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Greenland Glacier Breaks Speed RecordEnvironmental | 206717 hits | 5:53 PM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
During the summer of 2012 the Greenland glacier Jakobshavn Isbræ flowed into the ocean at the fastest speed ever observed for a glacier in Greenland or Antarctica, according to a paper published February 3 in The Cryosphere. At its speediest, satellite daBloomberg takes on new role at UN
Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has been appointed to be the U.N. special envoy for cities and climate change.
Environmental | 206744 hits | 1:01 PM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has been appointed to be the U.N. special envoy for cities and climate change. Teck smelter spills chemical solution into Columbia RiverEnvironmental | 206817 hits | 8:35 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack
A mining and smelting company spilled a large volume of chemical solution into a domestic sewer line near Trail, B.C., on Tuesday. Eastern Ontario homeowners hit with skyrocketing propane bills | CTV Ottawa NewsEnvironmental | 208015 hits | 11:04 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
First there a propane shortage. Now, residents in Eastern Ontario are seeing their utility bills double. First cold-water coral reef discovered off GreenlandEnvironmental | 207889 hits | 6:00 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
A reef of living cold-water corals has been discovered for the first time in Greenland waters - at a depth of almost 3,000 feet below sea-level. There are several species of coral in Greenland, but this is the first time that an actual reef hasChina's Guangdong to cut oil, coal use, slow carbon emissions growth
BEIJING, Jan 27 (Reuters) - China's southern Guangdong province plans large investments in natural gas and clean energy to cut coal and oil use in a bid to slow rampant growth in greenhouse gas emissions,
Environmental | 207766 hits | 11:17 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
BEIJING, Jan 27 (Reuters) - China's southern Guangdong province plans large investments in natural gas and clean energy to cut coal and oil use in a bid to slow rampant growth in greenhouse gas emissions,No end in sight: U.S. continues to endure coldest month in a century as freezing temperatures expected to last through next week | Mail Online
The Midwest and Eastern seaboard will be hit with yet another arctic blast early this week as temperatures refuse to go above freezing.
Environmental | 207806 hits | 10:25 AM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The Midwest and Eastern seaboard will be hit with yet another arctic blast early this week as temperatures refuse to go above freezing. Natural gas pipeline explodes in southern ManitobaEnvironmental | 207882 hits | 7:50 AM on Saturday | posted by Curtman
A natural gas pipeline exploded in southern Manitoba early Saturday morning, sending massive flames into the air. Bees Are Building Nests with Our Waste Plastic | MotherboardEnvironmental | 206594 hits | 6:10 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
Environmental | 207442 hits | 8:16 PM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Three months after making the wild, near-apocalyptic claim, the environmentalist did not seem to go so far as to renege the claim, which has baffled nuclear scientists Climate change: 2013 ranked 4th warmest yearEnvironmental | 207538 hits | 11:23 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Last year was one of the warmest ever recorded on Earth since scientists began keeping global average temperature stats 134 years ago, climate experts from two U.S. agencies revealed today. Ice in Great Lakes a danger to ships, coast guard saysEnvironmental | 207810 hits | 5:58 AM on Thursday | posted by ShepherdsDog
All the ice and the winds from the north are bad news for ships in the Great Lakes, according to Andre Maillet, a supervisor of operations for the Canadian Coast Guard.Made in China: Up to a quarter of California smog
What goes around comes around – quite literally in the case of smog. The US has outsourced many of its production lines to China and, in return, global winds are exporting the Chinese factories' pollution right back to the US.
Environmental | 207443 hits | 1:36 PM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
What goes around comes around – quite literally in the case of smog. The US has outsourced many of its production lines to China and, in return, global winds are exporting the Chinese factories' pollution right back to the US.When It Comes To Getting Coal-Burning Utilities to Clean Up, Investors May Have More Power Than Regulators
Should asset managers ply the companies in which they invest to be more environmentally assertive? That discussion is moving forward now that some institutional investors are pushing major coal-burning utilities to clean up their act. By getting coal-depe
Environmental | 207473 hits | 7:30 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Should asset managers ply the companies in which they invest to be more environmentally assertive? That discussion is moving forward now that some institutional investors are pushing major coal-burning utilities to clean up their act. By getting coal-depeSecret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks | Environment | The Guardian
There was a strange reaction when David Cameron said during prime minister's question time that he "suspected" the recent UK floods were connected to climate change. Many of his own MPs murmured dissent and rightwing columnists attacked him. Some simply r
Environmental | 207775 hits | 7:53 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
There was a strange reaction when David Cameron said during prime minister's question time that he "suspected" the recent UK floods were connected to climate change. Many of his own MPs murmured dissent and rightwing columnists attacked him. Some simply r Alison Redford to debate Al Gore over oilsandsEnvironmental | 207566 hits | 6:37 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Alberta Premier Alison Redford will spar with former U.S. vice-president Al Gore over his oilsands "myths" during this week's World Economic Forum in Switzerland. Both Redford and Gore are scheduled to take part in a private session discussion on "the fut Fort McMurray takes exception to Neil Young's Hiroshima comment on TwitterEnvironmental | 207761 hits | 4:56 PM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
It’s perhaps not the disgusting and twisted visual of atomic devastation Neil Young described... Extreme weather cost Canada record $3.2B, insurers sayEnvironmental | 207712 hits | 1:41 PM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
The spate of severe weather disruptions across Canada in the past year caused insurers to pay out a record $3.2 billion in claims, the industry says.Group: Stressed, bloody dolphins await slaughter in Japan's Taiji Cove
More than 200 dolphins spent a second day penned in a cove by Japanese fishermen, U.S. conservationists said Sunday, many of them stressed and bloodied.
Environmental | 207469 hits | 11:26 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
More than 200 dolphins spent a second day penned in a cove by Japanese fishermen, U.S. conservationists said Sunday, many of them stressed and bloodied.Australian heatwaves getting hotter and longer, says Climate Council | World news | theguardian.com
The report, which will be released in full in February, finds that climate change is having a key influence on a trend that has seen the number of hot days in Australia double and the duration and frequency of heatwaves increase in the period between 1971
Environmental | 207701 hits | 11:51 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
The report, which will be released in full in February, finds that climate change is having a key influence on a trend that has seen the number of hot days in Australia double and the duration and frequency of heatwaves increase in the period between 1971 Environment Canada opinion survey reveals skepticism of government action on climate changeEnvironmental | 206614 hits | 7:01 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
Climate change: The case of the missing heat
Sixteen years into the mysterious ‘global-warming hiatus’, scientists are piecing together an explanation.
Environmental | 208116 hits | 1:30 PM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Sixteen years into the mysterious ‘global-warming hiatus’, scientists are piecing together an explanation.BBC's six-year cover-up of secret 'green propaganda' training for top executives
A climate blogger has forced the BBC to reveal details of a 2006 eco-seminar which then-head of news Helen Boaden (pictured) said impacted a 'broad range of output' - but which the Corporation spent more than £20,000 in legal fees trying to keep secret.
Environmental | 208053 hits | 1:24 PM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
A climate blogger has forced the BBC to reveal details of a 2006 eco-seminar which then-head of news Helen Boaden (pictured) said impacted a 'broad range of output' - but which the Corporation spent more than £20,000 in legal fees trying to keep secret. Cracks in Arctic ice churn up mercury concernEnvironmental | 206692 hits | 8:14 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Atmospheric scientists have discovered a “pumping” process that is drawing mercury, a neurotoxin, into remote Arctic ecosystems. They also warn that “profound changes” underway in the North have the potential to increase levels of the potent contaminant c Land along the East Coast is sinking. Just ask Norfolk, Va. | The Chronicle HeraldEnvironmental | 206684 hits | 11:11 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
The little white shack at the water’s edge in Lower Manhattan is unobtrusive — so much so that the tourists strolling the promenade at Battery Park the other day did not give it a second glance. Up close, though, the roof of the shed behind a Coast Guard Snowy owls invade Ottawa area | CTV NewsEnvironmental | 206736 hits | 11:04 AM on Wednesday | posted by wildrosegirl
Ottawa residents are spotting more snowy owls in the capital region this winter, thanks to an 'irruption' that's seeing more birds fly farther south of their usual range in the boreal forest. First documented evidence found of wolverines in Great Bear Rainforest |Environmental | 206783 hits | 11:29 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
Evidence shows the often-reclusive wolverine has taken up residence for the first time on an island off British Columbia's Central Coast and the animal's eating habits have changed along with its relocation.West Virginia chemical leak: 4 hospitalized
A handful of people have been hospitalized and several hundred thousand remain without water after a chemical leaked from a storage tank in Charleston into the public water treatment system, state authorities said Saturday.
Environmental | 206792 hits | 5:09 PM on Saturday | posted by wildrosegirl
A handful of people have been hospitalized and several hundred thousand remain without water after a chemical leaked from a storage tank in Charleston into the public water treatment system, state authorities said Saturday. Coal spills after CP train operated by CN Rail derails in BurnabyEnvironmental | 206832 hits | 4:23 PM on Saturday | posted by wildrosegirl
A Canadian Pacific Railway train operated by a CN Rail crew derailed in Burnaby, B.C., sending seven cars off the tracks and spilling coal into a creek that feeds into a lake.Bats dropping from trees as record heat wave grips Australia
Bats are dropping from trees, kangaroos are collapsing in the Outback and gardens are turning brown. While North America freezes under record polar temperatures, the southern hemisphere is experiencing the opposite extreme as heat records are being set in
Environmental | 206790 hits | 7:26 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Bats are dropping from trees, kangaroos are collapsing in the Outback and gardens are turning brown. While North America freezes under record polar temperatures, the southern hemisphere is experiencing the opposite extreme as heat records are being set in Higher insurance premiums in the forecast after months of wild weatherEnvironmental | 206675 hits | 12:30 PM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
After costly storms and flooding, property and casualty insurers are looking to hike rates. Some property and casualty (P&C) insurers are already charging more for home insurance following a particularly expensive year for claims from flooding, ice storms Air pollution killing up to 500,000 Chinese a year, admits former health ministerEnvironmental | 206655 hits | 10:14 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Half a million people die each year in China because of air pollution, according to the country's former health minister. Chen Zhu, who is also a professor of medicine and a leading molecular biologist, is the most senior government official to put a humaChinese icebreaker Snow Dragon breaks free from sea ice
Chinese state media say the country's icebreaker has broken free from heavy sea ice in Antarctica after becoming trapped last week.
Environmental | 206827 hits | 10:48 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Chinese state media say the country's icebreaker has broken free from heavy sea ice in Antarctica after becoming trapped last week. Forest needed to cover carbon footprint of icy rescueEnvironmental | 206682 hits | 11:11 AM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The hapless Australasian Antarctic Expedition is finally homeward bound - and thousands of trees will have to be planted to offset the carbon footprint from the prolonged rescue effort. Two studies back family's concerns with energy companyEnvironmental | 206708 hits | 3:12 PM on Friday | posted by wildrosegirl
After a two-year struggle, Brian Labrecque is starting the new year a little more confident about resolving the air pollution problems that left his parents ill and forced seven family members from their homes. Orphaned bear cub found living with chickensEnvironmental | 206923 hits | 1:06 AM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
A severely malnourished and orphaned bear cub has been rescued in B.C.'s West Kootenay region, after it was found co-existing with hens inside a chicken coop.Millions of acres of China farmland too polluted to grow food
More than eight million acres of China's farmland is too polluted with heavy metals and other chemicals to use for growing food, a Cabinet official said Monday, highlighting a problem that is causing growing public concern.
Environmental | 207780 hits | 12:15 PM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
More than eight million acres of China's farmland is too polluted with heavy metals and other chemicals to use for growing food, a Cabinet official said Monday, highlighting a problem that is causing growing public concern. Environment Canada plans changes to wind chill warnings | Toronto StarEnvironmental | 207734 hits | 11:53 AM on Sunday | posted by kitty
The federal government is working on a new way to warn Canadians about the need to protect themselves from the dangers of frigid weather. Ice storm: All power might be back by Sunday, says Toronto Hydro bossEnvironmental | 207803 hits | 2:30 PM on Saturday | posted by kitty
Mayor Rob Ford says end of crisis is near, but power and TCHC leaders see problems grow Saturday. Alberta environment regulators now paid by oil industryEnvironmental | 208006 hits | 11:58 AM on Tuesday | posted by BeaverFever
Enforcement officers “will be in the position” of handing out penalties for poor practices on land-clearing to the companies paying their salaries, said Dempsey, adding that the department urged staff to apply for the new jobs. Toronto ice storm: 230,000 still without powerEnvironmental | 206905 hits | 7:00 AM on Monday | posted by Regina
Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline approved by energy board, with 209 conditionsEnvironmental | 207287 hits | 2:45 PM on Thursday | posted by Zipperfish
Artificial Sweeteners In Ontario's Grand River 'Highest' In The World, Study SaysEnvironmental | 208572 hits | 7:49 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
A major southern Ontario river has been artificially sweetened, according to a new study. Researchers with Environment Canada and the University of Waterloo found record levels of acesulfame, sucralose, saccharin, and cyclamate – artificial sweeteners comClimate change expert's fraud was 'crime of massive proportion,' say feds
The EPA’s highest-paid employee and a leading expert on climate change deserves to go to prison for at least 30 months for lying to his bosses and saying he was a CIA spy working in Pakistan so he could avoid doing his real job, say federal prosecutors.
Environmental | 207502 hits | 11:03 PM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The EPA’s highest-paid employee and a leading expert on climate change deserves to go to prison for at least 30 months for lying to his bosses and saying he was a CIA spy working in Pakistan so he could avoid doing his real job, say federal prosecutors. 1959 message in a bottle a clue to glacier meltEnvironmental | 207987 hits | 10:08 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
An American geologist in the High Arctic in the 1950s showed unusual foresight by leaving a message in a bottle designed to document the retreat of a glacier.Energy Department to Give $226 Million to Support Nuclear Reactor Design
The award is the second of two under a $452 million, multiyear program to assist in the development of "small modular reactors," which would be built in American factories, potentially improving quality and cutting costs.
Environmental | 207649 hits | 12:10 PM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
The award is the second of two under a $452 million, multiyear program to assist in the development of "small modular reactors," which would be built in American factories, potentially improving quality and cutting costs. Newly discovered greenhouse gas '7,000 times more powerful than CO2'Environmental | 208928 hits | 12:18 PM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
A new greenhouse gas that is 7,000 times more powerful than carbon dioxide at warming the Earth has been discovered by researchers in Toronto. The newly discovered gas, perfluorotributylamine (PFTBA), has been in use by the electrical industry since the Megatons to Megawatts program concludes
The arrival of the final shipment of low-enriched uranium (LEU) from Russia to the USA marks the successful completion of the Megatons to Megawatts program to downblend weapons-grade uranium. In 1993, the US and Russian governments signed an agreement for
Environmental | 208043 hits | 10:32 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
The arrival of the final shipment of low-enriched uranium (LEU) from Russia to the USA marks the successful completion of the Megatons to Megawatts program to downblend weapons-grade uranium. In 1993, the US and Russian governments signed an agreement for TSB says CN Rail failed to report hundreds of derailments, collisionsEnvironmental | 206842 hits | 7:23 AM on Monday | posted by Regina
A continuing CBC News investigation into rail safety has found that Canada’s largest freight carrier CN Rail did not report to authorities more than 1,800 accidents, including dozens of derailments on key rail arteries.Back to Canada News
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