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Environmental | 29 hits | 10:12 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

A record-breaking heatwave has arrived in the Arctic this month, appearing unusually early and with shocking intensity. Forecasts show that temperatures will remain higher than average next week, and possibly for the rest of the year.

Environmental | 39 hits | 9:17 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

"If they're feeding, they are feeding and they can be oblivious of boats," warned one researcher. Federal officials consider ship strike to be the species' biggest threat.

Environmental | 133 hits | 6:50 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

In two new sweeping decisions published on May 20, the provincial regulator said that it was no longer safe for the companies to continue monitoring environmental impacts due to the threat of COVID-19.

Environmental | 132 hits | 6:13 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

Alberta is cancelling blanket environmental protections that have been in place since the 1970s and making it easier to develop open-pit coal mines in some of the province's most ecologically sensitive areas.

Environmental | 142 hits | 7:37 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

You may have noticed that we’re getting less snow in winter as the climate warms. But how much? A new study provides the best estimate yet of much snow North America has been losing, and shows Eurasia’s snowfall has held steady.

Environmental | 136 hits | 9:13 PM on Thursday | posted by Freakinoldguy

The figures, compiled by engineers at Imperial College London and the University of Edinburgh, make fire the second-largest cause of accidents after blade failure.

Environmental | 280 hits | 11:13 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

Environmentalists call for crackdown on ‘destructive’ vessels after fleet spotted

Environmental | 272 hits | 9:46 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

As the coronavirus pandemic cripples the US economy, corporate giants are turning to Congress for help. Polluting industries have been among the first in line: Congress has already bailed out airlines, and coal companies have snagged over $30 million in f

Environmental | 90 hits | 6:46 PM on Wednesday | posted by Scape

B.C. Premier John Horgan and provincial Energy Minister Bruce Ralston announced plans Wednesday to use $120 million in federal funds to clean up thousands of so-called orphan oil and gas wells.

Environmental | 88 hits | 6:53 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

Visitors to the Padre Island National Seashore in Texas are discovering blue dragons during their trips, and though it may not be the flying, fire-breathing creatures their name may suggest, it's still 'a rare find,' the park says.

Environmental | 118 hits | 9:18 PM on Saturday | posted by uwish

Record-breaking high and low temperatures were recorded in parts of Canada going into the weekend, including the nearly 28 C recorded in the Squamish area of British Columbia and the -4.2 C recorded in Kitchener, Ont.

Environmental | 106 hits | 9:43 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

A small flock of shorebirds contaminated with oil after touching down on a northern Alberta tailings pond is expected to be released back into the wild within a week.

Environmental | 128 hits | 7:36 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

The once mighty northern cod stocks' growth is stalled according to DFO science. Ecosystem conditions including a lack of food are contributing factors. Fish harvesters say in the bigger picture though, the numbers are moving in the right direction.

Environmental | 127 hits | 6:01 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

Electricity generated by renewable sources like solar, wind and hydro has exceeded coal-fired power in the United States for a record 40 straight days, according to a report based on U.S. government data released on Monday. The boost for renewables is

Environmental | 152 hits | 6:39 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

The Asian giant hornet stings through clothing like a red-hot needle and slaughters honeybees by the thousands.

Environmental | 265 hits | 7:00 AM on Thursday | posted by uwish

Glacier surges of 100s of meters within mere months have been occurring throughout High Mountain Asia (the Karakoram region, especially) for decades, even centuries. It’s the Karakoram “anomaly”, and it’s thought to be “natural”. So why are the regions wh

Environmental | 286 hits | 6:41 AM on Tuesday | posted by uwish

BBC, which in September 2018 announced its decision to censor any reports by climate skeptics, continues to propagandize for climate alarmists. On March 12, BBC “Science Correspondent” Jonathan Amos published an alarming article entitled “Greenland and An

Environmental | 240 hits | 7:45 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

Changes are coming to the Arctic so fast, scientists haven't even had a chance to understand what's there, the report suggests.

Environmental | 410 hits | 7:03 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

The health of insect populations globally is far more varied than previous research suggested.

Environmental | 309 hits | 8:10 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

As the coronavirus pandemic exploded across the world earlier this year, another even more conspicuous plague was tearing through East Africa: locusts. The voracious little beasts are particularly fond of carbohydrates like grains, a staple of subsistence

Environmental | 350 hits | 4:50 AM on Friday | posted by BeaverFever

It was the biggest oil spill ever in U.S. waters and remains one of the worst environmental disasters in world history.

Environmental | 416 hits | 9:32 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

The mountains northwest of Oslo are some of Europe’s highest, and they are covered with snow throughout the year. Norwegians call them the Jotunheimen, meaning the home of the jötnar—the giants of Norse mythology.

Environmental | 232 hits | 7:25 AM on Thursday | posted by uwish

They find “the warmest 30-year period since 730 CE occurred during high Medieval times (876–905 CE=+0.78 °C w.r.t. 1961–1990) and has been slightly warmer than the recent period from 1985–2014 (+0.71 °C)“.

Environmental | 390 hits | 6:06 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

There was a dramatic melting of Greenland’s ice sheet in the summer of 2019, researchers have confirmed, in a study that reveals the loss was largely down to a persistent zone of high pressure over the region. The ice sheet melted at a near record rate

Environmental | 246 hits | 9:14 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

Officials with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans are looking into the death of a humpback whale that washed ashore on a remote island just off Vancouver Island’s northwest coast.

Environmental | 234 hits | 7:47 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

On Richmond Crescent in Norfolk, Va., more than a dozen homes rise in varying heights, forming a streetscape bar graph tracing the past decade’s increasing threat of flooding from an inlet of the Lafayette River. A green house with a prominent front porch

Environmental | 270 hits | 7:23 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

Wild pigs are wreaking havoc across Canada, building “pigloo” shelters as they expand their territory. The animals are the descendants of wild boars who were imported to the country from Europe in the late Eighties and early Nineties in an attempt to i

Environmental | 447 hits | 4:33 PM on Tuesday | posted by Scape

Record-size hole opens in ozone layer above the Arctic

Environmental | 182 hits | 6:09 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Earlier this year, scientists warned that the Great Barrier Reef could be on the brink of its most widespread bleaching event ever recorded. That fear has been realized. Surveys conducted by scientists at Australia’s James Cook University and the Great

Environmental | 180 hits | 1:12 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Many people worldwide spend time indoors in response to the coronavirus pandemic, and animals are making appearances in places where people usually spend time.

Environmental | 190 hits | 8:08 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

As humans retreat into their homes as more and more countries go under coronavirus lockdown, wild animals are slipping cover to explore the empty streets of some of our biggest cities.

Environmental | 379 hits | 6:19 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

Report says plastic from Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé and Unilever products could cover 83 football pitches every day

Environmental | 379 hits | 12:15 PM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday abruptly waived enforcement on a range of legally mandated public-health and environmental protections, saying industries could have trouble complying with them during the coronavirus pandemic.

Environmental | 504 hits | 9:24 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has suffered a mass bleaching event - the third in just five years. The reef’s head management agency confirmed there was “very widespread bleaching detected”. The 345,400-square kilometre World Heritage-listed coral n

Environmental | 353 hits | 8:15 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

Pollution has dropped in major US cities as America shuts down to halt the spread of the coronavirus. Satellite images show nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations from 10 March to 22 March, 2020 compared to the same period last year.

Environmental | 273 hits | 7:12 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

The researchers said in a few years, even inefficient electric cars will be less emission-intensive than most new petrol cars in most countries.

Environmental | 474 hits | 1:32 PM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

2019, nearly two dozen water agencies in Southern California were found to have reportable levels of cancer-causing chemical compounds in their wells. By 2020, 700 agencies with similar contamination had been identified across the United States. These com

Environmental | 331 hits | 7:47 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

After failing to grow wheat in Canada’s subarctic Yukon territory 15 years ago, farmer Steve Mackenzie-Grieve gave it another shot in 2017. Thanks to longer summers, he has reaped three straight harvests. This spring he plans to sow canola on his family’s

Environmental | 203 hits | 6:16 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

Parks where rare mountain gorillas live are being closed to visitors, citing "advice from scientific experts indicating that primates, including mountain gorillas, are likely susceptible to complications arising from the COVID-19 virus."

Environmental | 515 hits | 7:20 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

The push against single-use plastic has some emotive mascots, including the iconic turtle with a straw in its nose. The working hypothesis about why turtles are so attracted to plastic is that plastic drifting in the ocean can look a lot like jellyfish. B

Environmental | 173 hits | 12:29 PM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Hedgehog numbers are declining in part because so many are killed while crossing our roads.

Environmental | 256 hits | 12:03 PM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog

The hereditary chiefs are in the pockets of anti-pipeline U.S. Tides Foundation, which funds their activities, and others in the well-heeled environmental lobby

Environmental | 242 hits | 12:13 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Plastics made from fossil fuels generate a lot of greenhouse gas emissions and waste. 'Bioplastics,' especially compostable plastics made from plants, have been touted as a greener alternative. But what are they really? And are they really more environmen

Environmental | 353 hits | 12:18 PM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

California began regulating surface water in rivers and streams in 1914, but it took the state another 100 years to look underground. In 2014, for the first time in its history, California passed a law regulating the use of groundwater – the resource o

Environmental | 218 hits | 1:17 PM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

Emily Eaton is an associate professor in the department of geography and environmental studies at the U of R. As part of her research into the effects of the fossil fuel industry on Saskatchewan education, she submitted a freedom of information request to

Environmental | 317 hits | 12:12 AM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog

The Liberal government has been forced to apologize after coming clean about concealing nearly $200,000 in contracts awarded to an environmental group.

Environmental | 230 hits | 11:53 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

The Australian bushfires were more catastrophic than any simulation of our changing climate predicted. This is the conclusion of researchers who described the devastation as a "fiery wake-up call for climate science".

Environmental | 174 hits | 10:12 AM on Tuesday | posted by Freakinoldguy

A team of researchers at the University of Ottawa is closing in on a new carbon capture technology capable of absorbing the industrial byproduct before it hits the atmosphere.

Environmental | 206 hits | 8:46 AM on Monday | posted by uwish

New Study: A Massive Cooling Of 2°C In 8 Years (2008-2016) Has Jolted Large Regions Of The North Atlantic

Environmental | 297 hits | 7:33 AM on Monday | posted by uwish

The real climate crisis may be global cooling, not warming, and it may have started.

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