stronghold like Alberta’s Thorhild County. Banned chemicals from the '70s found in the deepest reaches of the oceanEnvironmental | 206636 hits | 9:29 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
A study, led by Newcastle University's Dr Alan Jamieson, has uncovered the first evidence that man-made pollutants have now reached the farthest corners of our earth.Trump Administration Delays Listing Bumblebee as Endangered
The rusty patched bumblebee was once common across the East Coast and much of the Midwest but its numbers have plummeted since the late 1990s
Environmental | 206939 hits | 8:14 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
The rusty patched bumblebee was once common across the East Coast and much of the Midwest but its numbers have plummeted since the late 1990s Alberta on track to have worst air quality in CanadaEnvironmental | 206541 hits | 5:06 PM on Thursday | posted by Alta_redneck
Why rayon is killing industry workers: author Paul Blanc
It's been part of the fabric of our lives for more than a century, but what you might not know about rayon is the dangerous process used to make its silky smooth fibres is killing many industry workers.
Environmental | 207009 hits | 10:24 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
It's been part of the fabric of our lives for more than a century, but what you might not know about rayon is the dangerous process used to make its silky smooth fibres is killing many industry workers. Wild bison roam Banff National Park for 1st time in more than centuryEnvironmental | 206726 hits | 5:01 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
The first wild bison to roam Banff National Park in more than a century have been transported to a remote valley in a "historic homecoming" aimed at re-establishing a thriving herd.World leaders duped by manipulated global warming data
The Mail on Sunday today reveals evidence that the organisation that is the world’s leading source of climate data rushed to publish a landmark paper that exaggerated global warming.
Environmental | 207311 hits | 3:34 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The Mail on Sunday today reveals evidence that the organisation that is the world’s leading source of climate data rushed to publish a landmark paper that exaggerated global warming.Whale euthanized after 30 plastic bags clog its stomach: researchers
An autopsy carried out on Thursday on a beached whale, which was found on the island of Sotra near Bergen last weekend, showed it had 30 plastic bags in its stomach as well as other plastic items.
Environmental | 206859 hits | 10:30 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
An autopsy carried out on Thursday on a beached whale, which was found on the island of Sotra near Bergen last weekend, showed it had 30 plastic bags in its stomach as well as other plastic items. Comment: Crazy times in the ArcticEnvironmental | 206606 hits | 4:59 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
I have studied the climate of the Arctic since the early 1980s. In that time, I�ve had a front row seat from which to observe the radical transformation of the region as I�ve been involved in research on the Arctic�s atmosphere, sea ice, ocean circuFrance's wild hamsters being turned into 'crazed cannibals' by diet of corn | World news | The Guardian
Starving rodents in north-eastern France are suffering from vitamin deficiencies that prompt them to eat their own young
Environmental | 207750 hits | 5:22 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
Starving rodents in north-eastern France are suffering from vitamin deficiencies that prompt them to eat their own youngU.S. solar industry passes oil, coal and gas for job creation | Computerworld
In 2016, the solar workforce in the U.S. increased by 25% to 374,000 employees, compared to 187,117 electrical generation jobs in the coal, gas and oil industries.
Environmental | 208009 hits | 5:21 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
In 2016, the solar workforce in the U.S. increased by 25% to 374,000 employees, compared to 187,117 electrical generation jobs in the coal, gas and oil industries. Don't feed the turkeys! Kimberley urged to outlaw feeding big birdsEnvironmental | 208055 hits | 9:27 PM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
It's common sense not to feed wild bears and deer, but now provincial officials are urging Kimberley residents to quit feeding wild turkeys.Trump bans EPA employees from updating public via press or social media
President Trump has installed specific prohibitions banning press releases, blog updates or posts to the agency’s social media accounts.
Environmental | 207843 hits | 11:53 AM on Tuesday | posted by Robair
President Trump has installed specific prohibitions banning press releases, blog updates or posts to the agency’s social media accounts. These unsettling images from NASA show just how fast Earth is changingEnvironmental | 208049 hits | 6:17 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
We're know that Earth is changing in dramatic ways on a daily basis, but sometimes you need a bird's eye view – or a satellite feed – to really appreciate the evolution of our planet.White House climate change webpage disappears after Trump's inauguration
The removal of the page from the White House’s website came around the same time the site and other Executive Branch digital platforms were overhauled to reflect the new administration.
Environmental | 207900 hits | 1:06 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The removal of the page from the White House’s website came around the same time the site and other Executive Branch digital platforms were overhauled to reflect the new administration. Trump administration's energy policy aims to revive America's coal industryEnvironmental | 208079 hits | 3:13 PM on Friday | posted by herbie
Less than an hour after the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump, the new administration posted a document on the White House website outlining its energy policy, which aims to focus on gas and oil, and reviving the coal industry.In latest move, China halts over 100 coal power projects
China's energy regulator has ordered 11 provinces to stop more than 100 coal-fired power projects, with a combined installed capacity of more than 100 gigawatts, its latest dramatic step to curb the use of fossil fuels in the world's top energy market.
Environmental | 207602 hits | 5:06 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
China's energy regulator has ordered 11 provinces to stop more than 100 coal-fired power projects, with a combined installed capacity of more than 100 gigawatts, its latest dramatic step to curb the use of fossil fuels in the world's top energy market. Alaska volcano erupts again, sends ash cloud to 31,000 feetEnvironmental | 207710 hits | 9:35 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
An Alaska volcano active since mid-December has erupted again. Bogoslof Volcano in the Aleutian lslands erupted at 1:20 p.m. Wednesday and sent up an ash cloud estimated at 31,000 feet. Again, Grits got it wrong with closure of coal-fired power plantsEnvironmental | 206940 hits | 12:30 PM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
A new Fraser Institute study by
economists Ross McKitrick and Elmira
Aliakbari directly challenges the
major financial justification
Ontario’s Liberal government gives for
closing down its five coal-powered
electricity plants. Contaminated mine 'an embarrassment to Canada', says Yukon judgeEnvironmental | 207361 hits | 9:30 AM on Wednesday | posted by Dr Caleb
Yukon Supreme Court Justice Ron Veale has delivered a strongly-worded 'wake up call' to Canadian taxpayers, who are now on the hook for another expensive mine cleanup in Yukon - the abandoned Mount Nansen site. New technologies expected to boost profits and limit emissions from the oilsandsEnvironmental | 206766 hits | 6:14 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
A CIBC research report predicts that new technologies will greatly reduce the cost and environmental impact of building new oilsands projects over the next five years. Sunken tugboat a consequence of letting foreign crews in Canadian waters, says unionEnvironmental | 206746 hits | 8:23 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
Over 200 maritime workers gathered in Vancouver, Victoria and Prince Rupert Thursday to protest what they view as "an attack on jobs" from the federal Liberal government. 'We shouldn't be fooled by good-looking liberals': Jane Fonda blasts TrudeauEnvironmental | 206881 hits | 3:43 PM on Wednesday | posted by ShepherdsDog
Actress and activist Jane Fonda blasts Canada's prime minister at a panel discussion in Edmonton on Alberta's oilsands, accusing him of betraying his government's commitments made at the Paris climate talks. Don't let climate alarmists muzzle your skepticism Environmental | 207127 hits | 5:20 PM on Saturday | posted by Alta_redneck
NDP demands removal of Wildrose critic over climate change row | Alberta | NewsEnvironmental | 207290 hits | 9:50 AM on Wednesday | posted by Alta_redneck
The NDP is calling for the removal of the Wildrose renewables and electricity critic, who insists the science of man-made climate change isn�t settled.Don MacIntyre's latest comments came Monday at a news
conference about the new carbon tax, but the o Orca 'Granny,' aged 105, missing and presumed deadEnvironmental | 207155 hits | 3:24 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack
One of the oldest known killer whales in the West Coast's southern resident population is missing and presumed dead, researchers say.Environmental | 207063 hits | 3:06 PM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The taxpayer-funded DeltaStream project in Pembrokeshire in Wales, was designed to use the flow of the ocean with a 39ft turbine installed on the seabed near Ramsey Island. Hunters urged to switch to copper ammo after bald eagle dies of lead poisoningEnvironmental | 208040 hits | 10:19 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack
The veterinarian and founder of the Cobequid Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre is frustrated after a bald eagle died Tuesday from lead poisoning that measured at "over maximum toxicity" levels. Dozens of eagles electrocuted by power pole perch in B.C.Environmental | 207905 hits | 9:36 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
Dozens of bald eagles that have flocked to British Columbia's Lower Mainland this year have been killed after they perched on power poles instead of trees. Arctic temperatures soar to 30 C above normalEnvironmental | 208221 hits | 12:02 PM on Friday | posted by andyt
'Southerners think it's just about whether we're going to have a white Christmas and skinny polar bears,' a climatologist says about the Arctic being the warmest place on Earth. 'But for northern people, it's a life or death situation.' He predicts the si Alberta's climate change 'leadership' paved way for pipeline approvals, says Justin TrudeauEnvironmental | 208007 hits | 4:07 PM on Wednesday | posted by andyt
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it was the Alberta government’s leadership role in tackling climate change that allowed him to approve two major pipeline projects. Canadian Prairies shrinking faster than Amazon Rainforest, Great Barrier ReefEnvironmental | 207540 hits | 12:49 PM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Conservationists says it's time to act to save the Canadian Prairies, which are disappearing off the face of the Earth faster than the Amazon rainforest and the Great Barrier Reef.Trump picks leading EPA critic to head agency
Donald Trump intends to nominate a chief critic of the EPA to be its next head, a source confirmed Wednesday.
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt will be named the next Environmental Protection Agency administrator, the source said.
Pruitt, who w
Environmental | 206812 hits | 12:29 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Donald Trump intends to nominate a chief critic of the EPA to be its next head, a source confirmed Wednesday.
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt will be named the next Environmental Protection Agency administrator, the source said.
Pruitt, who w 'Thousands' of geese die in toxic Montana pit mineEnvironmental | 206945 hits | 5:13 PM on Wednesday | posted by Alta_redneck
On 28 November, mine workers used "bird hazing" techniques to try to frighten the birds and prevent them from landing in the water, which is acidic enough to dissolve a motorboat's steel propeller, according to researchers.My Unhappy Life as a Climate Heretic
Roger Pielke Jr., writes that his research was attacked by thought police in journalism, activist groups funded by billionaires and even the White House.
Environmental | 206773 hits | 2:38 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Roger Pielke Jr., writes that his research was attacked by thought police in journalism, activist groups funded by billionaires and even the White House. Environmental | 208070 hits | 1:05 PM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
The department does not believe hunting is a factor in the decline, saying caribou killed by hunters account for a small portion of overall deathsStunning new data indicates El Nino drove record highs in global temperatures
Global average temperatures over land have plummeted by more than 1C
Comes amid mounting evidence run of record temperatures about to end
The fall, revealed by Nasa satellites, has been caused by the end of El Nino
Environmental | 208309 hits | 1:04 AM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Global average temperatures over land have plummeted by more than 1C
Comes amid mounting evidence run of record temperatures about to end
The fall, revealed by Nasa satellites, has been caused by the end of El NinoCalifornia targets dairy cows to combat global warming
California is taking its fight against global warming to the farm. The nation's leading agricultural state is now targeting greenhouse gases produced by dairy cows and other livestock.
Environmental | 208137 hits | 12:56 AM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
California is taking its fight against global warming to the farm. The nation's leading agricultural state is now targeting greenhouse gases produced by dairy cows and other livestock.Dakota Access protest camp to be shut down by Army: Standing Rock chairman
Environmental | 206775 hits | 3:10 PM on Saturday | posted by Alta_redneck
Oshawa mayor says $3,600 worth of power used should not result in $151,000 streetlight billEnvironmental | 207527 hits | 9:57 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Oshawa spent more than $150,000 to keep the street lights on in June of 2015. Of that, only about $3,600 was for power, the rest was delivery, regulatory and debt retirement charges, HST, and a whopping $62,325.42 for “Global Adjustment.” Global carbon emissions flatline continuesEnvironmental | 206893 hits | 8:55 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Latest update to greenhouse gas ledger is encouraging. Canada may already be carbon neutral, so why are we keeping it a secret'Environmental | 206873 hits | 3:05 PM on Sunday | posted by Alta_redneck
'Largest' recorded chum salmon run: 2 million fish overload nets, burden boatsEnvironmental | 207112 hits | 8:15 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack
Record numbers of chum salmon — two million fish — returned to B.C's West Coast this year, bringing good news for fishermen fatigued by word of record lows of Fraser River sockeye. China goes from red-alert pollution to green energyEnvironmental | 207996 hits | 6:42 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
China has a reputation for lung-choking smog — a country that runs on coal, where smokestacks at outdated steel factories belch black air. But tackling pollution has become a national priority, and the pace of change is often mind-boggling.Countries reach agreement on world's largest marine reserve in Antarctica
The countries that decide the fate of Antarctica reached an historic agreement on Friday to create the world's largest marine protected area in the ocean next to the frozen continent.
Environmental | 208296 hits | 9:41 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
The countries that decide the fate of Antarctica reached an historic agreement on Friday to create the world's largest marine protected area in the ocean next to the frozen continent.Strange Pumping Effect above Asia Threatens the Ozone Layer
An atmospheric mechanism is lofting Indian and Chinese pollution into the stratosphere
Environmental | 207748 hits | 9:18 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
An atmospheric mechanism is lofting Indian and Chinese pollution into the stratosphere World wildlife 'falls by 58% in 40 years'Environmental | 208279 hits | 7:27 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
The Living Planet assessment, by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and WWF, suggests that if the trend continues that decline could reach two-thirds among vertebrates by 2020.
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