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Environmental | 50 hits | 6:10 PM on Monday | posted by andyt

U.S. President Barack Obama announces even steeper greenhouse gas cuts from U.S. power plants than previously expected.

Environmental | 108 hits | 10:35 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

Sightings of Asian grass carp in two Toronto ponds have prompted the "biggest response in Canada to date" from Fisheries and Oceans Canada against the invasive species.

Environmental | 87 hits | 6:36 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

Researchers may never learn why the carcasses of 18 endangered whales were found floating near Alaska's Kodiak Island, a scientist working on the case said Monday.

Environmental | 177 hits | 6:27 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

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Cecil the lion – the most famous creature in one of Zimbabwe's national parks – was killed by an American hunter who has boasted about shooting a menagerie of animals with his bow and arrow, The Telegraph can reveal.

Environmental | 186 hits | 12:10 AM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Cambridge Professor Peter Wadhams suspects the deaths of the three scientists were more than just an extraordinary coincidence

Environmental | 117 hits | 1:01 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Ontario has granted more water-related industry patents than any other similarly-sized jurisdiction in the last three decades.

Environmental | 97 hits | 2:25 PM on Saturday | posted by andyt

LONDON, Ohio — Everybody in Madison County knows you don’t swim in Madison Lake. “We haven’t swum in it for years,” said London resident Carissa Jenkins, who was enjoying a sunny day with her family this week at the state park. Not far from where Jenkins

Environmental | 128 hits | 11:54 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Environmentalists shed their clothing Saturday morning on campus to rally against what they see as plans to cut down an estimated 450,000 trees in the East Bay hills.

Environmental | 152 hits | 12:45 PM on Thursday | posted by BeaverFever

Don't feed the wildlife — that's the message Parks Canada is sending out to the public. A video from last year that led to charges was released today to help raise awareness on the issue.

Environmental | 152 hits | 12:44 PM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

Changes in Arctic sea ice volume affect regional heat and freshwater budgets and patterns of atmospheric circulation at lower latitudes. Despite a well-documented decline in summer Arctic sea ice extent by about 40% since the late 1970s, it has been diffi

Environmental | 142 hits | 12:08 PM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

Melting permafrost caused by climate change is causing changes in the northern landscape on a scale not seen since the end of the last ice age, experts say.

Environmental | 87 hits | 6:59 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Stage 3 water restrictions mean lawn sprinklers and outdoor car washing are banned.

Environmental | 111 hits | 1:02 PM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

Earth dialled the heat up last month, smashing warm temperature records for both the month and the first half of the year.

Environmental | 131 hits | 7:04 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

In the wake of a massive spill from a one-year-old pipeline in Alberta, one veteran investigator says that newer technology doesn't always prevent spills. And that public confidence takes a big hit when it fails.

Environmental | 141 hits | 1:13 PM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

In 2014, the most essential indicators of Earth’s changing climate continued to reflect trends of a warming planet, with several markers such as rising land and ocean temperature, sea levels and greenhouse gases ─ setting new records. These key fi

Environmental | 140 hits | 9:36 PM on Thursday | posted by Strutz

One of the largest leaks in Alberta history has spilled about five million litres of emulsion from a Nexen Energy pipeline at the company’s Long Lake oilsands facility south of Fort McMurray.

Environmental | 145 hits | 12:57 PM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

Polar bears are unable to adapt their behaviour to cope with the food losses associated with warmer summers in the Arctic.

Environmental | 136 hits | 7:26 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

And automakers are using those economies of scale to jump into stationary storage.

Environmental | 89 hits | 8:14 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack

A record-low snow pack, paltry rainfall, and soaring temperatures have pushed British Columbia's most heavily populated region to the highest alert level on the province's drought scale.

Environmental | 98 hits | 11:10 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Officials in a county west of Edmonton have declared an agricultural disaster, due to drought in the municipality.

Environmental | 149 hits | 1:35 AM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog

A dozen members of direct action group Plane Stupid got on to the northern runway of Britain's busiest airport at 3.30am after cutting a hole in a fence.

Environmental | 111 hits | 1:32 AM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Rattlesnake country can be a treacherous place, even if you’re a rattlesnake.

Environmental | 128 hits | 2:21 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

A massive cleanup effort is getting underway in Alaska, with tons of marine debris — some likely sent to sea by the 2011 tsunami in Japan — set to be airlifted from rocky beaches and taken by barge for recycling and disposal in the Pacific Northwest.

Environmental | 187 hits | 1:32 AM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog

SEATTLE  Mount St. Helens’ Crater Glacier continues to grow while most others around the world are shrinking.

Environmental | 205 hits | 1:43 PM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog

The rare phenomenon will lead to a phenomenon known as the 'Maunder minimum' - which has previously been known as a mini ice age when it hit between 1646 and 1715.

Environmental | 120 hits | 8:11 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

When Grant Gaschnitz walks through his fields at his farm near High Prairie, swarms of grasshoppers jump out from under his feet.

Environmental | 136 hits | 7:01 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

UBC research shows world’s monitored seabird populations have dropped 70 per cent since the 1950s, a stark indication that marine ecosystems are not doing well. Michelle Paleczny, a UBC master’s student and researcher with the Sea Around Us project, an

Environmental | 126 hits | 12:24 PM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

Bumblebees can't move north to cope with warmer temperatures, and climate change is wiping them out in many areas where they lived several decades ago, a Canadian-led study suggests. The study looked at where 67 bumblebee species were found in North Am

Environmental | 278 hits | 11:29 AM on Thursday | posted by Zipperfish

An American-owned water export company has launched a massive lawsuit against Canada for preventing it from exporting fresh water from British Columbia.

Environmental | 162 hits | 11:14 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

What atmospheric scientist Jiwen Fan saw on her television in July 2013 appalled her. The worst flooding to hit China in 50 years was happening in Sichuan province, in the same place that had been devastated by a massive earthquake just 5 years earlier. O

Environmental | 112 hits | 10:41 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Biologists are trying to find the reason thousands of nesting birds have abandoned Seahorse Key off Florida's Gulf Coast. The little blue herons, roseate spoonbills, snowy egrets, pelicans and other birds left the island all at once in May.

Environmental | 163 hits | 10:30 AM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Residents across Metro Vancouver and other parts of B.C. woke to the sight of a strange haze in the sky Sunday morning.

Environmental | 128 hits | 10:54 PM on Saturday | posted by Regina

A five-year-old Florida girl died after a sturgeon leaped into her boat along the Suwannee River in Florida and struck her.

Environmental | 129 hits | 7:12 AM on Friday | posted by Regina

This year, bears have forced trail closures in Alberta, ripped through screen doors to steal food inside Ontario cabins, settled for eating cake out of the garbage near Ottawa, and one cub broke into a parked car in Manitoba.

Environmental | 104 hits | 7:37 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

Alaska and its neighbor to the east, Canada, have kicked off wildfire season in a major way. Blazes have raged across the northern stretches of North America, sending smoke streaming down into the Lower 48 and leaving the landscape charred.

Environmental | 103 hits | 7:25 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

A team freed the latest whale, believed to be a Mexican humpback, from Barkley Sound on Sunday.

Environmental | 77 hits | 4:27 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack

Glass sponge reefs in British Columbia's Hecate Strait that were once considered extinct are now the focus of a federal protection effort that a conservation group calls too weak to save the fragile undersea treasures.

Environmental | 111 hits | 7:55 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack

DNA testing on Atlantic salmon in two P.E.I. rivers has revealed these fish could be from an ancient strain that isn't found anywhere else.

Environmental | 163 hits | 9:48 AM on Thursday | posted by andyt

Alberta’s environment minister says the province is “getting serious” about climate change.

Environmental | 122 hits | 11:18 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

The province is launching a campaign this summer to stop people from flushing their aquariums down their toilets.

Environmental | 112 hits | 10:18 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

A dramatic humpback whale rescue, captured on camera, is just the latest in a rising number of whale entanglements off the British Columbia coast, experts say.

Environmental | 273 hits | 7:01 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

An intense heatwave sweeping across Pakistan's southern Sindh province has killed around 400 people, including women and children, in the capital Karachi, prompting the army to step in to help victims of the worst heatstroke that has hit the country in mo

Environmental | 125 hits | 7:00 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Jason Hamilton, of Bainbridge Island, will lead a crew of 150 on an unprecedented expedition to study the Arctic Ocean, the Associated Press writes.

Environmental | 97 hits | 7:51 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

A new report from the Canadian Environmental Law Association says a subcommittee tasks with tackling chemical pollution has made little progress

Environmental | 120 hits | 10:41 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog

In anonymous email, activists with a group known as Animal Liberation Front say they planted two incendiary devices under the vehicles

Environmental | 126 hits | 10:17 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Environmental group says an internal review found lapses in how it dealt with crimes against women and gender sensitivity in the workplace

Environmental | 134 hits | 5:33 PM on Wednesday | posted by andyt

Human water use is sucking dry around a third of the world's largest underground water basins at an alarming rate, with potentially risky consequences for farmers and other consumers, researchers say.

Environmental | 223 hits | 9:20 AM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack

A toxic algae bloom in the Pacific Ocean stretching from California north to B.C. might be the largest ever detected off the West Coast, according to scientists in California.

Environmental | 78 hits | 8:52 AM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog

France's ecology minister wants her people to end their addiction to Nutella, saying the popular cocoa and hazelnut spread is destroying the planet.

Environmental | 104 hits | 7:53 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposes removing the eastern cougar from the endangered species list.

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