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 VICTORIA — Advocates for a proposed national park in southeastern British Columbia brought in a little help from their friends Wednesday to push for park designation.
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Hint to the public relations people at Syncrude: The next human being who gets hurt at your plant? Best get the corporate jet to fly him to the nearest and best hospital.
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 Cherry and apricot orchards have been particularly devastated, with some growers believing about 90 per cent of their fruit has been killed off or damaged by the deep freeze. The remaining orchards and vineyards growing the grapes, apples and peaches for
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 Icebergs off the coast of Newfoundland are a common sight in the spring, but residents have been treated to a rare spectacle this May, as icebergs have jammed the mouth of a harbour near the city.
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To deal with the competitiveness problem, one proposal is to levy a carbon tariff on imports, set at the equivalent domestic rate. Such a tariff would "level the playing field" by eliminating foreign producers' tax advantage.
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"Carbon capture and storage is a scam. It is the ultimate coal industry pipe dream," said Emily Rochon, climate and energy campaigner at Greenpeace International and author of the report.
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"We would like to educate people and basically give them the other side of the issue, so we send out materials only in hope of a little balance."
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 Federal officials are investigating whether the deaths of 500 ducks at a northern Alberta oilsands plant could be part of a more widespread problem following the discovery of another oil-coated duck — this time farther along the birds' migration route.
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A new study indicates alarmist concern and a need to explain away the lack of actual global warming. Researchers belonging to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, reported in Nature (May 1) that after adjusting their climate model
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 One of Vancouver's top restaurants says it would consider taking wild salmon off its its menu if it proves to be unsustainable
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 FORT McMURRAY - Syncrude has vowed to avoid a repeat of the wildlife incident that killed almost all of the ducks that landed on one of its tailings pond
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 Researchers studying long-term changes in sea temperatures said they now expect a "lull" for up to a decade while natural variations in climate cancel out the increases caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions
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Fingers are being pointed after hundreds of ducks were found dead or dying in a toxic tailings pond belonging to oilsands giant Syncrude Canada Ltd.
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 Hundred of migrating birds are dying after landing on a tailings pond in northern Alberta owned by Syncrude, environment officials confirmed Tuesday.
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 KYIV, Ukraine - Twenty-two years after the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, work is underway on a colossal new shelter to cover the ruins and deadly radioactive contents of the exploded Soviet-era power plant.
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 CALGARY - Alberta will continue to suspend its controversial spring grizzly bear hunt into 2009 amid growing evidence that numbers of the iconic carnivore are significantly lower than earlier estimates.
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Chapman, a geophysicist now living in San Francisco, says in The Australian it is time to prepare ourselves for the possibility of global cooling and another little ice age.
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The highway was closed for about 24 hours from Falcon Lake, Man., to Thunder Bay, Ont., as a snowstorm hammered the area, bringing high winds and up to 20 centimetres of snow.
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The Harper government has rejected a new pledge taken by opposition leaders to endorse a tough international treaty to fight global warming.
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EasyJet said its design—which it dubbed the “easyJet ecoJet”— would be 25 percent quieter and would emit 50 percent less carbon dioxide (CO2) and 75 percent less nitrous oxide (NOx) than today’s newest short-haul airliners.
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 Differences in everything from sea ice to permafrost show the Arctic climate is changing even more rapidly than scientists had predicted, says a new summary of the most recent research.
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 WASHINGTON -- The polar bear has become an icon of global warming vulnerability, but a new study found an Arctic mammal that may be even more at risk to climate change: the narwhal.
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 federal committee has repeated its declaration that the Canadian polar bear is a species "of special concern."
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Earth Day? We don't need one Earth Day, we need 365 of them. Wherever we look, we see the need for urgent, sustained action on many environmental fronts. No government anywhere is doing enough.
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(Fortune Magazine) -- Preventing the destruction of rainforests should be high on the to-do list of anyone worried about global warming. Scientists say burning or destroying forests accounts for at least 20% of global, greenhouse gas emissions.
But wha
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Where is the high profile person, who carries some clout, who is prepared to give the lie to the carbon footprint propagandists?
They continue to expound unproven theories by the bucketful, slavishly reported by all media outlets, creating a seemingly no
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Arctic ice melting 'faster than predicted'
by Paul Eccleston
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 24/04/2008
The melting of the Arctic ice is happening quicker than predicted and may now be close to its 'tipping point' when the changes cannot be reversed,
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 Two British Columbia fault lines running south of Abbotsford and south of Victoria could potentially cause earthquakes measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale, according to a new study released by U.S. seismologists.
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 Rogers says scientists believe that three earthquakes have occurred near that fault over the past 10,000 years. They can't predict when the next quake will occur, but chances are it won't likely be any time soon.
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 Climate change spurred by man-made greenhouse gas emissions has increased precipitation in the North, according to a study to be published Friday.
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