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Environmental | 99 hits | 10:57 AM on Tuesday | posted by Regina

The 160-metre Halit Bey was en route to Trois-Rivières, Que., from Germany when it ran aground just outside of Quebec City.

Environmental | 85 hits | 9:38 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

The Canadian government is downgrading the protection of humpback whales off the coast of B.C. under the Species at Risk Act amid fears that the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline will turn the whales' habitat into a major oil shipping corridor.

Environmental | 85 hits | 11:11 AM on Monday | posted by Regina

Two ships are due to arrive in the port of Thunder Bay on Monday, marking the latest start to a shipping season there.

Environmental | 107 hits | 7:58 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

Can we stop pretending biofuel from corn is helping the planet and the environment? The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a new report reversing its previous support of biofuels, stating, “Increasing bioenergy crop cultivat

Environmental | 79 hits | 7:51 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

SYDNEY, April 15 (RTRS) - Fish on a remote coral reef in the South Pacific have altered their behaviour, as acidification of the ocean changes their natural habits, making them attracted to the smell of their predators and unafraid of approaching them.

Environmental | 133 hits | 12:20 PM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Pollution from China's coal-burning power plants is pumping up winter storms over the northwest Pacific Ocean and changing North America's weather, a new study finds. Northwest Pacific winter storms are now 10 percent stronger than they were 30 years ago,

Environmental | 86 hits | 11:54 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

Ice cores retrieved from Greenland ice cap confirm four decades of cleaner air thanks to 1970's U.S. Clean Air Act

Environmental | 146 hits | 7:28 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

Navy researchers demonstrate proof-of-concept in first flight of an internal combustion powered model aircraft fueled by a novel gas-to-liquid process that uses seawater as carbon feedstock.

Environmental | 145 hits | 10:39 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Scientists have discovered a hole in the atmosphere that allows ozone-depleting compounds and other chemicals to bypass the atmosphere’s natural “washing machine” layer. The lowest layer of Earth’s atmosphere, known as the troposphere, is full of hydroxyl

Environmental | 114 hits | 10:11 AM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Greenpeace Canada is asking Elections Canada to investigate whether the Ethical Oil Institute is colluding with the Conservative Party in order to get around rules that limit donations to political parties.

Environmental | 136 hits | 7:20 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

Search teams scouring the Indian Ocean for evidence of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane have thus far only come up with unrelated debris. It's an indication of the vast amount of junk floating in the open seas.

Environmental | 100 hits | 12:08 PM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

For the first time since Japan's nuclear disaster three years ago, authorities are allowing residents to return to live in their homes within a tiny part of a 20-kilometre evacuation zone around the Fukushima plant.

Environmental | 123 hits | 11:16 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Miniï¿½s scientists, engineers and product designers have stared long and hard at the bottom of their favourite hot beverages and seen the future ï¿½ a tea-leaf biofuel composite which they have harnessed to power the new MINI Cooper T. Available as ï¿½Ch

Environmental | 120 hits | 7:28 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Following complaints that industrial emissions were causing health problems in Peace Country, Baytex Energy and other companies involved in heavy oil operations are being told to make changes to the way their plants operate.

Environmental | 152 hits | 6:44 AM on Monday | posted by stemmer

One of the authors of a U.N. draft report on climate change pulled out of the writing team, saying his colleagues were pulling too far to the left and issuing unfounded "alarmist" claims at the expense of real solutions.

Environmental | 243 hits | 4:12 AM on Monday | posted by saturn_656

The International Court of Justice on Monday ordered a temporary halt to Japan's Antarctic whaling program, ruling that it is not for scientific purposes as the Japanese had claimed.

Environmental | 132 hits | 11:15 PM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog

In The Wall Street Journal, Matt Ridley writes that even while it exaggerates the amount of warming, the IPCC is becoming more cautious about its effects.

Environmental | 110 hits | 4:49 PM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog

In 2007, the IPCC predicted that rising global temperatures would kill off many species. But in its new report, part of which will be presented next Monday, the UN climate change body backtracks. There is a shortage of evidence, a draft version claims.

Environmental | 140 hits | 4:43 PM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog

The monthly electric bill for Joe Hebert's tiny Little River Acres home was an "over the moon" $1,076 in February, almost double the $570 he pays for his mortgage and property taxes.

Environmental | 102 hits | 11:31 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

The greatest threat to Japan's whaling industry may not be the environmentalists harassing its ships or the countries demanding its abolishment, but Japanese consumers. They've lost their appetite.

Environmental | 155 hits | 6:29 AM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Growing crops to make biofuel harms the environment and drives up food prices, admits the United Nations

Environmental | 77 hits | 6:14 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

In new estimates released today, WHO reports that in 2012 around 7 million people died - one in eight of total global deaths – as a result of air pollution exposure. This finding more than doubles previous estimates and confirms that air pollution is now

Environmental | 126 hits | 8:50 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

Frozen lakes have killed hundreds of ducks in southern Ontario and upstate New York, wildlife conservationists say, as ice has made it impossible for many waterfowl to dive for food.

Environmental | 156 hits | 11:22 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

Ancient clam farms created by Aboriginal people shelled out a superior amount of clams and the method could be used to nurture today’s food security, says a new study. The three-year study by SFU researchers revealed Thursday ancient rock-walled terraces

Environmental | 196 hits | 11:48 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

It is now legal for licensed hunters to harvest feral pigs anywhere in B.C. In a news release issued this morning, the B.C. ministry of forests and lands says feral pigs are invasive animals that have escaped farms and established themselves in the wild.

Environmental | 188 hits | 12:54 PM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

America’s largest industrial accident tore apart the town of Kingston, Tennessee. Five years later, has the industry learned anything?

Environmental | 153 hits | 4:46 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog

As more environmentally conscious Americans do their bit to help clear the air by paying up for an eco-friendly Prius or a sporty Tesla, a damaging form of polluted rain is falling in China

Environmental | 118 hits | 12:24 PM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog

The Davis Strait polar bear subpopulation is said to be 'vulnerable' to the supposed effects of global warming because, like Hudson Bay, Davis Strait sea ice retreats every summer, leaving polar bears on land for several months. However, Davis Strait bear

Environmental | 135 hits | 11:56 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Most Americans, 65%, believe global warming is currently happening or will happen in their lifetimes, but far fewer, 36%, predict it will be a serious threat to their way of life.

Environmental | 132 hits | 8:29 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

Canada’s efforts to combat climate change could be scaled down as Environment Canada braces for more budgetary belt-tightening over the next three years.

Environmental | 120 hits | 10:41 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack

A Vancouver Aquarium marine mammal rescue team, in partnership with Fisheries and Oceans, has successfully disentangled several California and Stellar sea lions spotted on log booms in the Fanny Bay area of Vancouver Island.

Environmental | 161 hits | 4:53 PM on Monday | posted by BeaverFever

Investigation unveils 35 spills along Enbridge’s suddenly controversial 830-km pipeline, many not revealed to communities until now.

Environmental | 137 hits | 3:33 PM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Hoegh-Guldberg is now arguably the world’s most influential reef scientist in global-warming circles, having got big government grants, chaired a $20 million World Bank study of warming, and worked as an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead auth

Environmental | 113 hits | 1:12 PM on Monday | posted by Regina

Outfitter Pat Garrett filmed as one very determined black bear went to great lengths to reach a dangling snack in Breton, Alta.

Environmental | 93 hits | 7:13 AM on Monday | posted by Regina

A powerful magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck Sunday night off the coast of Northern California, but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage and no danger of a tsunami, officials said.

Environmental | 138 hits | 11:36 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack

The DEW Line remediation project cost the government $575 million and saw the removal of toxic waste from 21 former radar stations across the Arctic.

Environmental | 142 hits | 12:24 PM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

All mountaineers and their support teams going to Mount Everest must bring back at least 8kg (17lb) of rubbish on their descent, Nepal's government says.

Environmental | 173 hits | 10:19 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

A previously unknown giant virus has been revived from 30,000-year-old permafrost, suggesting another possible threat from climate change.

Environmental | 225 hits | 11:48 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

New research reveals the disgusting algae bloom didymo — also known as "rock snot" — may not be an invasive species in Eastern Canada after all, but is proliferating now because of global warming.

Environmental | 218 hits | 10:28 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

The quality of water in Lake Erie has been falling for a decade and decisive government action is needed, a new report says.

Environmental | 129 hits | 11:52 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

The uranium miner-focused exchange traded fund is heating up as the Japanese government reversed plans to shift away from atomic energy for good, revealing a new nuclear energy plan Tuesday.

Environmental | 131 hits | 7:02 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

The smog is so bad even the statues wear masks. Or at least they do in pictures of a campus stunt that circulated online Tuesday as parts of northern China suffered a sixth straight day of severe pollution.

Environmental | 142 hits | 6:57 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

The number of extremely hot days has been increasing steadily globally despite a "pause" in the rise of average surface temperatures over the past 15 years, a new study has found.

Environmental | 104 hits | 11:03 AM on Tuesday | posted by stemmer

The Associated Press, Washington Post, National Public Radio, and Reuters are part of a group of 18 media groups that filed a friend of the court brief urging the Virginia Supreme Court to put a stop to Mann hiding his taxpayer funded activities from publ

Environmental | 117 hits | 9:55 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

Russia and Norway will be urged at Greenland meeting to join other three Arctic states in support of agreement

Environmental | 139 hits | 7:32 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

University of Hawaii scientists have been tracking the spread of debris from the tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011.

Environmental | 551 hits | 7:35 PM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Massive counterclaims, in excess of $10 million, have just been filed against climate scientist Michael Mann after lawyers affirmed that the former golden boy of global warming alarmism had sensationally failed in his exasperating three-year bid to sue sk

Environmental | 122 hits | 7:19 PM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog

It’s a fascinating paradox: global warming as the culprit for bone-chilling cold. But more and more scientists are expressing reservations about this hypothesis, first proposed by Rutgers climate scientist Jennifer Francis and collaborators.

Environmental | 189 hits | 11:44 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog

In the worst weather prediction since Michael Fish reassured the nation in October 1987 that there was no hurricane on the way, forecasters said the Somerset Levels and the rest of the West Country would be especially dry.

Environmental | 159 hits | 7:07 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

When severe storms hit one question that is often asked is if the storm is somehow connected to climate change. Scientists are often quick to point out that storms and weather are caused by the jet stream.

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