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Environmental | 207134 hits | 7:11 PM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
On Chinese social media, people lamented the limits of the state response. 'Waiting for the wind to change is how the government deals with air pollution'
Temperatures in 2015 on track to be record 1 degree C hotterEnvironmental | 206994 hits | 5:13 PM on Monday | posted by andyt
This year is on track to be a record 1 degree Celsius hotter than the average temperature during the late 19th century, marking a symbolic milestone in the global warming that scientists blame on human activities, Britain's weather service said Monday. Canadian Pacific train derails in Wisconsin, spills oilEnvironmental | 206769 hits | 8:56 AM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
A Canadian Pacific Railway train carrying crude oil derailed Sunday in Wisconsin, the second day in a row a freight train derailed in the state.Climate change will push 100 million people into 'extreme poverty' by 2030
Climate change could push more than 100 million people into extreme poverty by 2030 by disrupting agriculture and fueling the spread of malaria and other diseases, the World Bank said in a report Sunday.
Environmental | 206697 hits | 7:33 AM on Monday | posted by andyt
Climate change could push more than 100 million people into extreme poverty by 2030 by disrupting agriculture and fueling the spread of malaria and other diseases, the World Bank said in a report Sunday. Ship leaks 7,500 litres of diesel into St. Lawrence RiverEnvironmental | 206853 hits | 11:37 AM on Sunday | posted by Hyack
Emergency environment services are at the scene of a diesel leak in the St. Lawrence River. Alberta grizzly bear euthanized after search in KananaskisEnvironmental | 206861 hits | 7:44 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack
A 23-year-old grizzly bear was put down Wednesday after she had become too reliant on human food following an awful berry season, Alberta Parks said Friday.Hot weather is now affecting Belgian beer too
One of the most renowned Belgian beer brewers said Friday it is a victim of climate change because increasingly high temperatures have shortened the brewing season by about a month compared with the 1950s.
Environmental | 206669 hits | 4:54 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack
One of the most renowned Belgian beer brewers said Friday it is a victim of climate change because increasingly high temperatures have shortened the brewing season by about a month compared with the 1950s. Montreal sewage dump review by scientific panel urges cautionEnvironmental | 206642 hits | 4:52 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack
A panel of scientists asked to review Montreal's plan to dump eight billion litres of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River has concluded that the city should only proceed with the dump after it looks further into the environmental impact. Bounties on wolves and coyotes slammed as 'inhumane' by Alberta biologistsEnvironmental | 206756 hits | 10:19 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
Two Alberta-based wildlife biologists are calling for an end to bounties offered on wolves and coyotes, calling them "inhumane" and ineffective. Cannibal grizzly Split Lip likely gobbled smaller bear due to food stressEnvironmental | 206777 hits | 10:13 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
A Banff park wildlife specialist says he suspects a 250-kilogram grizzly nicknamed Split Lip gobbled down a smaller grizzly because … he was really, really hungry. Vancouver's Still Creek sees salmon for fourth year runningEnvironmental | 206817 hits | 8:00 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack
Biologists are feeling "pretty excited" about the potential to return city landscapes to their natural states. Still Creek runs through some of Vancouver and Burnaby's most industrialized areas. Chum salmon hadn't swam their way through there for 80 years Environmental | 206721 hits | 1:24 PM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Something spectacular has happened in South America this year. The Atacama desert of Chile, known as the driest non-polar place in the world, erupted in bloom, not once, but twice over the past year, a phenomenon never before seen. United Nations finds 'new era' of global ambition on climate changeEnvironmental | 208049 hits | 6:50 AM on Friday | posted by andyt
The world is on track to make a "significant dent" in cutting greenhouse gas emissions without sacrificing economic growth, according to a new report released today from the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat.Antarctic ozone hole has expanded, UN weather body reports | CTV News
The United Nations' weather body says unusually cold high-altitude conditions have expanded the Antarctic ozone hole to one of the largest sizes on record, though the long-term trend remains one of shrinkage.
Environmental | 207799 hits | 6:56 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
The United Nations' weather body says unusually cold high-altitude conditions have expanded the Antarctic ozone hole to one of the largest sizes on record, though the long-term trend remains one of shrinkage. Persian Gulf may become too hot for humans, study suggestsEnvironmental | 208707 hits | 1:54 AM on Thursday | posted by Winnipegger
A new study published in Nature Climate Change suggests that unless CO2 emissions drop below their current pace, parts of the Persian Gulf will hit temperatures too hot for humans. Following is a look at the study, and why some of the hottest places on Ea LNG plant near Squamish clears first hurdle in environmental assesmentEnvironmental | 207552 hits | 10:02 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack
The Woodfibre LNG planted proposed for Squamish has cleared its first regulatory hurdle after being granted an environmental assessment certificate by the B.C. government. Northern cod population making strong comeback after years of decline: studyEnvironmental | 207794 hits | 1:18 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack
There is growing hope that the once decimated northern cod stock is making a slow, but steady comeback, according to a new study that found the iconic species is growing in size and number off Newfoundland. SS Arrow leaks oil in Chedabucto Bay 45 years after sinking off Nova ScotiaEnvironmental | 207747 hits | 1:17 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack
Divers are removing 20,000 litres of oil left over from one of Nova Scotia's worst oil spills, 45 years after the ship sank in Chedabucto Bay. What was killing the young right whales' New research finds a suspectEnvironmental | 207776 hits | 11:29 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
The baby whales suddenly began dying in 2005. And continued for several years running. Orca baby boom: 6th baby born this year to endangered podEnvironmental | 206838 hits | 3:35 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack
A baby Orca seen Saturday alongside a 38-year-old whale is believed to be the sixth offspring born within the endangered Southern Resident pod, bringing smiles to scientists.Large cluster of great white sharks spotted off Northern California's coast
Experts say a cluster of some 20 great white sharks was recently spotted by the U.S. Coast Guard off Northern California's coast. The San Francisco Chronicle reports Saturday that the sharks were seen swimming together last week about 100 yards (90 metres
Environmental | 206847 hits | 10:47 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack
Experts say a cluster of some 20 great white sharks was recently spotted by the U.S. Coast Guard off Northern California's coast. The San Francisco Chronicle reports Saturday that the sharks were seen swimming together last week about 100 yards (90 metres Trudeau invites May, other leaders to join UN climate summit delegationEnvironmental | 206744 hits | 10:44 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Prime minister designate Justin Trudeau has already invited Green Leader Elizabeth May to be part of the Canadian delegation to the United Nations summit on climate change in Paris at the end of next month, and he intends to invite NDP Leader Tom Mulcair Kokanee spawning in record numbers in Okanagan LakeEnvironmental | 206706 hits | 11:23 AM on Friday | posted by Hyack
It's a natural wonder to behold — thousands of red fish spawning along the rocky shores of Okanagan Lake. Howie Wright, a fish biologist with the Okanagan Nation Alliance, says fish counters haven't seen this many shore spawning kokanee since the 1970's. Tlicho gov't says its members won't hunt Bathurst caribouEnvironmental | 206669 hits | 2:32 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
The Tlicho Government has told the N.W.T. government it will not harvest from the Bathurst caribou herd during the 2015-16 hunting season. Environmental | 206691 hits | 2:09 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
To buy, or not to buy a ski pass on the South Coast this winter? That's the big question that cannot be answered with certainty ... yet.Is sunscreen killing off coral reefs' Oxybenzone found in lotion can cause infertility
Experts from Tel Aviv University say that that the chemical poses an existential threat - even in miniscule concentrations - to the planet's corals and coral reefs.
Environmental | 206784 hits | 12:00 PM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Experts from Tel Aviv University say that that the chemical poses an existential threat - even in miniscule concentrations - to the planet's corals and coral reefs. Global warming will hurt most economies, but boost Canada's, study saysEnvironmental | 206852 hits | 4:55 PM on Wednesday | posted by andyt
With each upward degree, global warming will singe the economies of three-quarters of the world's nations and widen the north-south gap between rich and poor countries, according to a new economic and science study.Antarctic Maximum Sea Ice Extent Breaks Streak of Record Highs | NASA
The sea ice cover of the Southern Ocean reached its yearly maximum extent on Oct. 6. This year's maximum falls roughly in the middle of the record compiled during 37 years of satellite measurements.
Environmental | 206675 hits | 7:23 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
The sea ice cover of the Southern Ocean reached its yearly maximum extent on Oct. 6. This year's maximum falls roughly in the middle of the record compiled during 37 years of satellite measurements. Should we fear The Blob'Environmental | 206887 hits | 11:21 AM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The nickname for a mass of warm water that’s been sitting off the west coast of North America for two years may sound like something out of a sci-fi movie, but “The Blob” is very real for the people of this northern B.C. archipelago who make their living France's top weatherman sparks storm over book questioning climate change
Philippe Verdier, weather chief at France Televisions, the country's state broadcaster, reportedly sent on "forced holiday" for releasing book accusing top climatologists of "taking the world hostage"
Environmental | 206818 hits | 11:48 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Philippe Verdier, weather chief at France Televisions, the country's state broadcaster, reportedly sent on "forced holiday" for releasing book accusing top climatologists of "taking the world hostage"New Concern Over Quakes in Oklahoma Near a Hub of U.S. Oil
A sharp earthquake in central Oklahoma last weekend has raised fresh concern about the security of a vast crude oil storage complex, close to the quake’s center, that sits at the crossroads of the nation’s oil pipeline network.
The magnitude 4.5 quake
Environmental | 206804 hits | 7:47 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
A sharp earthquake in central Oklahoma last weekend has raised fresh concern about the security of a vast crude oil storage complex, close to the quake’s center, that sits at the crossroads of the nation’s oil pipeline network.
The magnitude 4.5 quake The remote Alaskan village that needs to be relocated due to climate change
This tiny and isolated town of 400 cannot be reached by road. It lies on a fragile barrier island along the Chukchi Sea, 83 miles above the Arctic circle. And for generations, the Ińupiat people of the region have hunted gigantic bowhead whales from camps
Environmental | 206731 hits | 7:20 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
This tiny and isolated town of 400 cannot be reached by road. It lies on a fragile barrier island along the Chukchi Sea, 83 miles above the Arctic circle. And for generations, the Ińupiat people of the region have hunted gigantic bowhead whales from campsOsborne's green taxes blamed for power supplies falling to danger level
Figures out this week are expected to show spare capacity in Britain’s electricity generators will be perilously close to zero this winter and could fall even further.
Environmental | 206949 hits | 12:08 AM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Figures out this week are expected to show spare capacity in Britain’s electricity generators will be perilously close to zero this winter and could fall even further.EPA spends millions on military-style weapons, watchdog group reports
The Environmental Protection Agency has spent millions of dollars over the last decade on military-style weapons to arm its 200 "special agents" to fight environmental crime.
Environmental | 206854 hits | 12:12 AM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The Environmental Protection Agency has spent millions of dollars over the last decade on military-style weapons to arm its 200 "special agents" to fight environmental crime. Duck RescueEnvironmental | 206884 hits | 12:15 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Wildlife Rescue Association staff and volunteers will spend their long weekend bathing and rehabilitating 14 ducks they rescued from a contaminated South Surrey pond.Golden Hammer: EPA's fondness for high-end furniture costs taxpayers $92 million
The federal agency that has the job of protecting the environment doesn't seem to have too much concern for trees, at least the ones cut down to make furniture.
Environmental | 206765 hits | 2:20 PM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The federal agency that has the job of protecting the environment doesn't seem to have too much concern for trees, at least the ones cut down to make furniture.E.P.A. Strategist Is Appointed to Fine-Tune Global Warming Agenda
As President Obama doubles down on climate change as a legacy issue, the White House has appointed Thomas Reynolds, a top communications strategist at the Environmental Protection Agency and a seasoned political operative, to a new position dedicated sole
Environmental | 206971 hits | 12:44 PM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
As President Obama doubles down on climate change as a legacy issue, the White House has appointed Thomas Reynolds, a top communications strategist at the Environmental Protection Agency and a seasoned political operative, to a new position dedicated soleDevastating coral bleaching spreads worldwide due to climate change, El Nino | CTV News
Triggered by global warming and the El Nino, record hot ocean water is causing fragile coral to go white and often die, threatening picturesque reefs that are hotspots of marine life, experts say.
Environmental | 206705 hits | 7:45 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Triggered by global warming and the El Nino, record hot ocean water is causing fragile coral to go white and often die, threatening picturesque reefs that are hotspots of marine life, experts say.Solar & Wind Reach a Big Renewables Turning Point : BNEF
Wind power is now the cheapest electricity to produce in both Germany and the U.K., even without government subsidies, according to a new analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). It's the first time that threshold has been crossed by a G7 economy.
Environmental | 206821 hits | 7:30 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Wind power is now the cheapest electricity to produce in both Germany and the U.K., even without government subsidies, according to a new analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). It's the first time that threshold has been crossed by a G7 economy.Environmental | 207346 hits | 1:34 PM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
While the drought has most of us conserving water, one home in Bel Air guzzled nearly 12 million gallons of water in just one year. News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of LA/OCBlue whales' meal planning revealed
A study of blue whales off California's coast that used tags to track their movements and their prey shows the marine behemoths are not indiscriminate grazers, as long thought.
Environmental | 206697 hits | 10:25 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack
A study of blue whales off California's coast that used tags to track their movements and their prey shows the marine behemoths are not indiscriminate grazers, as long thought. Montreal's raw sewage to be dumped into St. Lawrence River as plannedEnvironmental | 206785 hits | 12:08 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack
Despite a public backlash, the City of Montreal will proceed with plans to dump eight billion litres of untreated wastewater into the St. Lawrence River. Carbon tax in Alberta should rise 70 per cent, report saysEnvironmental | 208031 hits | 11:27 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
Jacking up Alberta's carbon tax is the best way to reduce the province's greenhouse gas emissions from power generation, says a government-funded analysis obtained by The Canadian Press. Arctic Explorers 'Blown Away' By Strength Of Heat Rising From The OceanEnvironmental | 208050 hits | 7:13 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
Voyagers have gathered evidence suggesting that a well of heat in the depths of the Arctic ocean could be accelerating that rate at which ice is melting.
As the receding layers of ice increases thCalifornia drought drives cities to filter drinkable water from sewage
California drought means turning sewage into drinking water, and other home-recycling initiatives.
Environmental | 207815 hits | 7:04 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
California drought means turning sewage into drinking water, and other home-recycling initiatives. Thawing permafrost could cost $43 trillion by end of century: new studyEnvironmental | 207605 hits | 7:55 AM on Thursday | posted by andyt
A new study is putting the cost of emissions from thawing permafrost at $43 trillion by the end of this century, including lost agriculture, ecosystems and health impacts.Environmental | 207738 hits | 6:30 AM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The movement’s leader, Dane Wigington, says he’s putting his life on the line to reveal a truth that will shake society to its core. News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of Sacramento Saskatchewan at risk for invasion of zebra mussels, researcher saysEnvironmental | 206789 hits | 4:23 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack
The invasive zebra mussel could yet get into Saskatchewan waters, a risk that is of concern to researchers. Cougar numbers and encounters on the rise in AlbertaEnvironmental | 206800 hits | 12:21 PM on Monday | posted by Hyack
Cougar numbers in Alberta are on the rise — but that doesn’t mean people need to be afraid. Thawing permafrost threatens food security in Jean Marie River, N.W.T.Environmental | 206840 hits | 12:20 PM on Monday | posted by Hyack
Climate change is causing permafrost to thaw in and around Jean Marie River First Nation in the N.W.T. That's gradually turning lichen-rich forested and shrubbed areas — where caribou and moose come to feed — into wetlands, even lakes and ponds.Back to Canada News
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