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Twitter Bots Are a Major Source of Climate DisinformationEnvironmental | 84 hits | 6:11 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
Bill Gates Wants to 'Cover the Sun' to Help Counter Global WarmingEnvironmental | 132 hits | 11:11 AM on Sunday | posted by Freakinoldguy
Public opposition growing: Petitions against Alberta coal mines top 100K signaturesEnvironmental | 188 hits | 7:46 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
A Consistent Sea-Level Reconstruction and Its Budget on Basin and Global Scales over 1958–2014 in: Journal of Climate Volume 31 Issue 3 (2018)
A new analysis of global sea level rise rates concludes the rising trend was 1.56 mm/yr−¹ from 1900-2018. This is the same rate as for 1958-2014 (1.5 mm/yr−¹), indicating there has not been a long-term distinctive change in sea level rise rates in t
Environmental | 233 hits | 6:17 PM on Tuesday | posted by uwish
A new analysis of global sea level rise rates concludes the rising trend was 1.56 mm/yr−¹ from 1900-2018. This is the same rate as for 1958-2014 (1.5 mm/yr−¹), indicating there has not been a long-term distinctive change in sea level rise rates in tExtreme ocean-effect snow hammers Japan, traps drivers
Environmental | 246 hits | 6:09 PM on Tuesday | posted by uwish
Chinese snap up heating goods as cold spell hits swaths of nation
As a shivering cold spell from Siberia sweeps large swaths of China causing temperatures to fall by up to 10 degrees Celsius, online sales of winter products — including hand warmers, heaters and scarves — have surged, data obtained by the Global Time
Environmental | 193 hits | 7:44 AM on Sunday | posted by uwish
As a shivering cold spell from Siberia sweeps large swaths of China causing temperatures to fall by up to 10 degrees Celsius, online sales of winter products — including hand warmers, heaters and scarves — have surged, data obtained by the Global TimeBlizzard kills 4, brings much of Spain to a standstill | CTV News
A persistent blizzard has blanketed large parts of Spain with 50-year record levels of snow, killing at least four people and leaving thousands trapped in cars or in train stations and airports that had suspended all services as the snow kept falling on S
Environmental | 214 hits | 10:14 AM on Saturday | posted by uwish
A persistent blizzard has blanketed large parts of Spain with 50-year record levels of snow, killing at least four people and leaving thousands trapped in cars or in train stations and airports that had suspended all services as the snow kept falling on S 63 tonnes of ‘ghost gear’ removed from Atlantic Ocean in 2020: Fisheries DepartmentEnvironmental | 187 hits | 9:50 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan said today in a news release that most of the so-called "ghost gear" collected were traps and pots from lobster and crab fishing. 2020 ties with 2016 as world's hottest year on recordEnvironmental | 184 hits | 6:52 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
Last year tied with 2016 as the world's warmest on record, rounding off the hottest decade globally as the impacts of climate change intensified, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Friday. Plastic garbage clogging Serbian dam threatens hydroelectric plant Environmental | 218 hits | 10:23 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Almost as far as the eye can see, trash spreads out over Serbia's Potpecko Lake, lapping against the dam that crosses it, and there's concern that it's threatening a hydroelectric plant. Alaska court to hear challenge to Arctic refuge oil leasesEnvironmental | 153 hits | 7:31 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Conservationists will try to persuade a U.S. judge on Monday to stop the Trump administration from issuing leases to oil and gas companies in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.15 unaccounted for, buildings hang over edge of crater after Norway landslide | CBC News
Ten people were injured, one of them critically, and 15 people remained unaccounted for after a landslide in southern Norway swept away more than a dozen buildings in the early hours of Wednesday, police said.
Environmental | 182 hits | 10:41 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Ten people were injured, one of them critically, and 15 people remained unaccounted for after a landslide in southern Norway swept away more than a dozen buildings in the early hours of Wednesday, police said. Warmer winters causing more ice-free lakes in Northern Hemisphere, study finds | CBC NewsEnvironmental | 237 hits | 12:43 PM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Climate change is having a widespread effect on lakes across the Northern Hemisphere, a new study has found, and it has widespread impacts, including affecting water quality. Wildfires, heat waves and hurricanes broke records in 2020Environmental | 235 hits | 10:24 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
2020 was a year of unremitting extreme climate events, from heat waves to wildfires to hurricanes, many of which scientists have directly linked to human-caused climate change (SN: 8/27/20). Each event has taken a huge toll in lives lost and damages incurUsing Blue Intensity from drought-sensitive Pinus sylvestris in Fennoscandia to improve reconstruction of past hydroclimate variability | SpringerLink
Today’s Swedish climate is well within the range of variability. But she’s young, and hopefully someday she’ll wake up to the hoax and realize she’s bei
Environmental | 237 hits | 8:01 AM on Monday | posted by uwish
Today’s Swedish climate is well within the range of variability. But she’s young, and hopefully someday she’ll wake up to the hoax and realize she’s bei '2 lost decades': How some experts view last 20 years of Canadian climate policy | CBC NewsEnvironmental | 269 hits | 10:46 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look back at 20 years of climate policy in Canada and talk to the country's climate minister, Jonathan Wilkinson. Coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean dynamics in Dansgaard-Oeschger eventsEnvironmental | 241 hits | 9:46 PM on Thursday | posted by uwish
The surface temperatures for the Greenland ice sheet have been known to warm 8 to 16°C “within decades or less” – yes, fewer than 10 years – due to “unforced oscillations.” In other words, no external forcing mechanism is required for these Record-breaking snowfall blankets U.S. Northeast | CTV News
A large swath of the U.S. Northeast was blanketed in snow by the first major storm of the season, which smashed a decades-old snowfall record in Pennsylvania.
Environmental | 262 hits | 5:28 PM on Thursday | posted by uwish
A large swath of the U.S. Northeast was blanketed in snow by the first major storm of the season, which smashed a decades-old snowfall record in Pennsylvania.Holocene history of landscape instability in Iceland: Can we deconvolve the impacts of climate, volcanism and human activity'
A wealth of new research in glacier and sea ice extent show modern Iceland is 2-4°C colder than all of the last 8000 years except for a slightly colder late 19th century. Even the 1700s were warmer with less ice than today in and around Iceland
Environmental | 171 hits | 4:49 AM on Tuesday | posted by uwish
A wealth of new research in glacier and sea ice extent show modern Iceland is 2-4°C colder than all of the last 8000 years except for a slightly colder late 19th century. Even the 1700s were warmer with less ice than today in and around IcelandGlobal Tropical Cyclone Activity | Ryan Maue
If we look further at the statistics for global tropical storm activity from expert Dr. Ryan Maue here, we here as well see no significant trend in major hurricanes since 1992.
Environmental | 243 hits | 11:16 PM on Wednesday | posted by uwish
If we look further at the statistics for global tropical storm activity from expert Dr. Ryan Maue here, we here as well see no significant trend in major hurricanes since 1992.Introduction to Climate Change Over the Indian Region | SpringerLink
Pages 21 to 45 of a new Springer book entitled Assessment of Climate Change over the Indian Region and authored by 12 Indian meteorologists (Sanjay et al., 2020) assesses the temperature changes for India as a whole throughout the last few centuries.
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Environmental | 242 hits | 11:10 PM on Wednesday | posted by uwish
Pages 21 to 45 of a new Springer book entitled Assessment of Climate Change over the Indian Region and authored by 12 Indian meteorologists (Sanjay et al., 2020) assesses the temperature changes for India as a whole throughout the last few centuries.
AThe Reef Could Use a Dose of the Wuhan Flu – Quadrant Online
Willis Island, a tiny mound of coral rubble some 450 Km E. of Cairns in the Coral Sea, is a rare and valuable exception It is about 500 metres long, 150 metres wide, up to 9 metres in height and 8 hectares in area. A meteorological station was establishe
Environmental | 235 hits | 11:08 PM on Wednesday | posted by uwish
Willis Island, a tiny mound of coral rubble some 450 Km E. of Cairns in the Coral Sea, is a rare and valuable exception It is about 500 metres long, 150 metres wide, up to 9 metres in height and 8 hectares in area. A meteorological station was establisheIt’s the science that’s rotten, not the Reef
Environmental | 390 hits | 2:50 PM on Monday | posted by uwish
Protesters in Prince George demand ban on controversial glyphosate herbicideEnvironmental | 397 hits | 7:01 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
Approximately four dozen protesters including local representatives of the B.C. Liberal and Green parties rallied outside the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations office in Prince George, B.C., Thursday, demanding the provincial Federal government invests in small nuclear reactors to help it meet net-zero 2050 targetEnvironmental | 542 hits | 7:56 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
The federal government says it's investing $20 million in the nuclear industry to help Canada meet its target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Water will run through Milk River again after repairs to U.S. canal finish upEnvironmental | 386 hits | 9:16 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
Water in southern Alberta's Milk River could soon be flowing at full capacity again, after it was on the verge of drying up completely. Canada Wildfires At Lowest Level For YearsEnvironmental | 385 hits | 8:05 AM on Friday | posted by uwish
Bountiful harvest of 2020 a 'godsend' for farmers: Kenney says this year could be best everEnvironmental | 495 hits | 7:43 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
Southern Alberta farmers are hauling in one of the best harvests in recent memory this fall, easing the sting of previous years' poor crops and giving theSaudi Arabia Sends Blue Ammonia to Japan in World-First Shipment
The worlds first shipment of blue ammonia is on its way from Saudi Arabia to Japan, where it will be used in power stations to produce electricity without carbon emissions.Saudi Aramco, which made the announcement Sunday, produced the fuel, which it does
Environmental | 220 hits | 9:53 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
The worlds first shipment of blue ammonia is on its way from Saudi Arabia to Japan, where it will be used in power stations to produce electricity without carbon emissions.Saudi Aramco, which made the announcement Sunday, produced the fuel, which it does Hunting restrictions imposed after another Nunavut caribou herd dwindlesEnvironmental | 255 hits | 6:48 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
The Nunavut government has imposed a total allowable harvest on the Dolphin and Union caribou herd after a survey showed the population had plummeted from 18,000 to 4,000.Hundreds of whales are stranded on a sandbank in Australia
Hundreds of pilot whales are stranded on a sandbar in Tasmania, an island off the southern coast of Australia.
Environmental | 210 hits | 6:45 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Hundreds of pilot whales are stranded on a sandbar in Tasmania, an island off the southern coast of Australia. Arctic sea ice shrinks to 2nd lowest level in 4 decadesEnvironmental | 220 hits | 6:44 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Warming in the Arctic shrank the ice covering the polar ocean this year to its second-lowest extent in four decades, scientists announced Monday, yet another sign of how climate change is rapidly transforming the region.Elephant deaths in Botswana caused by toxic blooms in waterholes linked to climate change
Environmental | 250 hits | 6:42 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
World's richest 1% produced 'double the CO2 of the poorest half'Environmental | 262 hits | 9:31 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
Alberta could lead Canada in wind and solar power by 2025, expert saysEnvironmental | 215 hits | 8:26 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
Growth in Alberta's renewable energy sector should continue to trend upwards, experts say, with one forecast expecting that a surge of projects could have the province poised to lead the nation in utility-scale wind and solar capacity as early as 2025.NASA data: global fires down by 25 percent
Environmental | 231 hits | 7:14 AM on Monday | posted by uwish
A huge wetland is burning in Brazil, and the fires are far bigger than California'sEnvironmental | 229 hits | 12:09 PM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
The world's largest tropical wetland is not supposed to burn. And yet, Brazil's Pantanal is on fire. Some 25,000 square kilometres have already been destroyed, and experts say it's going to get worse.Pods of orcas are ramming boats off Spain and Portugal and scientists don't know why
Victoria Morris has had her fair share of orca encounters, but nothing quite like this.
Environmental | 254 hits | 7:32 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Victoria Morris has had her fair share of orca encounters, but nothing quite like this. Jasper National Park says one caribou herd gone, two others on the brink of local extinctionEnvironmental | 240 hits | 7:18 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
The Alberta Wilderness Association says that southern mountain woodland caribou populations in Jasper National Park are dangerously low, and are calling on Parks Canada to intervene. Is Plastic Recycling A Lie' Oil Companies Touted Recycling To Sell More Plastic : NPREnvironmental | 230 hits | 5:59 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
An NPR and PBS Frontline investigation reveals how the oil and gas industry used the promise of recycling to sell more plastic, even when they knew it would never work on a large scale.Climate science denier appointed to top position at NOAA
Environmental | 289 hits | 1:08 PM on Tuesday | posted by Scape
Canadian wildfire attack south of the border has Washington family in tearsEnvironmental | 363 hits | 8:04 AM on Monday | posted by Robair
A big chunk of Greenland's ice cap has broken offEnvironmental | 274 hits | 7:44 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
A big chunk of Greenland's ice cap, estimated to be some 110 square kilometres has broken off in the far north east Arctic which scientists say is evidence of rapid climate change.Half a million flee growing wildfires in Oregon
Deadly wildfires in heavily populated northwest Oregon were growing, with hundreds of thousands of people told to flee encroaching flames while residents to the south tearfully assessed their losses.
Environmental | 349 hits | 11:44 AM on Friday | posted by Strutz
Deadly wildfires in heavily populated northwest Oregon were growing, with hundreds of thousands of people told to flee encroaching flames while residents to the south tearfully assessed their losses. Wildfire smoke: Haze over parts of B.C. prompts air quality advisoryEnvironmental | 368 hits | 6:16 PM on Tuesday | posted by Strutz
Air quality advisories are in effect for much of British Columbia due to drifting wildfire smoke, and many in Metro Vancouver are noticing it in the area. Giant artichoke beats the odds, thrives in Yellowknife gardenEnvironmental | 273 hits | 9:24 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Leslie Creed grew a massive artichoke in Yellowknife this summer. The plant generally thrives in southern Mediterranean climates. Orca that carried dead calf for 17 days gives birth to healthy new babyEnvironmental | 214 hits | 6:18 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
A southern resident killer whale who carried her dead calf for two weeks in 2018 in a heart-wrenching display of mourning has once again given birth. Ew, what is that' Photographer captures gross, beautiful slime moulds around YellowknifeEnvironmental | 302 hits | 10:40 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
Slime moulds aren't well known, but they can be found everywhere, even in Antarctica. Here's a close-up look at these magical, colourful and tiny little creatures. Environmental watchdog report says Alberta oilsands tailings ponds are tainting groundwaterEnvironmental | 231 hits | 10:37 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
A North American environmental watchdog found there is scientifically valid evidence that oilsands tailings ponds are contaminating groundwater sources. Your denim could be destroying some of the world's most precious water bodies, new study findsEnvironmental | 201 hits | 6:04 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Researchers at the University of Toronto say they detected microfibres linked to blue jeans in aquatic environments ranging from the shallow suburban lakes of southern Ontario, to the Great Lakes and all the way up to the Arctic Archipelago.Back to Canada News
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