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Environmental | 69 hits | 12:07 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at how the stickers on fruits and veggies can complicate composting efforts, as well as the biggest players in battery storage.

Environmental | 214 hits | 7:08 AM on Thursday | posted by uwish

It is complete supposition, despite what the CAGW alarmists, climate industry investors, globalists and radical environmentalists claim. Millions of individuals have already been severely harmed (or even killed) because of some of the irresponsible action

Environmental | 161 hits | 8:13 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

In about 24 hours last week a natural phenomenon near Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, developed from a minor inconvenience into a potentially life-threatening hazard. It's not unusual for underwater currents in the Queen Maud Gulf, south of Cambridge Bay, to c

Environmental | 147 hits | 7:23 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

More than a dozen bison from Elk Island National Park will soon be on the move to northern Alberta. Parks Canada is translocating 14 wood bison from the park near Edmonton to Woodland Cree First Nation in the Peace River region within the next week.

Environmental | 169 hits | 10:02 PM on Monday | posted by Freakinoldguy

Environmental | 249 hits | 5:38 PM on Monday | posted by BeaverFever

“I have a firm grasp of the obvious,” Kenney said in a later interview. “There is no reasonable person that can deny that in the decades to come we will see a gradual shift from hydrocarbon-based energy to other forms of energy.”

Environmental | 203 hits | 9:01 AM on Monday | posted by Freakinoldguy

Environmental | 123 hits | 10:38 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog

The four killed by suspected electrocution include a pregnant female, a conservation group says.

Environmental | 118 hits | 6:20 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

Canadian researchers study impact of warming winters as parasites move north

Environmental | 95 hits | 6:19 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

Many bumblebee species have vanished from places where they were once common. Now a new Canadian-led study finds that hotter temperatures during heat waves are to blame, and uses it to predict which bumblebees are most likely to face local extinction as t

Environmental | 192 hits | 7:53 AM on Thursday | posted by uwish

A freight train derailed near Guernsey, Sask. early Thursday morning, closing a major highway in both directions.

Environmental | 163 hits | 7:12 AM on Monday | posted by uwish

Recent decades in the reconstruction (1959–2009) show a warming trend that is not exceptional in the context of the last five millennia. The long-term relationship between our temperature reconstruction and a reconstructed total solar irradiance record, w

Environmental | 171 hits | 9:09 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

As millions of monarchs made a 3,220-kilometre journey from Canada to Mexico each October, Homero Gómez González tried to protect them

Environmental | 267 hits | 10:09 AM on Thursday | posted by Prof_Chomsky

Environmental | 209 hits | 7:40 AM on Thursday | posted by uwish

You wouldn’t know it from mainstream media coverage but, far from disappearing, annual global snowfall is actually becoming heavier.... This is precisely the opposite of what climate change alarmists predicted as the global warming narrati

Environmental | 120 hits | 6:27 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

Environment Canada is releasing scientific evidence today to back up the government's bid to ban most single-use plastics next year. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced last June the government was getting ready to prohibit the production and sale

Environmental | 426 hits | 6:57 AM on Wednesday | posted by uwish

There is nothing catastrophic, alarming, or even a little worrisome about this data, and it comfortably puts to bed all those "prophecies of doom".

Environmental | 301 hits | 12:03 PM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

A tax on carbon dioxide emissions in Great Britain, introduced in 2013, has led to the proportion of electricity generated from coal falling from 40% to 3% over six years, according to research led by UCL.

Environmental | 153 hits | 10:21 AM on Monday | posted by uwish

According to the energy laws, it is not possible that the LW absorption of 155.6 Wm-2 by the GH gases could re-emit downward LW radiation of 345.6 Wm-2 on the Earth’s surface

Environmental | 202 hits | 10:20 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Vanessa Nakate was excised from image, which also featured Greta Thunberg, ‘purely on composition grounds’ says Associated Press

Environmental | 185 hits | 1:46 PM on Tuesday | posted by uwish

Despite stressing global sea level rise is worrisome and due to anthropogenic warming, Chafik et al. (2019) report a distinct cooling trend in the North Atlantic that coincides with a transition to falling regional sea levels since 2004.

Environmental | 250 hits | 5:40 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Despite reports that global emissions of the potent greenhouse gas hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) were almost eliminated in 2017, an international team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has found atmospheric levels growing at record values.

Environmental | 277 hits | 12:39 AM on Monday | posted by Freakinoldguy

Anyone in Canada who knows anything about the target on the back of Canadian oil and gas knows the name Vivian Krause.

Environmental | 280 hits | 7:53 AM on Wednesday | posted by uwish

California and Australia share a common enemy: overzealous environmental regulation. In both places, the unintended consequences of a radical environmentalist agenda has been massive wildfires.

Environmental | 180 hits | 7:42 AM on Wednesday | posted by uwish

Today we look at Canadian temperature trends using the data from the Japan Meteorological Institute (JMA) for stations where they have data available going back to at least the mid 1990s. The data hardly show the trends you’d expect from a place that is

Environmental | 151 hits | 7:37 AM on Wednesday | posted by uwish

The previous record-holder was the year 2008, when the sun was blank for 268 days. That was during the epic Solar Minimum of 2008-2009, formerly the deepest of the Space Age. Now 2019 has moved into first place. Solar Minimum is a normal part of the 11

Environmental | 217 hits | 10:56 AM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog

For years Glacier National Park has been warning on their visitor signs that their main attraction, the glaciers, would be “gone by 2020.”

Environmental | 284 hits | 1:09 PM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog

The northernmost Orkney island, North Ronaldsay, is home to just 50 people and 2,000 sheep. Since the 19th Century, when islanders built a stone wall to confine the flock to the shoreline, it has survived on seaweed alone - and it now seems that this spec

Environmental | 167 hits | 12:53 PM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Officials warn that human activity is resulting in rising numbers of elephant deaths.

Environmental | 157 hits | 1:59 PM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog

The hunger strikers are to live on a diet of only water and vitamins and will continue as long as possible without risking hospitalization

Environmental | 170 hits | 1:53 PM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog

More than 10,000 camels will be killed by professional shooters in helicopters from Wednesday after an order from Aboriginal leaders in South Australia.

Environmental | 164 hits | 12:47 PM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Legal resistance to wind farms has become more common in Germany as the country switches to renewable energy. The Social Democrats have suggested direct financial compensation for those who live near a windmill.

Environmental | 210 hits | 12:18 PM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Canada's building codes are modernized every five years. The next update is due this year and is likely to see the first changes meant to address the country's new climate reality.

Environmental | 185 hits | 10:33 AM on Thursday | posted by uwish

The increase of the OLR is higher then the decrease of the RSR. Also the incoming solar radiation is decreasing. As a result, over the 2000–2018 period the Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI) appears to have a downward trend of −0.16 ± 0.11 W/m2dec. The EE

Environmental | 189 hits | 8:10 AM on Thursday | posted by uwish

Climate activists often warn that global warming is stoking forest fires, but it turns out the amount of land burned by wildfires worldwide has plummeted by 25% since 2003, according to NASA.

Environmental | 220 hits | 7:53 AM on Thursday | posted by uwish

Bat scientists recently warned that wind turbines are on the verge of making one species, the Hoary bat, a migratory bat species, go extinct.

Environmental | 243 hits | 7:48 AM on Thursday | posted by uwish

Four reconstructions from the central and western High Arctic reveal July temperatures were about 1-2°C warmer than today during most of the 1st millennium and Medieval period (Tamo and Gajewski, 2019).

Environmental | 177 hits | 12:42 AM on Thursday | posted by Hyack

John Ilett and his colleagues were working at a fish farm off the coast of northern Vancouver Island this week when they spotted a bald eagle in the death grip of an octopus and filmed the unfolding drama.

Environmental | 204 hits | 5:53 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

Oxygen in the oceans is being lost at an unprecedented rate, with “dead zones” proliferating and hundreds more areas showing oxygen dangerously depleted, as a result of the climate emergency and intensive farming, experts have warned.

Environmental | 80 hits | 12:32 AM on Saturday | posted by Hyack

Environmental | 215 hits | 7:34 AM on Friday | posted by uwish

Two companies are on the hook for looking after a mercury-contaminated site near Ontario's Grassy Narrows First Nation, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.

Environmental | 264 hits | 7:04 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

The blaze across 300,000 hectares (1,150 sq m) is just an hour's drive from the nation's most-populous city. People who cannot defend their property from approaching fires have been told they should leave immediately. Since October, bushfires have k

Environmental | 238 hits | 11:55 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog

The bear will likely have trouble hunting due to a decreased ability to camouflage itself.

Environmental | 164 hits | 7:38 AM on Wednesday | posted by uwish

photo evidence confirms sea levels in 5 studied equatorial regions have fallen by about 60 cm since the 17th century…and remained stable since the 1970s.

Environmental | 207 hits | 3:54 PM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Nikki Henderson, 26, flew to the US from Britain to sail the 48-foot catamaran. The journey was meant to save about two or three tons of CO2 emissions, but her flight likely produced that amount.

Environmental | 216 hits | 12:30 AM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog

After three years, the mystery of how a solar-powered wooden houseboat washed ashore in Ireland has been solved, with its Canadian inventor coming forward to shed light on its journey.

Environmental | 251 hits | 11:45 AM on Wednesday | posted by uwish

Environmental journalists and advocates have in recent weeks made a number of apocalyptic predictions about the impact of climate change. Bill McKibben suggested climate-driven fires in Australia had made koalas “functionally extinct.” Extinction Rebellio

Environmental | 135 hits | 7:08 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

For generations, people in Alaska's far-north whaling villages have relied on hand-built ice cellars dug deep into the permafrost to age their subsistence food to perfection and keep it cold throughout the year.

Environmental | 231 hits | 1:47 AM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog

The plan to weaken Alberta's oilsands came together in a Minneapolis hotel. It was the fall of 2008, and a group of NGOs spent part of a conference there brainstorming tactics for slowing down the growth of the oilsands. They identified pipelines as an id

Environmental | 263 hits | 1:23 AM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog

It may be little more than grains of weathered rock, and can be found on deserts and beaches around the world, but sand is also the world’s second most consumed natural resource.

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