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Environmental | 116 hits | 12:08 PM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

Scientists believe that dust has profound and somewhat mysterious influences on atmospheric chemistry, solar heat exchange and nutrient supply to the oceans and rain forests. What those influences are, exactly, is the subject of much study and is still so

Environmental | 171 hits | 8:06 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack

Large numbers of mammals living in Florida's Everglades are being wiped out by massive pythons, a phenomenon scientists fear could disrupt the food chain and upset the ecosystem, says a new study.

Environmental | 121 hits | 5:30 PM on Monday | posted by Hyack

Researchers say melting Arctic sea ice is enticing more killer whales to Nunavut where they feast on the region's mammals.

Environmental | 127 hits | 5:24 PM on Monday | posted by Hyack

Research shows northern forests in the three prairie provinces are drying up and shrinking from drought caused by climate change, while the eastern boreal forest is holding its own.

Environmental | 102 hits | 6:13 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

Clouds of smoke from Lunar New Year fireworks sent air pollution readings soaring in the more sensitive measurement system Beijing started using a little more than a week ago, reports said Sunday.

Environmental | 101 hits | 6:10 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

The cruise ship that capsized off Italy's coast will take up to 10 months to remove, officials said Sunday, as rough seas off the Tuscan coast forced the suspension of recovery operations.

Environmental | 111 hits | 3:06 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

A First Nation in northern Alberta is outraged because federal environment minister Peter Kent recently said he won't issue an emergency protection order for woodland caribou.

Environmental | 102 hits | 7:19 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack

A second case of fox rabies has been confirmed in Labrador. The province's chief veterinarian says a red fox killed near Labrador City five days ago tested positive for the disease.

Environmental | 118 hits | 4:30 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

Approval has been given for a controversial plan to satellite tag an endangered species of killer whale that plies the waters off the Pacific Coast.

Environmental | 88 hits | 7:32 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

U.S. scientists are estimating that between 5.7 million and 6.7 million bats in Canada and the United States have succumbed to white-nose syndrome, a fungus spreading in eastern North America.

Environmental | 180 hits | 8:49 PM on Monday | posted by Hyack

A huge seal population is preventing cod stocks from rebounding off Nova Scotia, two former directors of science at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography say.

Environmental | 208 hits | 9:35 AM on Friday | posted by SprCForr

An Edmonton-based construction firm was fined $285,000 in court Thursday after pleading guilty to federal Fisheries Act charges.

Environmental | 206 hits | 9:22 AM on Friday | posted by Hyack

International scientists have some bad news for those wondering when global warming will kick in during Canadian winters.

Environmental | 160 hits | 7:24 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

Experts say the slow formation of winter ice on Hudson Bay this year has pushed some polar bears to the brink of starvation.

Environmental | 133 hits | 6:16 PM on Monday | posted by Hyack

Raising its slim, white neck out of the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, one of the world's last surviving whooping cranes hungrily searches a Texas marsh for the blue crabs and berries it devours during its annual migration to the Gulf Coast.

Environmental | 158 hits | 7:45 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

Scientists long puzzled by the rapid decline in millions of Canadian boreal ducks since the 1970s think they may finally have the cause: global warming.

Environmental | 167 hits | 8:33 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack

Three decades of warming in the North Atlantic has led to thinning ice cover in harp seal breeding grounds and drastically higher death rates among seal pups, according to a new study.

Environmental | 141 hits | 8:07 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack

A cargo ship grounded off the New Zealand coast splits in two after being lashed by pounding seas, spilling debris and sparking fears a fresh oil spill could wash ashore, officials say.

Environmental | 258 hits | 12:34 PM on Tuesday | posted by jeff744

From Yahoo! News: Scientists said on Tuesday that they had discovered the world's first hybrid sharks in Australian waters, a potential sign the predators were adapting to cope with climate change.

Environmental | 273 hits | 10:38 PM on Thursday | posted by Regina

Officials say nuclear reactor was shut down and all weapons were removed from the submarine

Environmental | 144 hits | 2:04 AM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

A Department of Fisheries and Oceans research scientist wants Atlantic Canada's harp seal quota set at about 300,000 for the coming season.

Environmental | 381 hits | 5:10 PM on Wednesday | posted by BeaverFever

"Contamination of the Athabasca River is a high-profile concern," said the presentation, marked secret, but released to Postmedia News through access to information legislation. "Recent studies suggest elevated levels of pollutants near mining sites

Environmental | 240 hits | 4:36 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

Ships illegally dumping oil off Canada's coasts are having a harder time getting away with the crime because of a relatively new process used by government scientists.

Environmental | 214 hits | 12:58 AM on Sunday | posted by Scape

Rescuers have saved 14 of the 67 people who were on board a floating oil rig which capsized in the Sea of Okhotsk in Russia's Far East, according to latest r...

Environmental | 205 hits | 11:31 AM on Saturday | posted by Hyack

Birdwatchers are flocking to Boundary Bay in Metro Vancouver to catch a glimpse of snowy owls, which migrate south only once every four or five years, as the CBC's Renee Filippone reports.

Environmental | 284 hits | 2:47 PM on Thursday | posted by Strutz

If you ever wanted to visit a pristine Arctic lake, you're probably about 100 years too late.

Environmental | 339 hits | 5:11 PM on Monday | posted by kitty

The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources plans to kill its promise to protect an ecological gem in Northern Ontario, reclassifying 340 hectares around pristine Wolf Lake from “forest reserve” to “general use.” That would put a greater focus on mining ins

Environmental | 312 hits | 2:45 PM on Monday | posted by QBall

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Canada will pull out of the Kyoto protocol on climate change, Environment Minister Peter Kent said on Monday, dealing a symbolic blow to the troubled global treaty. Canada will become the first country to formally withdraw from Kyoto, which it says is bad

Environmental | 204 hits | 10:05 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack

Statistics Canada says the average area covered by sea ice during summer has declined in all nine of Canada's northern sea-ice regions over the past four decades.

Environmental | 160 hits | 12:18 PM on Tuesday | posted by Scape

The wall of water that struck Japan in March was the result of at least two waves that combined to create a more powerful tsunami, U.S. scientists said Monday.

Environmental | 199 hits | 11:29 PM on Thursday | posted by Strutz

U.S. officials say the Arctic region has changed dramatically for the worse in the past five years. It is melting at a near record pace, and it is darkening and absorbing too much of the sun's heat.

Environmental | 214 hits | 8:02 PM on Wednesday | posted by kitty

But, says the weatherman, “because we’ve had virtually no snow by end of November it doesn’t mean it will be a quiet and tame winter.”

Environmental | 258 hits | 11:45 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

There, at the genesis of the proposed pipeline, giant machines strip off Canada’s boreal forest — one of the largest carbon sinks in the world — to dig up sludgy bitumen and distill it into oil using a process that and is both energy- and water-intensive.

Environmental | 159 hits | 8:19 AM on Tuesday | posted by QBall

Canada's Conservative environment minister said Monday that signing the Kyoto Protocol on climate change was one of the previous government's biggest "blunders" but he declined to confirm a report that Canada will formally pull out of the treaty.

Environmental | 247 hits | 1:18 AM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

Australia says it will create the world's largest marine reserve in the Coral Sea.

Environmental | 193 hits | 11:30 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

The recent loss of sea ice in the Arctic is greater than any natural variation in the past 1½ millennia, a Canadian study shows.

Environmental | 234 hits | 9:36 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

Warming temperatures in the world's oceans will cause major changes for the fishing industry, according to a study published Sunday involving a University of British Columbia researcher.

Environmental | 199 hits | 11:30 AM on Sunday | posted by wildrosegirl

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Environmental | 343 hits | 7:08 AM on Sunday | posted by EyeBrock

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The Duke of Edinburgh has made a fierce attack on wind farms, describing them as “absolutely useless”.

Environmental | 327 hits | 11:32 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

Manmade islands, booming populations, overfishing and heavy use of fossil fuels have wreaked havoc on the Persian Gulf environment and more should be done to prevent further damage, a Canadian study said Wednesday. Eight Gulf countries — Bahrain, Ku

Environmental | 249 hits | 11:35 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack

The majestic but vulnerable polar bear has been declared a "species of special concern" under Canada's Species at Risk Act.

Environmental | 224 hits | 11:34 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

The severe storm bearing down on Alaska, and bringing with it blizzard conditions and high storm surge, was spotted by a NOAA satellite.

Environmental | 175 hits | 8:04 PM on Monday | posted by Scape

Tokyo Electric Power Co. found a dangerous level of radiation at its wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, eight months after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that caused the worst atomic crisis in 25 years.

Environmental | 367 hits | 4:48 PM on Saturday | posted by Scape

NASA scientists are watching a giant crack forming over a vulnerable Antarctic glacier and they think it will soon break off into an iceberg the size of New ...

Environmental | 186 hits | 11:19 AM on Saturday | posted by Scape

Heavy storms and flooding have battled northwestern Italy leaving seven dead.

Environmental | 215 hits | 11:57 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack

The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world's efforts are at slowing man-made global warming.

Environmental | 212 hits | 8:26 PM on Wednesday | posted by Strutz

The United Nations says humans are more concerned about damage done to the environment than we were 20 years ago — but we're still destroying it faster than we can fix it.

Environmental | 220 hits | 9:46 PM on Monday | posted by Scape

Bay of Plenty residents are being told to be alert amid fresh fears the Rena will break up.

Environmental | 238 hits | 2:35 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

Huge chinook salmon are the most prized catch on the Pacific coast for fishermen on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border, but they may soon have to share the bounty if a scientific panel links chinook and the survival of endangered southern resident kille

Environmental | 198 hits | 11:08 AM on Thursday | posted by QBC

Parks Canada officials have issued a cougar warning in the Sulphur Mountain area after three people were followed by one of the cats and at least...

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