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'Just bag after bag after bag': 40 kg of plastic found in dead whale's stomachEnvironmental | 31 hits | 6:31 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
When a dead whale was discovered on a beach in the Philippines on Saturday, government veterinarians mistook it for a pregnant female because of its swollen belly. What is killing Sable Island's horses'Environmental | 279 hits | 9:31 AM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Researchers are conducting necropsies on Sable Island's unique feral horse population to learn what causes them to die. PM's use of jet for family vacation emitted as much CO2 as average Canadian per year | CTV NewsEnvironmental | 331 hits | 9:39 PM on Saturday | posted by Freakinoldguy
The use of a military jet for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s two-week family vacation on the Aga Khan’s private island pumped about as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as the average emitted per capita in Canada each year. Canadians want to see electric vehicles become mainstream over gasoline, poll findsEnvironmental | 408 hits | 7:26 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
British Columbians lead the country when it comes to wanting more electric cars on the road as opposed to gas vehicles, according to a new poll. Environment is a deadly mess, but 'there is every reason to be hopeful,' UN saysEnvironmental | 391 hits | 6:45 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
The UN's sixth Global Environment Outlook paints a dire picture of a planet where environmental problems interact with each other to make things even more dangerous for people. But it says changes in the way the world eats, buys things, gets its energy an Court documents reveal Monsanto's efforts to fight glyphosate's 'severe stigma'Environmental | 274 hits | 7:31 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
A review by CBC/Radio-Canada of internal Monsanto documents disclosed in a court case last year reveals the many efforts the company took to fight a UN agency assessment that glyphosate, the principal ingredient in its Roundup, was probably carcinogenic t Single-use plastics could be banned in OntarioEnvironmental | 310 hits | 9:04 AM on Sunday | posted by Strutz
Ontario is weighing a ban on single-use plastics as part of a broader strategy to send less waste to landfills. Tiny endangered snails in Banff have their only habitat partly destroyed by swimmerEnvironmental | 294 hits | 5:15 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
The only place in the entire world where this snail is found is in the Sulphur Mountain hot springs. The park wardens are reportedly searching for the swimmerCarbon Dioxide: The Newest Form of Renewable Energy'
Move over wind farms. Step aside acres of solar panels. There’s a new renewable energy source coming down the pike, and it has the potential to put the others out of business.
And, ironically, it’s the climate alarmists’ biggest demon. It’s carbon diox
Environmental | 363 hits | 8:26 AM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Move over wind farms. Step aside acres of solar panels. There’s a new renewable energy source coming down the pike, and it has the potential to put the others out of business.
And, ironically, it’s the climate alarmists’ biggest demon. It’s carbon diox Alberta Energy Regulator suspends fracking well linked to Monday earthquakeEnvironmental | 337 hits | 7:26 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
The Alberta Energy Regulator has ordered a company to suspend fracking operations at a well site linked to an earthquake that was felt in the communities of Red Deer and Sylvan Lake. The last great tree: a majestic relic of Canada's vanishing rainforestEnvironmental | 238 hits | 6:58 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Spared by the loggers’ chainsaws a Douglas fir perhaps 1,000 years old stands in splendid isolation on Vancouver IslandEndangered orangutans 'doomed to extinction' as Chinese-built hydro dam set to rip through habitat
Environmental | 215 hits | 6:50 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Normally ice-bound this time of year, the Bering Sea is mostly open waterEnvironmental | 288 hits | 6:13 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
Open water has replaced sea ice in much of the Bering Sea off Alaska's west coast, leaving villages vulnerable to powerful winter storms and adding challenges for hunters in Alaska seeking marine mammals, an expert said Monday. Huge, rare fish washes ashore in Southern CaliforniaEnvironmental | 248 hits | 7:07 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
A huge, disk-shaped sea creature that washed ashore in Southern California has been identified as a hoodwinker sunfish, a recently identified rare species thought to live in the Southern Hemisphere.California's San Bernardino County slams the brakes on big solar projects
California's largest county has banned the construction of large solar and wind farms on more than 1 million acres of private land, bending to the will of residents who say they don’t want renewable energy projects industrializing their rural desert commu
Environmental | 157 hits | 9:54 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
California's largest county has banned the construction of large solar and wind farms on more than 1 million acres of private land, bending to the will of residents who say they don’t want renewable energy projects industrializing their rural desert commu Renewable energy policies actually workEnvironmental | 206 hits | 6:05 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Countries where emissions dropped push conservation and switching power sources. Study finds Okanagan Lake a ‘surprising source of carbon dioxide’Environmental | 233 hits | 12:41 AM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
New study says carbon dioxide is released during crop irrigation with lake water. Evidence of human role in global warming hits strongest statistical benchmark: studyEnvironmental | 213 hits | 5:16 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
"Humanity cannot afford to ignore such clear signals," the U.S.-led team wrote in the journal Nature Climate Change of satellite measurements of rising temperatures over the past 40 years.Coral Reefs in West Hawaii Showing Signs of Recovery
Nearly four years after the worst bleaching event in the state’s history, coral reefs in West Hawaiʽi are stabilizing and poised to recover, according to scientists from The Nature Conservancy.
Environmental | 166 hits | 2:39 PM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Nearly four years after the worst bleaching event in the state’s history, coral reefs in West Hawaiʽi are stabilizing and poised to recover, according to scientists from The Nature Conservancy.AOC explains why ‘farting cows’ were considered in Green New Deal
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spent plenty of air time explaining "farting cows," as she defended her so-called Green New Deal on the premiere of Showtime’s “Desus & Mero.”
Environmental | 369 hits | 12:41 PM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spent plenty of air time explaining "farting cows," as she defended her so-called Green New Deal on the premiere of Showtime’s “Desus & Mero.” Despite trash complaints, Canada will continue with global recycling programEnvironmental | 244 hits | 6:56 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Canada will not sign on to an amendment to an international treaty that could bar three dozen countries from shipping any kind of garbage, even recyclables, to the developing world. 'It's like a doctor telling you, you have cancer:' Alberta farmers fight a growing battleEnvironmental | 241 hits | 5:50 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
John Guelly is blunt about how tough it was five years ago to be hit with the news that clubroot had found its way into his canola crop. 'You can smell crude in the air':Environmental | 275 hits | 11:47 AM on Saturday | posted by Freakinoldguy
CN Rail is working to clean up an oil leak after nearly 40 train cars carrying crude oil derailed near a western Manitoba village early Saturday morning.Startup will store energy by forcing compressed air in a defunct zinc mine
An energy storage startup called Hydrostor is planning to build an Advanced Compressed Air Energy Storage (A-CAES) project in Australia, using an out-of-operation underground zinc mine as a container for the compressed air.
Environmental | 232 hits | 7:22 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
An energy storage startup called Hydrostor is planning to build an Advanced Compressed Air Energy Storage (A-CAES) project in Australia, using an out-of-operation underground zinc mine as a container for the compressed air.Climate strike: Schoolchildren protest over climate change
Thousands of people gather in London, as students around the UK miss school to call for action.
Environmental | 353 hits | 6:53 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
Thousands of people gather in London, as students around the UK miss school to call for action.Rare black leopard caught on camera
Images of a rare African black leopard have been captured in Kenya, the first verifiable record of the animal for nearly 100 years, researchers said.
Environmental | 248 hits | 5:58 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
Images of a rare African black leopard have been captured in Kenya, the first verifiable record of the animal for nearly 100 years, researchers said. Canada's forests actually emit more carbon than they absorb — despite what you've heard on FacebookEnvironmental | 296 hits | 7:02 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
This country's managed forest land hasn't been a net carbon sink since 2001. That's because trees don't just absorb carbon when they grow, they emit it when they die and decompose, or burn. Alberta's destructive mountain pine beetle likely decimated by cold snapEnvironmental | 286 hits | 6:09 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
A cold snap gripping western Canada may be just brutal enough to put a dent in Alberta’s destructive mountain pine beetle. New solar farm will replace 25 per cent of diesel used in Fort ChipewyanEnvironmental | 445 hits | 7:29 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
A company formed by First Nations and Métis in Fort Chipewyan has announced plans to build a $7.8-million solar farm to reduce the community’s reliance on diesel to generate electricity.'Time bomb' warning on mining dam disasters
The catastrophic collapse of a dam at a mine in Brazil has exposed a darker side of an industry that the world depends on.
Environmental | 483 hits | 11:41 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
The catastrophic collapse of a dam at a mine in Brazil has exposed a darker side of an industry that the world depends on.Wood Instead of Coal: More Foolishness from Radical Environmentalists
A 2012 study by Synapse Energy Economics estimated that the average smokestack of a U.S. biomass plant emitted about 1.67 tons of CO2 per megawatt-hour of electricity generated, or 50 to 85 percent greater than emissions from a coal-fired plant. CO2 emiss
Environmental | 387 hits | 7:04 AM on Thursday | posted by Robair
A 2012 study by Synapse Energy Economics estimated that the average smokestack of a U.S. biomass plant emitted about 1.67 tons of CO2 per megawatt-hour of electricity generated, or 50 to 85 percent greater than emissions from a coal-fired plant. CO2 emissBaby flamingos airlifted from drought-stricken breeding ground in South Africa
Thousands of baby flamingos were airlifted to safety in South Africa, after their breeding ground ran dry due to drought.
Environmental | 307 hits | 7:34 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Thousands of baby flamingos were airlifted to safety in South Africa, after their breeding ground ran dry due to drought. China’s nuclear hiatus may be coming to an endEnvironmental | 255 hits | 5:39 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
Beijing has approved the construction of four new nuclear reactors using a domestically developed design, according to Chinese news reports. If confirmed, the deployment of China’s Hualong One reactor would end a more than two-year hiatus in approvals thaFast food giants under fire on climate and water usage
Investors are calling on KFC, McDonald's and others to cut warming gases from their dairy and meat supply chains.
Environmental | 315 hits | 1:54 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Investors are calling on KFC, McDonald's and others to cut warming gases from their dairy and meat supply chains. Spread of 'zombie' disease killing off starfish linked to rising ocean temperaturesEnvironmental | 387 hits | 6:53 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
Warm waters and infectious disease have been determined as the causes of a die-off of sunflower starfish along the Pacific coast, says a newly released study. The nature of the disease itself still eludes scientists, but one of the research theorize an in Scientists Have Detected an Enormous Cavity Growing Beneath AntarcticaEnvironmental | 449 hits | 12:08 PM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Antarctica is not in a good place. In the space of only decades, the continent has lost trillions of tonnes of ice at alarming rates we can't keep up with, even in places we once thought were safe. Supreme Court rules energy companies cannot abandon old wellsEnvironmental | 391 hits | 6:38 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that energy companies cannot abandon old oil and natural wells in the case of bankruptcy. First Nations, environmental groups sue Ottawa to step up protections of Alberta’s boreal caribouEnvironmental | 194 hits | 10:05 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
First Nations and environmental groups launched legal action Thursday to force the federal government to safeguard critical habitat for boreal woodland caribou in northern Alberta’s oil sands region, urging new protections for an iconic species scientistsGlamorous billionaire dubbed a hypocrite
Gunhild Stordalen, who funds a campaign to save the planet by drastically cutting meat consumption, has been slammed by critics who point out her globetrotting adventures increase air traffic pollution
Environmental | 271 hits | 11:31 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Gunhild Stordalen, who funds a campaign to save the planet by drastically cutting meat consumption, has been slammed by critics who point out her globetrotting adventures increase air traffic pollution Researcher exposes money trail behind U.S.-based campaign to kill the oilsandsEnvironmental | 334 hits | 1:35 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Anyone in Canada who knows anything about the target on the back of Canadian oil and gas knows the name Vivian Krause. Biologists take action to save dwindling caribou populationEnvironmental | 220 hits | 7:33 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Biologists are attempting to round up the remaining animals and breed them.How one heatwave killed 'a third' of a bat species in Australia
Two months ago, a record-breaking heatwave devastated Australia's population of spectacled flying foxes.
Environmental | 163 hits | 9:15 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Two months ago, a record-breaking heatwave devastated Australia's population of spectacled flying foxes. Insect collapse: ‘We are destroying our life support systems’ Environmental | 168 hits | 6:58 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
Scientist Brad Lister returned to Puerto Rican rainforest after 35 years to find 98% of ground insects had vanishedWaste crisis looms as thousands of solar panels reach end of life
Thousands of ageing rooftop solar panels represent a toxic time-bomb and major economic waste unless Australia acts swiftly to keep them out of landfill, conservationists and recyclers say.
Environmental | 241 hits | 12:40 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Thousands of ageing rooftop solar panels represent a toxic time-bomb and major economic waste unless Australia acts swiftly to keep them out of landfill, conservationists and recyclers say. The world's oceans are warming faster than predictedEnvironmental | 188 hits | 12:52 AM on Friday | posted by Hyack
The world's oceans are rising in temperature faster than previously believed as they absorb most of the world's growing climate-changing emissions, scientists said Thursday. Artist devises satirical scheme to 'adopt' Alberta's orphaned wellsEnvironmental | 173 hits | 6:29 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
Alana Bartol is hoping to find caregivers for hundreds of Alberta orphans, but these charges are not children. They are oil wells across the province abandoned by their owners. Syncrude fined $2.75M in deaths of 31 great blue heronsEnvironmental | 141 hits | 6:02 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Syncrude will pay a fine of $2.75 million after pleading guilty federal and provincial charges in relation to the deaths of 31 great blue herons. I visited what's possibly the world's most polluted city, and realized Americans have no idea how good they have itEnvironmental | 148 hits | 9:08 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
I don't think I understood what it was like to live in a truly polluted city until I went to one.
As an American, I'd never really experienced a place choked with smog. New York, my home, is the 21st most polluted city, according to a recent study by E 80% of B.C., Alberta glaciers will disappear in next 50 years: expert Environmental | 399 hits | 9:06 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
Climate change is prompting glaciers in British Columbia, Yukon and Alberta to retreat faster than at any time in history, threatening to raise water levels and create deserts, scientists say.Back to Canada News
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