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Environmental | 206775 hits | 7:59 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack

The world's precious few remaining large forests are fragmenting at an alarming rate, and the amount of degradation in Canada leads the world, threatening species such as woodland caribou, a new analysis suggests.

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Environmental | 207010 hits | 12:15 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Carl Walters was once a hard-line protectionist on Fraser sockeye but suppressing catches can be ruinous for the fish and fishermen, he now argues

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Environmental | 206450 hits | 3:28 PM on Thursday | posted by Goober911

A federal judge ruled on Thursday that BP was grossly negligent in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil well blowout that killed 11 workers, spilled millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and soiled hundreds of miles of beaches. “BP’s conduct was re

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Environmental | 206488 hits | 1:30 PM on Thursday | posted by BeaverFever

One month after the tailings pond breached at the Mount Polley mine near Likely, B.C., the mine's operator now says the amount of contaminated water and waste that spilled into the ecosystem was nearly twice as much as originally estimated.

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Environmental | 206625 hits | 7:31 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

The Gulf of Maine is warming faster than more than 99 percent of the world’s oceans, prompting fears about the future of one of the Atlantic's most unusual ecosystems and the industries it supports.

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Environmental | 206954 hits | 1:51 PM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Global warming could send more frequent winter 'super chills' through parts of North America, Europe and Asia, a new study suggests.

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Environmental | 207209 hits | 1:16 AM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog

The 920 horsepower (680 kW) Quant e-Sportlimousine, developed by Lictenstein-based NanoFlowcell, uses an electrolyte flow cell power system to power four electric motors.

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Environmental | 207822 hits | 10:40 AM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

A June survey of the Northwest Territories’ barren ground caribou calving grounds suggest both the Bluenose-East and the Bathurst caribou herds ‘are declining at an alarming rate.’

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Environmental | 207831 hits | 10:37 AM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

Chester, the false killer whale calf found stranded on a Tofino, B.C., beach in July, continues to show signs of improvement and has been moved to a larger pool at the Vancouver Aquarium.

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Environmental | 207844 hits | 12:56 AM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Seven years after Al Gore's warning the Arctic ice cap is far from vanishing and has expanded for the second year in succession.

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Environmental | 207679 hits | 11:18 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

The dangers that plastics pose to wildlife and waterways is well known. Most of us have seen pictures of turtles tangled in plastic shopping bags, or seabirds strangled by sixpack rings. What is harder to see and take pictures of is the damage being done

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Environmental | 207673 hits | 8:48 AM on Friday | posted by Hyack

Seabird experts are deeply worried about the state of Canada's northern gannet population, with chicks appearing to be starving to death while their parents struggle to find food.

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Environmental | 207660 hits | 8:30 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

With the United Nations' climate change panel warning this week that global warming is already affecting the planet, and calling for urgent action, Shell Canada announced it's put in place the final module for its carbon capture and storage project to red

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Environmental | 207833 hits | 11:33 AM on Thursday | posted by Hyack

The worst forest fire season in decades has ravaged about 33,000 square kilometres of land — an area larger than the size of Vancouver Island. Now people are wondering how animal populations will be affected.

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Environmental | 207618 hits | 6:36 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

The climate impacts of the world's fossil-fuelled power plants are being underestimated because of poor accounting, say researchers.

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Environmental | 206451 hits | 7:11 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Seattle WA (SPX) Aug 18, 2014 - New research led by NASA and the University of Washington, Seattle, confirms that springtime snow on sea ice in the Arctic has thinned significantly in the last 50 years, by about a third in the Wes

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Environmental | 207786 hits | 12:14 AM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog

B.C. Hydro insists its spiffy new smart meters have not caused any fires, even though the technology has been blamed for blazes in other jurisdictions.

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Environmental | 207667 hits | 2:28 PM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog

A lobsterman says one of his traps caught a one-in-two-million crustacean: a blue lobster.

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Environmental | 207750 hits | 10:45 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

Scientists studying the ravaged caribou habitat of Alberta's northwestern foothills say they have found so much disturbance from decades of industrial use that restoration of the terrain will have to be selective.

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Environmental | 207783 hits | 7:50 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

Researchers say they have discovered more than 500 bubbling methane vents on the seafloor off the US east coast. The unexpected discovery indicates there are large volumes of the gas contained in a type of sludgy ice called methane hydrate.

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Environmental | 206435 hits | 2:03 PM on Sunday | posted by Goober911

Project could power Rwanda for decades, while reducing risk of disaster for 2 million people living alongside 'exploding lake'

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Environmental | 206665 hits | 11:52 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack

A young killer whale is trapped in a fisherman's net. A pod of distressed whales cries out frantically as the youngster struggles to get free. Sightseers aboard a whale-watching boat off Vancouver Island are stunned at what they see.

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Environmental | 206885 hits | 2:21 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Consumers warned to act quickly before top-rated powerful vacuum cleaners sell out forever. Many of the best vacuum cleaners for sale in the UK will be banned as a result of new EU energy efficiency rules that come into force next month

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Environmental | 206603 hits | 10:26 AM on Thursday | posted by Hyack

Beluga whales are proving to be charming participants in the latest webcam project of explore.org as it livestreams the animals where the Churchill River meets Hudson Bay in northern Manitoba.

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Environmental | 206649 hits | 6:24 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

Earth's atmosphere contains an unexpectedly large amount of an ozone-depleting compound from an unknown source decades after the compound was banned.

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Environmental | 206727 hits | 12:31 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog

The Endangered Species Act has wreaked havoc for decades on rural communities, but a newly filed lawsuit could force San Francisco urbanites like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to share their pain.

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Environmental | 206634 hits | 2:28 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack

Tourists on an Alaskan fishing boat caught a rare glimpse of how a killer whale stalks and kills its prey after witnessing an orca tossing a sea lion into the air.

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Environmental | 206582 hits | 12:34 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack

An orphaned, yearling grizzly dubbed Littlefoot is once again wandering free in the wilds of southeastern British Columbia, saved by a unique pilot project between the province and two animal welfare groups.

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Environmental | 206929 hits | 8:37 AM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack

An online tool created by environmental non-profit group ForestEthics charts oil train routes across North America, allowing Canadians and Americans to determine exactly how close they live to the "blast zone."

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Environmental | 206993 hits | 8:57 AM on Tuesday | posted by Regina

Thousands of small intense earthquakes are rocking Iceland amid concerns that one of the country's volcanoes may be close to erupting, putting airlines on alert.

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Environmental | 206577 hits | 12:55 AM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Iceland warned airlines that there may be an eruption at one of the island’s largest volcanoes located underneath Vatnajokull, Europe’s biggest glacier.

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Environmental | 206701 hits | 12:29 AM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant's concentrated sun rays — "streamers," for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair. Federal wildlife investigators who vis

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Environmental | 206622 hits | 4:49 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

Steveston residents say they're fed up with a growing chorus of bullfrogs that is keeping them up at night, but the provincial government says there's not a lot it can do.

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Environmental | 206830 hits | 4:11 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

There have been an "unprecedented" number of wildlife incidents in Banff National Park this year, says a wildlife ecologist.

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Environmental | 206495 hits | 3:56 PM on Sunday | posted by Goober911

ASTORIA, Ore. — The salmon here in the Columbia River, nearly driven to extinction by hydroelectric dams a quarter century ago, have been increasing in number — a fact not lost on the birds that like to eat them. These now flock by the thousands each spri

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Environmental | 206669 hits | 12:59 PM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

Man-made greenhouse gas emissions have become the dominant cause of melting in glaciers from the Alps to the Andes that is raising world sea levels.

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Environmental | 207605 hits | 12:06 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack

Once extinct along the entire B.C. coastline, a frolicking visitor offered some hope this week that sea otters may return permanently to the Salish Sea.

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Environmental | 206479 hits | 4:26 PM on Thursday | posted by Goober911

SOUTH LUANGWA NATIONAL PARK, ZAMBIA — We saw the impala first, a young buck with a proud set of ridged and twisted horns, like helical rebar, bounding across the open plain at full, desperate gallop. But why? A moment later somebody in our vehicle gasp

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Environmental | 206677 hits | 11:10 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

Parks Canada is studying the use of electrified mats to keep wildlife away from the Canadian Pacific Railway train tracks in Banff National Park.

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Environmental | 206595 hits | 12:36 AM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog

The much-debated Keystone XL pipeline could produce four times more global warming pollution than the State Department calculated earlier this year, a new study concludes. The U.S. estimates didn't take into account that the added oil from the pipeline wo

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Environmental | 206707 hits | 8:51 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack

The first water quality test results since the Mount Polley tailings pond breach have been publicly released, as B.C. Premier Christy Clark meets with concerned residents of the town of Likely.

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Environmental | 206594 hits | 12:06 PM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

Longtime Peace River farmer Carmen Langer has spent years battling oil companies to try to clean up emissions that forced many families to move away. Langer was devastated last weekend when thieves broke into his house and stole his computer and memory st

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Environmental | 206565 hits | 12:05 PM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

While the western U.S. is experiencing a relatively tame wildfire season, the Northern Territories of Canada is in the midst of one of its worst fire seasons on record. In a rare event, a NASA satellite captured the pyrocumulonimbus clouds of an intense f

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Environmental | 206643 hits | 7:11 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

Huge blooms of toxic blue-green algae fouling Lake Erie recently threatened the drinking water of 400,000 people, decades after the problem was thought to be solved. Here's what scientists think is going on this time, and how it can be fixed.

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Environmental | 206410 hits | 7:04 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

Scientists from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), surveyed the part of the Gulf of Mexico from July 27 to Aug. 2 and found low oxygen water in the dead zone, or hypoxia area. In 2013

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Environmental | 206539 hits | 6:42 AM on Thursday | posted by Regina

The long-lasting winter ice in Lake Superior is causing a shortened summer season for communities along the north shore.

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Environmental | 206640 hits | 12:56 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog

With huge budgets to employ lobbyists, lawyers, and public relations professionals, many of America’s leading environmental non-profits are unrecognizable from their modest beginnings. What may seem like an organic, disparate movement is actually a well o

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Environmental | 206616 hits | 12:41 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog

David Smythe has been prominent in highlighting the dangers of fracking and helped to persuade West Sussex County Council to reject an application to drill an exploratory shale well.

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Environmental | 206539 hits | 9:56 AM on Tuesday | posted by Goober911

At least we know it wasn't aliens.

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Environmental | 206575 hits | 7:13 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Smoke from Canada’s wildfires, which have burned vast tracks of forest in B.C. and the Northwest Territories, has been spotted as far away as Portugal. And its travel is fuelled in part by incredible clouds created by the fires that act like chimneys funn

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