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Wildlife take to the streets as people stay indoors Social Sharing
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 | 97 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.
Nature takes back world's empty city streets | CTV NewsEnvironmental | 127 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. Report reveals ‘massive plastic pollution footprint’ of drinks firmsEnvironmental | 308 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 dayU.S. stops enforcing many environmental laws, citing pandemic
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 | 298 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.Great Barrier Reef 'suffers third mass bleaching in five years
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 | 445 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 Coronavirus: Satellite images reveal US pollution drop as Americans stay at homeEnvironmental | 302 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. Electric cars produce less CO2 than petrol vehicles, study confirmsEnvironmental | 195 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. We May Finally Be Able to Destroy a Dreaded ‘Forever Chemical’ in Our Drinking WaterEnvironmental | 400 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 Wheat in Whitehorse: how climate change helps feed Canada's remote regionsEnvironmental | 278 hits | 7:47 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Coronavirus risk to rare mountain gorillas prompts tourist bans
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 | 155 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." Sea turtles think plastic smells like foodEnvironmental | 472 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. BNottingham Trent University study to assess impact of traffic on hedgehogs
Hedgehog numbers are declining in part because so many are killed while crossing our roads.
Environmental | 156 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. The divine right of hereditary chiefs to override the desires and needs of their peopleEnvironmental | 214 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 Plant-based' Compostable' What you need to know about bioplasticsEnvironmental | 201 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 Everything you need to know about California's historic water lawEnvironmental | 298 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 Fossil fuel, climate change research 'being done in secret,' says university prof behind lawsuitEnvironmental | 175 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 Liberals apologize after hiding $183K in contracts awarded to environmental groupEnvironmental | 276 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. Australia fires were far worse than any predictionEnvironmental | 181 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". U of O researchers closing in on better, cheaper carbon capture technologyEnvironmental | 134 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. No Access Reduction in Ocean Heat Transport at 26°N since 2008 Cools the Eastern Subpolar Gyre of the North Atlantic Ocean
Environmental | 166 hits | 8:46 AM on Monday | posted by uwish
Global Cooling May Be Our Bitter-Cold Reality | Climate Dispatch
Environmental | 257 hits | 7:33 AM on Monday | posted by uwish
January was warmest on record for the globeEnvironmental | 211 hits | 7:24 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
We’re off to a hot start in 2020, with January setting a new mark as the warmest instance of that month on record for the globe. And as NOAA pointed out in its monthly summary released Thursday, that occurred without the warming influence of an El Niño in Teck withdraws application for Frontier oilsands mine, citing debate around climate policyEnvironmental | 201 hits | 7:46 PM on Sunday | posted by llama66
Vancouver-based Teck Resources has withdrawn its application to build a massive oilsands project in northern Alberta.India's bird population 'going down sharply'
Much of India's bird population has sharply declined in the past few decades, according to a major study.
The State of India's Birds report relied on the observations of more than 15,000 birdwatchers who helped assess the status of 867 birds.
It fou
Environmental | 146 hits | 12:02 PM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Much of India's bird population has sharply declined in the past few decades, according to a major study.
The State of India's Birds report relied on the observations of more than 15,000 birdwatchers who helped assess the status of 867 birds.
It fou How produce stickers contribute to climate changeEnvironmental | 214 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. A Volcano Eruption Can Emit More CO2 Than All Humanity.Environmental | 265 hits | 7:08 AM on Thursday | posted by uwish
'First time we've heard of this': Wide fissure opens on Arctic sea iceEnvironmental | 212 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 Wood bison returning to Northern Alberta First Nation for first time in more than 100 yearsEnvironmental | 195 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. Health authority monitoring on-leave employee heading up taxpayer-funded protest campEnvironmental | 206 hits | 10:02 PM on Monday | posted by Freakinoldguy
In public shift, Kenney says Alberta has to go green over timeEnvironmental | 284 hits | 5:38 PM on Monday | posted by BeaverFever
Japan to Build 22 Coal-Burning Power Plants
Environmental | 266 hits | 9:01 AM on Monday | posted by Freakinoldguy
Four rare mountain gorillas 'die in Uganda lightning strike'
The four killed by suspected electrocution include a pregnant female, a conservation group says.
Environmental | 159 hits | 10:38 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The four killed by suspected electrocution include a pregnant female, a conservation group says. Thousands of blood-sucking ticks found on bodies of Canadian mooseEnvironmental | 156 hits | 6:20 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
Canadian researchers study impact of warming winters as parasites move north Hotter heat waves are wiping out bumblebees, study findsEnvironmental | 135 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 Train derails near Guernsey, Sask., second derailment in two months | CTV NewsEnvironmental | 238 hits | 7:53 AM on Thursday | posted by uwish
Longest-Ever S. Hemisphere Tree-Ring Reconstruction Finds The 1700s-1800s Were Warmer Than Today
Environmental | 192 hits | 7:12 AM on Monday | posted by uwish
He was protecting the monarch butterfly from Mexico's illegal loggers, but he was the one in dangerEnvironmental | 196 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 Record Warm Water Measured Beneath Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday’ GlacierEnvironmental | 290 hits | 10:09 AM on Thursday | posted by Prof_Chomsky
No Evidence That Snow Is Disappearing
Environmental | 237 hits | 7:40 AM on Thursday | posted by uwish
Environment Canada to release science review backing need for plastics banEnvironmental | 161 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 Bad News Alarmists Official Data Reveals Arctic Sea Ice is once again GROWING
Environmental | 474 hits | 6:57 AM on Wednesday | posted by uwish
British carbon tax leads to 93% drop in coal-fired electricityEnvironmental | 336 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.View of Challenging the Greenhouse Effect Specification and the Climate Sensitivity of the IPCC
Environmental | 181 hits | 10:21 AM on Monday | posted by uwish
Outrage at whites-only image as Ugandan climate activist cropped from photo
Vanessa Nakate was excised from image, which also featured Greta Thunberg, ‘purely on composition grounds’ says Associated Press
Environmental | 226 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 PressNorth Atlantic Sea Levels Have Been Falling At A Rate Of 7.1 mm/yr Since 2004…In Tandem With 2°C Cooling
Environmental | 213 hits | 1:46 PM on Tuesday | posted by uwish
Emissions of potent greenhouse gas rises, contradicting reports of huge reductionsEnvironmental | 279 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. Corbella: Researcher exposes money trail behind U.S.-based campaign to kill the oilsandsEnvironmental | 300 hits | 12:39 AM on Monday | posted by Freakinoldguy
Don’t Blame Climate Change For Raging Wildfires, Blame Bad Management
Environmental | 321 hits | 7:53 AM on Wednesday | posted by uwish
Canada’s Missing Heat: Stations Across The Country Show More Cooling Than WarmingEnvironmental | 209 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 Solar Minimum is becoming very deep indeed. Over the weekend, the sun set a Space Age record for spotlessness. So far in 2019, the sun has been without sunspots for more than 270 days, including the last 33 days in a row. Since the Space Age began, no oth
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 | 184 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.
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