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With future uncertain, Colorado shields its water
DENVER (AP) — With demand increasing across the West, Colorado is drawing up a strategy to keep some of the trillions of gallons of water that gushes out of the Rocky Mountains every spring — most of which flows downstream to drought-stricken California,

Until this year, Andrew Derocher was convinced Canada’s High Arctic islands, where the sea so far remains frozen, would always support some polar bears while populations declined elsewhere.
But a new study modelling melting sea ice shows that won’t lik
Bill C-22 would rewrite the rules for oil spill cleanups
Concern is growing around Bill C-22, which would change the rules around oil spill cleanups. The technology for cleaning up oil spills, such as using chemical dispersants, is not widely understood, and its impacts on Arctic waters has yet to be fully deba
Rare 'frost flowers' form on B.C. lake
While these bizarre “frost flowers” may seem like something sprung from the imaginations of the creators of Disney’s “Frozen,” they’re actually a real – if very rare – phenomenon.
Antarctic sea ice measured by underwater robot
Measuring the thickness of Antarctic sea ice, an important gauge of environmental conditions in this remote polar region in a time of global climate change, has proven to be a tricky task. But an underwater robot is providing a nice solution.

Lakes in the Canadian Shield are slowly becoming "jellified," a legacy of acid rain that changed the water chemistry and has made life easier for a tiny crustacean with a big jelly blob on its back.
September 2014 was the hottest on record
U.S. meteorologists say 2014 is on track to break the record for the hottest year on record after a monthly temperature record was broken for the fourth time in five months.
Changing rainfall a worldwide problem | Globalnews.ca
Authors of a United Nations-sponsored book say that flooding in Alberta, toxic algae blooms in Lake Winnipeg and wildfires in Siberia are all connected and that the world can no longer ignore the effects of climate change.
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