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Pollution is deadlier than war, smoking and hunger combined: studyEnvironmental | 53 hits | 7:05 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
One out of every six premature deaths in the world in 2015 — about nine million — could be attributed to disease from toxic exposure. WORLD’S FIRST OFFSHORE WIND FARM RETIRES: A POST-MORTEMEnvironmental | 229 hits | 3:03 AM on Friday | posted by Freakinoldguy
More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areasEnvironmental | 52 hits | 5:57 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Global declines in insects have sparked wide interest among scientists, politicians, and the general public. Loss of insect diversity and abundance is expected to provoke cascading effects on food webs and to jeopardize ecosystem services. Our understandiPenguins die in 'catastrophic' Antarctic breeding season
Only two chicks survived in a colony of 36,000 in a "catastrophic" breeding season in east Antarctica.
Environmental | 91 hits | 9:08 AM on Saturday | posted by Tricks
Only two chicks survived in a colony of 36,000 in a "catastrophic" breeding season in east Antarctica. The world�s first �negative emissions� plant has opened in Iceland�turning carbon dioxide into stoneEnvironmental | 285 hits | 6:23 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
There�s a colorless, odorless, and largely benign gas that humanity just can�t get enough of. We produce 40 trillion kg of carbon dioxide each year, and we�re on track to cross a crucial emissions threshold that will cause global temperature rise toA giant hole has opened up in Antarctica as scientists look to find out what is to blame
Environmental | 293 hits | 6:06 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Tokyo preparing for floods 'beyond anything we've seen' | News update, news roundup | Tampa Bay TimesEnvironmental | 311 hits | 6:14 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
KASUKABE, Japan — The cavernous underground cisterns here north of Tokyo could hold the Statue of Liberty, a scale that underscores the site's immense task: protecting the world's most populous metropolis from flooding.Packs of radioactive wild boar are making farmers in Sweden nervous
Farmers fear the high radiation in the animals will stop hunters shooting them, causing the population to spiral with more of them damaging forests and crops
Environmental | 1076 hits | 2:13 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Farmers fear the high radiation in the animals will stop hunters shooting them, causing the population to spiral with more of them damaging forests and crops Provinces fail to meet deadline to protect threatened boreal forest caribou habitatsEnvironmental | 2070 hits | 6:38 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack
The provinces has failed to meet a federal deadline to release plans to protect boreal forests habitats and caribou populations. 'A very large-scale problem': B.C. sees more than 20,000 human-wildlife conflicts in 2017Environmental | 3422 hits | 6:35 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack
More than 14,000 of the complaints were about black bears, while another 1,500 involved cougars and 430 were about grizzly bears. Nearly 500 bears have been destroyed after encounters with humans, including 469 black bears and 27 grizzlies. Attack of the clones: Sperm-stealing Prussian carp threaten to overwhelm Alberta waterwaysEnvironmental | 406 hits | 11:48 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Schools of Prussian carp — a sperm-stealing fish capable of cloning itself — are invading Alberta waterways. Controversial pesticides found in honey samples from six continentsEnvironmental | 171 hits | 11:07 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Neonicotinoids are at the centre of a long-running debate about whether they harm bees. Fraser River salmon impacted by floodgates, according to new SFU studyEnvironmental | 268 hits | 8:40 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
Faulty floodgates along the Fraser River are having harmful effects on salmon stocks, according to a new SFU study. U.S. government will not list Pacific walrus as threatened speciesEnvironmental | 195 hits | 1:49 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
The Trump administration announced Wednesday it will not list the Pacific walrus as a threatened species based on diminished Arctic Ocean sea ice, concluding that the marine mammals have adapted to the loss. Kestrel chicks saved from B.C. wildfire released back into the wildEnvironmental | 202 hits | 6:57 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack
The falcons were found inside a scorched power pole in July, days after the Elephant Hill fire broke out. Rare chicks rescued in Manitoba catch flight to Ontario before flying southEnvironmental | 1868 hits | 11:55 AM on Sunday | posted by Hyack
Four rescued chicks that tumbled from a chimney in Manitoba have been flown to Ontario to join a flock that will hopefully lead them south for the winter. Fraser sockeye returns stay low while feds say they're amping up protectionsEnvironmental | 5685 hits | 9:31 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack
The federal government says it has implemented most recommendations from a 2012 report aimed at revitalizing British Columbia's Fraser River sockeye salmon run but the outlook for the species remains murky. 'Very impressive' marine life enters North America on debris from Japanese tsunamiEnvironmental | 1145 hits | 9:27 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack
Researchers have found that not only is debris from the tsunami making its way to western shores, but so is some marine life never seen before in the region. Miley Cyrus weighs in on 'loophole' in B.C.'s proposed ban on trophy huntingEnvironmental | 294 hits | 6:55 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
Pop star Miley Cyrus is once again weighing in on a controversial environmental issue in B.C. by adding her voice to a new campaign that's calling for the end to all grizzly bear hunting in B.C. Alberta town hopes to pull new kind of energy from old gas wellEnvironmental | 141 hits | 6:47 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
An Alberta town is planning to pull a different kind of energy from the abandoned oil and gas wells that ring its outskirts. St. Albert guts ponds of invasive 'monster' goldfishEnvironmental | 111 hits | 2:11 AM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
Someone set free a pair of pet fish about four years ago. Now, the infested water glimmers gold with thousands of Asian goldfish. The City of St. Albert is battling the invasive species of goldfish by pumping chemicals into two infested stormwater ponds. Fort McMurray fires cause air pollution spike on other side of continentEnvironmental | 102 hits | 2:06 AM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
The huge forest fire in Fort McMurray last year caused air pollution levels to spike as far away as the New England states more than four thousand kilometres on the other side of the continent. New model confirms endangered right whales are decliningEnvironmental | 109 hits | 5:10 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack
Researchers with the federal government and the New England Aquarium have developed a new model they said will provide better estimates about the North Atlantic right whale population, and the news isn't good. World Rivers Day: how a B.C. river cleanup spawned an international movementEnvironmental | 161 hits | 8:37 PM on Monday | posted by Hyack
It started as a cleanup of the Thompson River. Now, it's celebrated in over 60 countries across the world. 'Very rare' King-of-the-Salmon fish found on Vancouver Island beachEnvironmental | 175 hits | 8:34 PM on Monday | posted by Hyack
Ben Baker was walking his dog along Oak Bay's Rattenbury Beach at low tide when he stumbled on the shimmering, purple fish. It turned out to be a massive King-of-the-Salmon fish, measuring about two metres in length. The current record for such a ribbonfi Malnutrition suspected in death of young killer whaleEnvironmental | 145 hits | 8:24 PM on Monday | posted by Hyack
Researchers say a young member of an endangered killer whale population living off British Columbia's coast has died. Researchers with the centre say the Chinook salmon the orcas eat have been in short supply this year. Global warming speeds up due to Pacific 'flip'Environmental | 130 hits | 6:28 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
After slightly slowing for the past 15 years, global warming is once again rising more quickly due to a decade-long weather pattern that warms and cools the Pacific, Britain's meteorological office said Monday. Possible good news about climate change leads to confused coverageEnvironmental | 6186 hits | 6:27 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
Did warming projections just get blown up? No. No they did not. Snow crab fishery to keep 'sustainable' label amid endangered whale deathsEnvironmental | 13015 hits | 8:12 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
The world's leading "ecolabel" is set to once again certify as sustainable the Gulf of St. Lawrence snow crab fishery, even though North Atlantic right whales are being killed by fishing gear. Uncertain future of the North Atlantic right whale linked to its tiny preyEnvironmental | 16459 hits | 12:44 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
The fate of one of the world's largest living animals depends on one of the smallest. Scientists are studying a northward shift of the North Atlantic right whales and their speck-sized prey that could push the whales closer to extinction. More than 1,000 fish lifted over Seymour rock slide as project caps off its third yearEnvironmental | 88 hits | 8:06 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
More than 1,0000 steelhead, coho and pink salmon have been transported over the 2014 rock slide since the installation of a fish fence. The waterway could be restored as early as next year. Huge sea turtles slowly coming back from brink of extinctionEnvironmental | 105 hits | 12:29 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
A new study shows sea turtles are lumbering back from the brink of extinction. There are seven different species of sea turtles, all but one endangered. The slow creatures live for several decades. Cloudy, cool August restrains melt of Arctic sea iceEnvironmental | 98 hits | 12:27 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
Scientists calculate that Arctic sea ice this summer dropped to its eighth lowest level on record. That's far below average, but considerably above the record low set five years ago.California condor takes flight in wild after near extinction
In a remote, rugged valley overlooking the Pacific Ocean, researchers closely monitor an endangered icon: the California condor. One of the world's largest birds with a wingspan up to 10 feet, the condor once patrolled the sky from Mexico to British Colum
Environmental | 104 hits | 12:25 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
In a remote, rugged valley overlooking the Pacific Ocean, researchers closely monitor an endangered icon: the California condor. One of the world's largest birds with a wingspan up to 10 feet, the condor once patrolled the sky from Mexico to British Colum Global warming speeds up due to Pacific 'flip'Environmental | 253 hits | 5:29 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack
After slightly slowing for the past 15 years, global warming is once again rising more quickly due to a decade-long weather pattern that warms and cools the Pacific, Britain's meteorological office said Monday. 123 birds die at Fort Hills oilsands project in northern AlbertaEnvironmental | 1840 hits | 5:26 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack
123 birds that flew into a Suncor oilsands mine have died or been euthanized after they were discovered Sunday. The 123 deaths reported Tuesday are the latest in a series of bird fatalities at Alberta oilsands operations. Scientists say no longer any doubt about impact of pesticides on beesEnvironmental | 397 hits | 6:29 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
because beekeeping is a big business and without bees, billions of dollars of farm crops would go unpollinated. We’re Eating Plastics From Our Own Dirty LaundryEnvironmental | 311 hits | 7:39 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
Every time you wash your fleece jacket or other synthetic clothing, microscopic synthetic fibres are released and end up in our food supply and drinking water.
These microfibres are so small—visible only under a microscope—that they bypass municipal fi Half of Canada's wildlife species are in decline, WWF findsEnvironmental | 333 hits | 8:52 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Despite Canada's vast wilderness, populations of half its vertebrate species are shrinking, a new World Wildlife Fund report finds. And endangered species like woodland caribou and St. Lawrence beluga whales continue to disappear even after becoming prote Plant fungus creeping northwest, infecting Alberta fieldsEnvironmental | 579 hits | 6:55 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Alberta farmers are asking the province to change policies around fusarium graminearum as the destructive plant fungus spreads west across Canada, infecting fields in its path. Green fleet targets shrouded in hypocrisyEnvironmental | 163 hits | 8:10 PM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The Toronto Sun’s Freedom of Information request revealing,
essentially, that Ontario’s Liberal government doesn’t have a hope in hell of hitting its own target for electric vehicle purchases — let alone getting the public to buy them — demonstrates
t Balls of bitumen: Calgary breakthrough could bypass pipeline problem, researcher saysEnvironmental | 4178 hits | 7:10 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
A Calgary engineer thinks an invention he stumbled upon in the laboratory could transform the way Alberta gets its heavy oil to market. Plastic fibres found in tap water around the world, study revealsEnvironmental | 1162 hits | 7:31 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Exclusive: Tests show billions of people globally are drinking water contaminated by plastic particles, with 83% of samples found to be polluted The bad news is that fish are eating lots of plastic. Even worse, they may like itEnvironmental | 1082 hits | 6:46 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Ships slowing in busy West Coast channel to protect endangered orcasEnvironmental | 3477 hits | 7:32 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack
The trial, led by the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, is trying to understand whether reducing commercial vessel speeds can reduce underwater noise and benefit a small, endangered population of killer whales.Monkey, dolphin among hundreds of new species found in Amazon
An orange-tailed monkey and a pink dolphin were among 381 Amazon animals and plants officially recognized as new species in 2014 and 2015, says a new report from the World Wildlife Fund and Brazil’s Mamirauá Institute.
Environmental | 3260 hits | 2:17 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack
An orange-tailed monkey and a pink dolphin were among 381 Amazon animals and plants officially recognized as new species in 2014 and 2015, says a new report from the World Wildlife Fund and Brazil’s Mamirauá Institute.Giant tortoise, huge carnivorous plant among Top 10 new species of 2016
A giant tortoise and a large carnivorous plant are among the Top 10 new species of 2016, the International Institute for Species Exploration says.
Environmental | 4596 hits | 2:12 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack
A giant tortoise and a large carnivorous plant are among the Top 10 new species of 2016, the International Institute for Species Exploration says. Drought conditions prompt B.C. to push for water conservation in Lower Fraser, Vancouver IslandEnvironmental | 4614 hits | 12:51 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack
The province of British Columbia is asking all water users to reduce consumption voluntarily but said it will exercise its powers if necessary to protect ecosystems. Metro Vancouver regional parks under extreme fire warningEnvironmental | 3918 hits | 7:48 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack
With hot temperatures and extra dry conditions, Metro Vancouver is warning people using the regional park system to be vigilant about fire safety this long weekend. Last Lake Superior caribou herd could vanish thanks to hungry wolvesEnvironmental | 416 hits | 6:15 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack
Alarms are being raised in northern Ontario about one of the last remaining caribou herds in the province. Concerned citizens say the herd on a remote island in Lake Superior is close to being wiped out by hungry wolves.Back to Canada News
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