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Young beluga whale struggling after relocation, marine mammal group saysEnvironmental | 301 hits | 12:42 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
It is unclear whether a young whale flown from a New Brunswick river to Quebec is able to eat or has joined other belugas, a marine mammal group says. Gangs of aggressive killer whales are shaking down Alaska fishing boats for their fishEnvironmental | 123 hits | 8:50 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
The orcas will wait all day for a fisher to accumulate a catch of halibut, and then deftly rob them blind. They will relentlessly stalk individual fishing boats, sometimes forcing them back into port.
Most chilling of all, this is new: After decades of Strange sight: Black bears above treeline in northern QuebecEnvironmental | 348 hits | 1:14 AM on Monday | posted by Hyack
Black bears typically stay near the treeline — but what was this guy doing so far up North, away from it? Salluit, one of the northernmost communities in the Nunavik region of Quebec, is far away from the treeline. Millions of tropical sea creatures 'blooming' off B.C. coastEnvironmental | 370 hits | 11:49 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack
Millions of translucent, sea cucumber-shaped pyrosomes have 'invaded' northern waters. Local scientists know little about them and say it's unclear how long the tropical creatures will survive or what impact they might have on the local food chain. B.C. town battles pesky marmots with chunky peanut butter and liquoriceEnvironmental | 372 hits | 10:24 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack
If you spot an odd but potentially delicious mix of chunky peanut butter, red liquorice, peeled sweet apple, and fresh lettuce lying about the town of Princeton, B.C., don't indulge yourself — it's a marmot trap.REPORT: $12.7 Trillion Needed To Meet Paris Accord's Goal
A whopping $7.4 trillion will be spent globally on new green energy facilities in the coming decades, according to a new report.
Environmental | 512 hits | 10:49 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
A whopping $7.4 trillion will be spent globally on new green energy facilities in the coming decades, according to a new report. Wind turbines are neither clean nor green and they provide zero global energy | The SpectatorEnvironmental | 147 hits | 10:29 PM on Thursday | posted by Freakinoldguy
Trout gobbling up mice along Nova Scotia riversEnvironmental | 463 hits | 4:08 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
Mice are apparently on the menu for some trout in Nova Scotia, with fishermen discovering the rodents inside the bellies of fish they've caught. Painted Lady butterflies to grace Alberta with rare migrationEnvironmental | 430 hits | 6:47 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
A rare kaleidoscope of painted lady butterflies will be invading Alberta this summer. It’s an epic migration that only comes every 10 to 15 years. More than a few acres: the vital importance of snow to B.C.'s climateEnvironmental | 389 hits | 1:52 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
This ancient snow forest in B.C.'s Interior illustrates how snow is crucial to maintaining one of B.C.'s most precious resources — fresh water. Squadron of American white pelicans spotted across Vancouver IslandEnvironmental | 337 hits | 1:51 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
There have been several sightings of a squadron of American white pelicans on Vancouver Island. Birder says pelicans may be investigating a new migration route. Iqaluit could face water shortage within 5 years, researcher saysEnvironmental | 231 hits | 7:39 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Iqaluit may face a water shortage within five years, owing to shifting seasons, faster warming in the Arctic than anywhere on Earth and a growing population. Climate change researchers cancel expedition because of climate changeEnvironmental | 328 hits | 5:55 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
A team of scientists had to abandon an expedition from Quebec City to Churchill, Man., on Sunday because of hazardous ice conditions caused by climate change. Oceans Day campaign raises awareness of large amount of plastic in world's oceansEnvironmental | 568 hits | 6:16 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is asking people to be more aware of the amount of plastic they use and throw away.It’s Been So Windy in Europe That Electricity Prices Have Turned Negative
It's been very windy across Europe this week. So much so, in fact, that the high wind load on onshore and offshore wind turbines across much of the continent has helped set new wind power records.
Environmental | 178 hits | 5:46 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
It's been very windy across Europe this week. So much so, in fact, that the high wind load on onshore and offshore wind turbines across much of the continent has helped set new wind power records.U.S. Pays Farmers Billions To Save The Soil. But It's Blowing Away
Right now, the government rents farmland to help protect soil and water. But once the land is farmed again, the benefits disappear. Environmentalists want to change that.
Environmental | 490 hits | 9:24 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Right now, the government rents farmland to help protect soil and water. But once the land is farmed again, the benefits disappear. Environmentalists want to change that. 'It's heartbreaking': volunteers overwhelmed by marine debris in Clayoquot SoundEnvironmental | 506 hits | 7:07 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack
Volunteers who are cleaning up marine debris from a remote area on the west coast of Vancouver Island say they are overwhelmed by what they've found. Ocean acidity increasing along Pacific coast, study findsEnvironmental | 404 hits | 11:35 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack
The ocean's role in absorbing levels of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has led to increased acidity on the west coast, leaving certain species increasingly vulnerable. Another Climate Alarmist Admits Real Motive Behind Warming Scare | Stock News & Stock Market AnalysisEnvironmental | 209 hits | 12:44 PM on Saturday | posted by Freakinoldguy
Global warming alarmists have effectively sown fright but done a poor job of hiding their real motivation. Another reveals what's driving the climate scare.Massive iceberg set to break off from Antarctic ice shelf
A chunk of ice so large it will be visible from space is poised to break off from an Antarctic ice shelf, British scientists have found.
Environmental | 508 hits | 6:05 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack
A chunk of ice so large it will be visible from space is poised to break off from an Antarctic ice shelf, British scientists have found.Man-eating Nile crocodiles found roaming Florida swamps
Step aside, Burmese python — you may no longer be Florida's scariest invasive species. Researchers have confirmed that three Nile crocodiles were captured near Miami, and they say it's possible more of the man-eating reptiles are still out there.
Environmental | 498 hits | 4:11 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
Step aside, Burmese python — you may no longer be Florida's scariest invasive species. Researchers have confirmed that three Nile crocodiles were captured near Miami, and they say it's possible more of the man-eating reptiles are still out there. The world's coral reefs are in trouble, but don't give up on them yetEnvironmental | 205 hits | 7:36 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
The world's coral reefs are undoubtedly in deep trouble. But as we and our colleagues argue in a review published today in Nature, we shouldn't give up hope for coral reefs, despite the pervasive doom and gloom. 'It's a fantasy': Vancouver's goal to make False Creek 'swimmable' by 2018 unrealistic, say criticsEnvironmental | 150 hits | 10:05 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack
City council has voted to clean up the E. coli-stricken waterway, but its legacy of industrial waste and sewage discharge have some critics calling it a pipe dream. A third of the nation's honeybee colonies died last year.Environmental | 370 hits | 6:00 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
America's beekeepers watched as a third of the country's honeybee colonies were lost over the last year, part of a decade-long die-off experts said may threaten our food supply.
The annual survey of roughly 5,000 beekeepers showed the 33% dip from Apri 'Most dangerous situation I've ever seen': B.C. hot springs closed over food-habituated bearsEnvironmental | 416 hits | 12:31 AM on Monday | posted by Hyack
Bears have grown accustomed to eating food discarded by people at a popular recreation spot northwest of Pemberton. New Technology Burns Natural Gas with No CO2 EmissionsEnvironmental | 555 hits | 5:26 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
How can we burn natural gas without releasing CO2 into the air? This feat is achieved using a special combustion method that TU Wien has been researching for years: chemical looping combustion (CLC). In this process, CO2 can be isolated during combustion 'They all have plastic inside them': New film explores our impact on Pacific albatrossesEnvironmental | 585 hits | 7:04 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Photographer Chris Jordan is releasing a new documentary about the devastating effects of ocean plastic on the lives of albatrosses on one Pacific island.Arctic stronghold of world’s seeds flooded after permafrost melts
No seeds were lost but the ability of the rock vault to provide failsafe protection against all disasters is now threatened by climate change
Environmental | 473 hits | 5:29 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
No seeds were lost but the ability of the rock vault to provide failsafe protection against all disasters is now threatened by climate change Vancouver Island groups raise salmon as meals for hungry southern resident orcasEnvironmental | 144 hits | 12:21 PM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
VICTORIA — A unique salmon enhancement project on Vancouver Island aims to feed hungry southern resident killer whales by increasing the number of large adult chinook salmon in Juan de Fuca Strait. Tick-mageddon on Mantario Trail overwhelms experienced hikersEnvironmental | 416 hits | 6:53 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
Four friends say they pulled off about 400 ticks off their clothes and skin during a three-day camping trip along the Mantario Trail last weekend.Climate change is turning Antarctica green, say researchers | Science | The Guardian
In the past 50 years the quantity and rate of plant growth has shot up, says study, suggesting further warming could lead to rapid ecosystem changes
Environmental | 383 hits | 6:52 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
In the past 50 years the quantity and rate of plant growth has shot up, says study, suggesting further warming could lead to rapid ecosystem changes Where have all the insects gone'Environmental | 414 hits | 6:25 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Entomologists call it the windshield phenomenon. "If you talk to people, they have a gut feeling. They remember how insects used to smash on your windscreen," says Wolfgang Wägele, director of the Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity in Bonn, Germany All the fish in this Banff lake are to be removed and killed to protect other lakes from whirling diseaseEnvironmental | 446 hits | 11:05 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Officials have started pulling all the fish from the lake in Banff National Park where the deadly fish parasite that causes whirling disease was first detected in Canada, in a bid to stop its spread. Canada blocked climate change audit: officialEnvironmental | 407 hits | 4:02 PM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Canada's auditor general blasted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government Tuesday for effectively blocking an audit of efforts to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies in the fight against climate change.Scientists alarmed to find tiny island in the middle of the Pacific littered with highest density of trash in world
Despite Henderson Island's extreme remoteness, an estimated 38 million pieces of trash washed up on its beaches
Environmental | 427 hits | 7:30 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Despite Henderson Island's extreme remoteness, an estimated 38 million pieces of trash washed up on its beachesIn record-breaking weekend, Germany got 85% of its electricity from renewables
Germany is kicking all kinds of sustainable butt when it comes to its use of renewable energy sources. According to recently released figures, for the last weekend of April, the country established a jaw-dropping new national record in this department — w
Environmental | 415 hits | 6:01 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
Germany is kicking all kinds of sustainable butt when it comes to its use of renewable energy sources. According to recently released figures, for the last weekend of April, the country established a jaw-dropping new national record in this department — w Wind turbines are neither clean nor green and they provide zero global energyEnvironmental | 561 hits | 8:39 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Even put together, wind and photovoltaic solar are supplying less than 1 per cent of global energy demand.300,000 baby salmon die at Northern California hatchery because a pump failure
300,000 baby salmon died Wednesday inside the temporary holding ponds when faulty wiring switched off a pump. The fish had been staying in since Oroville Dam crisis in early February.
Environmental | 397 hits | 12:18 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
300,000 baby salmon died Wednesday inside the temporary holding ponds when faulty wiring switched off a pump. The fish had been staying in since Oroville Dam crisis in early February.NEW ZEALAND'S AMBITIOUS PLAN TO SAVE BIRDS: KILL EVERY RAT
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- New Zealand has set itself an environmental goal so ambitious it's been compared to putting a man on the moon: ridding the entire nation of every last rat, opossum and stoa
Environmental | 145 hits | 12:17 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- New Zealand has set itself an environmental goal so ambitious it's been compared to putting a man on the moon: ridding the entire nation of every last rat, opossum and stoa Flood risk could remain in B.C.'s southern Interior for some time to comeEnvironmental | 475 hits | 11:32 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
The potential of large-scale flooding in the southern Interior for a second straight weekend is due to a combination of factors that could keep the region in a heightened state of risk for awhile. Kelowna mayor warns residents to prepare for unprecedented flooding tonightEnvironmental | 408 hits | 11:29 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
The mayor of Kelowna, B.C., is warning residents to prepare for dramatic flooding expected to begin Thursday evening as heavy rain returns to the Southern Interior. Other communities in the region are also bracing for more water. Melting glaciers could displace millions as sea levels rise: scientistEnvironmental | 519 hits | 7:06 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
Melting ice and rising sea levels will displace millions of people in our children’s lifetime: an ever-accelerating trend that can be slowed but not stopped, an American glaciologist says.Radioactive railcars' Here's what's happening at the Hanford nuclear waste site
When workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeastern Washington state found a partially collapsed storage tunnel on Tuesday, there was cause for concern. Nowhere in the U.S. is there more nuclear waste and radioactive contamination than at the
Environmental | 292 hits | 5:08 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
When workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeastern Washington state found a partially collapsed storage tunnel on Tuesday, there was cause for concern. Nowhere in the U.S. is there more nuclear waste and radioactive contamination than at the Rare glass sponge reefs on B.C. Coast to star in live streamed expeditionEnvironmental | 249 hits | 4:56 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
The kind of glass sponge found in B.C. was thought to have died off 40 million years ago. Alberta's electricity future blowin' in the windEnvironmental | 298 hits | 8:18 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Alberta is just scratching the surface of getting its electricity from wind, delegates to a conference on wind-generated electricity were told in Edmonton Tuesday. Another Arctic ice panic over as world temperatures plummetEnvironmental | 564 hits | 2:57 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Inevitably, when even satellite temperatures were showing 2016 as the hottest year on record we were going to be told last winter that the Arctic ice was at its lowest extent ever. Warmer weather, more killer whales bad news for Hudson Bay belugasEnvironmental | 531 hits | 12:56 AM on Sunday | posted by Hyack
A study suggests a warming climate and more killer whales could spell bad news for beluga whales in the southwestern portion of Hudson Bay.Hundreds of Leopard sharks mysteriously die in San Francisco Bay
Biologists are trying to figure out why hundreds of leopard sharks are dying in the San Francisco Bay this year.
Environmental | 405 hits | 11:01 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack
Biologists are trying to figure out why hundreds of leopard sharks are dying in the San Francisco Bay this year. Endangered Canada lynx appears to be thriving in New BrunswickEnvironmental | 411 hits | 4:13 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack
What was once an incredibly rare species to glimpse in New Brunswick now appears to be thriving in the province.'Shocking' levels of PCB chemicals in UK killer whale Lulu
One of the UK's last killer whales, which was found dead last year, had some of the highest levels of a toxic pollutant ever recorded.
Environmental | 132 hits | 12:19 PM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
One of the UK's last killer whales, which was found dead last year, had some of the highest levels of a toxic pollutant ever recorded.Back to Canada News
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