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Environmental | 101 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.

Environmental | 79 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.

Environmental | 73 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.

Environmental | 120 hits | 6:42 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Investigators say the mysterious deaths of 330 elephants in Botswana were caused by toxic blooms of cyanobacteria, a dangerous phenomenon that has been increasing worldwide because of climate change.

Environmental | 145 hits | 9:31 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

The world's richest 10% were responsible for more than half of cumulative carbon emissions in the quarter-century to 2015, according to new estimates. Oxfam International and the Stockholm Environment Institute made the claim in a new report published

Environmental | 96 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.

Environmental | 119 hits | 7:14 AM on Monday | posted by uwish

Using satellite technology, NASA determined that between 2003 and 2019, global fires have dropped by roughly 25 percent. This makes the “climate change is worsening wildfires” argument completely moot. A series of follow-on sensors called the Visible Inf

Environmental | 114 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.

Environmental | 125 hits | 7:32 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

Victoria Morris has had her fair share of orca encounters, but nothing quite like this.

Environmental | 122 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.

Environmental | 120 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.

Environmental | 159 hits | 1:08 PM on Tuesday | posted by Scape

David Legates, a longtime climate change skeptic, has been appointed by the Trump administration to help run the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agency charged with producing "much of the climate research funded" by the govern

Environmental | 245 hits | 8:04 AM on Monday | posted by Robair

The B.C. Wildfire service is not only fighting fires but boosting relations between the U.S. and Canada. The wildfire service has been assisting its American counterparts with a large wildfire that broke out just south of the national border, providing

Environmental | 136 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.

Environmental | 244 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.

Environmental | 263 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.

Environmental | 151 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.

Environmental | 106 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.

Environmental | 140 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 | 121 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.

Environmental | 114 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.

Environmental | 202 hits | 12:06 PM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

The World Wildlife Fund says species at risk of global extinction have seen population falls of 40%.

Environmental | 175 hits | 10:51 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Meltwater from shrinking glaciers is creating vast lakes that could eventually pose an enormous flooding threat, says newly published research. “Unsurprisingly, we found those lakes are growing,” said Dan Shugar, a geographer at the University of Calga

Environmental | 127 hits | 7:20 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

The Calgary Wildlife Rehabilitation Society is fielding concerning calls from people who have taken in wild animals, looking for help.

Environmental | 226 hits | 6:07 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

The effort is part of the billionaire philanthropist’s push to help fight climate change, and is targeted at helping utilities slash their emissions of planet-warming gases without undermining grid reliability. TerraPower LLC, which Gates founded 14 ye

Environmental | 221 hits | 9:39 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

In February, non-profit EU solar panel recycling body PV Cycle announced it had collected 5,000 tons of modules in France, of which 94.7% could be recycled. A reader asked us about the remaining 5.3%

Environmental | 178 hits | 6:58 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

As wind energy deployment increases and larger wind‐power plants are considered, bird fatalities through collision with moving turbine rotor blades are expected to increase. However, few (cost‐) effective deterrent or mitigation measures have

Environmental | 112 hits | 6:42 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

Flight of the Monarch Day was held in Toronto Saturday, as well as various other locations across Canada, in an effort to raise awareness around declining monarch butterfly populations and ways to help the fluttering insects.

Environmental | 187 hits | 10:26 PM on Sunday | posted by Scape

A dangerous weather situation is unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico. Caryn Ceolin with how two storms headed for the U.S. could break modern meteorological hist...

Environmental | 162 hits | 9:40 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

Humanity will have burned through all the natural resources that the planet can replenish for 2020 by Saturday, according to researchers who said the grim milestone is slightly later than last year after the pandemic slowed runaway overconsumption.

Environmental | 118 hits | 6:03 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

Greenland lost a record amount of ice during an extra warm 2019, with the melt massive enough to cover California in more than 1.25 metres of water, a new study said. After two years when summer ice melt had been minimal, last summer shattered all reco

Environmental | 119 hits | 7:49 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

A German icebreaker carrying scientists on a year-long international expedition in the High Arctic has reached the North Pole, after making an unplanned detour because of lighter-than-usual sea ice conditions.

Environmental | 179 hits | 3:43 AM on Thursday | posted by BeaverFever

In a nationwide blitz, gas companies and their allies fight climate efforts that they consider an existential threat to their business

Environmental | 116 hits | 7:44 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

Calgary is in the midst of a heat wave, so it's probably hard to imagine that around this time in 1992, the city was dealing with a persistent overnight frost. Gardeners, in particular, may remember that summer with frustration; temperatures dropped be

Environmental | 140 hits | 5:18 PM on Tuesday | posted by BeaverFever

More than 10 times as much plastic has been found in the Atlantic ocean than previously estimated to be there, showing the the world’s plastic problem is likely to be much greater than realised.

Environmental | 166 hits | 1:09 PM on Tuesday | posted by Scape

NASA researchers say the Earth's magnetic field has a weak spot and it's splitting in two, impacting satellites and other spacecraft.

Environmental | 135 hits | 9:09 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Fish market favourites such as orange roughy, common octopus and pink conch are among the species of fish and invertebrates in rapid decline around the world, according to new research. In the first study of its kind, researchers at UBC, the GEOMAR Hel

Environmental | 90 hits | 8:06 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

A rare white orca was spotted off the southeast coast of Alaska earlier this month, creating excitement for researchers and whale watchers alike.

Environmental | 189 hits | 3:52 PM on Monday | posted by Scape

Crops in 57 Iowa counties sustained damage from the 100-mph, hurricane-force windstorm that swept through the state last Monday, according to Mike Naig, Iowa Secretary of Agriculture. Darren Frye, president and CEO of Water Street Solutions, a commodit

Environmental | 94 hits | 2:17 PM on Monday | posted by Scape

A thermometer at Death Valley's Furnace Creek in the Southern California desert has soared to 54.4 C (130 F), the highest global temperature in more than a century, the U.S. National Weather Service said.

Environmental | 187 hits | 9:42 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

Hundreds of workers fell ill after cleaning up America’s largest industrial disaster without proper gear. At least 50 have died. Twelve years later, they’re still waiting for help

Environmental | 131 hits | 6:16 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

After exhausting areas close to home, China’s vast fishing fleet has moved into the waters of other nations, depleting fish stocks. More than seafood is at stake, as China looks to assert itself on the seas and further its geo-political ambitions, from Ea

Environmental | 158 hits | 9:31 AM on Sunday | posted by DrCaleb

The MV Wakashio, which spilled more than 1,000 tonnes of fuel oil off Mauritius, has split apart.

Environmental | 465 hits | 10:20 AM on Saturday | posted by DrCaleb

Greenland's ice sheet is likely to melt away no matter how quickly the world reduces climate-warming emissions, new research suggests.

Environmental | 148 hits | 9:06 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting Pty is hoping a charm offensive, from annual fundraising parties to local refurbishments at a golf course, will help overcome opposition to a massive new coal mine in Canada’s Rocky Mountains.

Environmental | 218 hits | 7:42 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

Brazil's Jair Bolsanaro calls new Amazon fires a "lie" — as videos show the rainforest burning By Sophie Lewis August 12, 2020 / 3:02 PM / CBS News Fires currently surging in the Amazon rainforest could be even more devastating than last year's,

Environmental | 154 hits | 8:31 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

The tiny nation of Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean is comprised of low-lying islands and atolls — circular land masses with water in the middle — no more than two metres above sea level

Environmental | 116 hits | 7:51 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

Salmon fishing has had its ups and downs in recent years, but the overall trend is for fewer fish to return to spawn in the important Fraser River, which drains a large part of British Columbia and is vital habitat for salmon.

Environmental | 201 hits | 10:44 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Every part of the Centennial State is presently under drought or abnormally dry conditions for the first time in nearly a decade, according to the National Drought Mitigation Center. Experts say the drought conditions, which are forecasted to last into th

Environmental | 224 hits | 6:59 AM on Tuesday | posted by uwish

Before this year, the Greenland ice sheet had never grown anywhere-close to 4 Gigatons in any of the months of June, July, or August, according to DMI records (which go back to 1981). In addition, the DMI record books also reveal that yesterday’s 4 Gt GAI

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