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Environmental | 27 hits | 10:18 AM on Thursday | posted by Strutz

Wildfires in B.C.'s Okanagan Valley have forced the evacuation of dozens of properties and temporarily closed the main highway through the region on Wednesday.

Environmental | 40 hits | 1:00 PM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Villagers slaughter the reptiles at a sanctuary in revenge for one of them killing a local.

Environmental | 54 hits | 5:47 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

An exhaustive federal study of Canada's largest national park concludes almost every aspect of its environment is deteriorating.

Environmental | 98 hits | 7:04 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

Innaarsuit, an island community in northwestern Greenland, is on standby for evacuation because a giant iceberg is looming over it.

Environmental | 44 hits | 10:48 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

Campaigners say that what appears to be a rare blue whale has been killed by Icelandic whalers.

Environmental | 56 hits | 7:08 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

All was quiet on June 22 as Canadian scientists David and Denise Holland settled in for the night off Greenland’s Helheim Glacier. But within minutes, five to eight billion tons of ice had broken off into the water.

Environmental | 39 hits | 7:20 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

The MV Sun Sea carried nearly 500 Tamil migrants to Canada eight years ago, but now the rusting cargo ship sits forlornly on the B.C. coast — an unwanted vessel of toxins including asbestos, PCBs and mould, documents reveal.

Environmental | 62 hits | 7:09 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

Researchers from Belgium turned to archived television footage and watched as, over the years, trees began to bloom earlier in response to a warming climate in the region. That timing can have a trickle-down effect that affects other plants and species.

Environmental | 45 hits | 9:03 AM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog

An environmental pressure group claimed Monday that Chinese factories are illegally using ozone-depleting CFCs, which have recently seen a spike in emissions that has baffled scientists.

Environmental | 91 hits | 6:16 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

In a letter to the U.S. State Department, Americans on the International Joint Commission say Canadian members are withholding information on contaminants in the Kootenai River drainage

Environmental | 129 hits | 6:13 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

A banned chemical used to make household insulation is implicated in damage to the ozone layer.

Environmental | 106 hits | 8:06 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

Iraq has banned its farmers from planting summer crops this year as the country grapples with a crippling water shortage that shows few signs of abating.

Environmental | 109 hits | 9:36 AM on Tuesday | posted by Robair

After an area more than twice the size of P.E.I. burned in last year's record-breaking forest fires in B.C., scientists and loggers are back in the woods facing some unpleasant realities.

Environmental | 129 hits | 5:55 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

The federal government is putting up $27.5 million over the next five years for Canada's biggest national park after concerns about its status as a world heritage site.

Environmental | 149 hits | 7:27 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Mi'kmaq chiefs from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are voicing concerns after a mechanical failure on a BP Canada drilling rig resulted in 136,000 litres of synthetic-based "drilling mud" being spilled into waters off the coast of Nova Scotia.

Environmental | 66 hits | 6:44 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Many of the threats we know are associated with climate change are slow moving. Gradually rising seas, a steady uptick in extreme weather events, and more all mean that change will come gradually to much of the globe. But we also recognize that there can

Environmental | 162 hits | 10:55 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

An Arctic fox generally isn't part of a crab fishing boat's bycatch, but one crew from southern Labrador managed just that last week.

Environmental | 69 hits | 10:54 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

A freight train from Alberta derailed in northwest Iowa on Friday, leaking crude oil into flooded fields flanking the tracks and raising concerns about the possible contamination of residential water supplies downstream, officials say.

Environmental | 81 hits | 3:18 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack

Transportation Minister Marc Garneau announced measures to help in the protection of the southern resident killer whale, the North Atlantic right whale and the St. Lawrence Estuary beluga.

Environmental | 213 hits | 12:54 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog

As supplies of carbon dioxide run low, the food and drink industry asks the government to take "urgent action".

Environmental | 106 hits | 7:19 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

Earlier this year, China stopped taking much of the world's recyclable plastic waste. Now a new study suggests that by the year 2030, an estimated 111 million tonnes of plastic waste will be "displaced" as a result of the policy.

Environmental | 153 hits | 7:15 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

Chemicals that were used to make non-stick pans and fire-suppressing foam are no longer part of U.S. manufacturing process, but water sampling has found contamination.

Environmental | 95 hits | 5:23 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

Critically endangered eels hyped up on cocaine could have trouble making a 3,700-mile trip to mate and reproduce—new research warns

Environmental | 70 hits | 12:03 AM on Thursday | posted by Hyack

For the third time this decade, one of the world’s rarest whales has been spotted off the B.C. coast, but scientists say it’s too early to say if the species is recovering from being hunted to near-extinction.

Environmental | 99 hits | 4:24 PM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Germany will likely miss its goal of cutting emissions by 40 percent by 2020, the country's environment minister said Monday, an embarrassing admission for a government that wants to lead the charge on limiting climate change.

Environmental | 106 hits | 12:17 AM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Just as with the free trade election of 1988, we could be set up for a single-issue tilt that settles the question of the day once and for all

Environmental | 111 hits | 11:23 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

On a record hot June day 30 years ago, NASA'S chief climate scientist warned that global warming was here and worsening. Today, he wishes his words had been heeded and more action had been taken.

Environmental | 126 hits | 6:30 PM on Thursday | posted by BeaverFever

The wheat, discovered near a rural road after it survived herbicide spraying, has not been approved for commercial use, said David Bailey, director of CFIA’s plant production division.

Environmental | 132 hits | 6:11 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb

A comprehensive study suggests the Antarctic ice sheet lost roughly three trillion tons of ice between 1992 and 2017. The study, published today in Nature, found that annual ice loss in West Antarctica — the most vulnerable to warming temperatures — wa

Environmental | 138 hits | 5:24 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

Nests, dens, burrows in Kootenay Boundary not to be disturbed, with rules set to expand across province. Foresters and ranchers in B.C.'s Kootenay Boundary region will have to follow a new set of rules to ensure birds' nests, animal dens, mineral licks, b

Environmental | 287 hits | 9:07 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Locals complain of "mountains of rubbish" after 83 shipping containers slipped overboard at sea.

Environmental | 173 hits | 12:41 AM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog

The new indoor water standard would be 55 gallons of water per person, per day by 2022, and that would fall to 50 gallons by 2030.

Environmental | 125 hits | 7:23 AM on Saturday | posted by DrCaleb

Even though recycling entrepreneur Eric Lundgren pleaded guilty in a court battle over computer discs, he thinks his sentence will raise awareness about e-waste.

Environmental | 224 hits | 4:36 PM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Sask. will lose $62M in funding if it does not sign by Feb. 28

Environmental | 131 hits | 11:24 AM on Wednesday | posted by Freakinoldguy

Landmark ruling could cause traffic chaos and dramatically hit the value of diesel vehicles

Environmental | 212 hits | 12:52 AM on Tuesday | posted by BeaverFever

An extraordinary heat wave pushed temperatures at the northernmost tip of Greenland was as high as 6.1 C this weekend. And the sun won’t rise for weeks.

Environmental | 237 hits | 9:01 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

Scientists say they haven't spotted a single North Atlantic right whale calf in their usual breeding grounds, raising even greater concern over the fate of the endangered mammal.

Environmental | 447 hits | 12:11 AM on Monday | posted by Hyack

Officials with the Department of National Defence say one of its vessels in the Strait of Georgia — HMCS Calgary — spilled 30,000 litres of fuel on Saturday morning.

Environmental | 436 hits | 9:10 AM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog

Delays in installation. Complaints of broken machines and bad customer service.Two years after Ontario’s Liberal government introduced a province-wide program to expand electric vehicle use, the program is being called “a screw-up&

Environmental | 312 hits | 7:20 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

Serious accidents involving both rail and pipeline transport of dangerous substances like crude oil and gas increased in 2017 over the previous year, according to statistics compiled by the Transportation Safety Board.

Environmental | 409 hits | 6:42 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

But it's not just a dream, say Enerkem officials. It's a careful, step-by-step world first accomplishment that can easily afford to be a few years behind.

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Environmental | 1931 hits | 8:58 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

Syncrude celebrates 25 years of its bison ranch at its oilsands operation north of Fort McMurray. Syncrude introduced 30 bison from Elk Island National Park outside Edmonton to Mildred Lake, north of Fort McMurray, in 1993. The herd has now grown to 300.

Environmental | 157 hits | 8:12 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

Quebec has announced new restrictions on pesticides that many say have been destroying honeybees. But farmers say the new rules will make it even harder to them to protect their crops, and their livelihoods.

Environmental | 164 hits | 8:03 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

An invasive species with a jarring name has turned up in Lake Superior: the bloody red shrimp. Researchers found a single specimen of the tiny shrimp in a sample collected from the Duluth-Superior harbour last summer as part of routine surveillance for in

Environmental | 358 hits | 6:22 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

A new study sheds light on the magnitude of microplastic pollution in our oceans. The study, published today in open-access journal Frontiers in Marine Science, found microplastics in the stomachs of nearly three out of every four mesopelagic fish caught

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Environmental | 3270 hits | 5:13 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb

Syncrude celebrates 25 years of its bison ranch at its oilsands operation north of Fort McMurray.

Environmental | 438 hits | 7:57 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

A 360-kilogram leatherback turtle carcass that washed up near shore in Islandview, Cape Breton, in Nova Scotia, is now on its way to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans lab in Charlottetown for analysis.

Environmental | 431 hits | 5:51 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb

The Supreme Court of Canada will hear a case this week that could determine whether industrial sites across the country are cleaned up when a company goes bankrupt.

Environmental | 253 hits | 7:15 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb

Officials here say it's unclear how long Phragmites australis has been in the province, but they've pinpointed more than a dozen small stands within an area stretching from the southern grasslands to the Peace Region.

Environmental | 455 hits | 9:07 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb

More than 500 scientists are sending a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today, asking him to seriously consider making changes to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act that would put the onus on companies to show their products are safe before

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