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Oilsands companies should face tough new rules on restoring lands they've exploited and have prices or penalties imposed to control water use
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Environmental experts predicted long-term contamination of the land and sea around Burnaby, B.C., as the cleanup continued Wednesday after almost 240,000 litres of crude oil were spilled into Inlet Drive and Burrard Inlet Tuesday.
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Cleanup continued Tuesday on a major oil spill that has forced residents of a Burnaby, B.C., neighbourhood from at least 50 homes, and raised serious environmental concerns.
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A major oil spill in a residential neighbourhood in Burnaby, B.C., is now spreading to nearby Burrard Inlet
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The world's rainfall patterns are changing, and they are doing so because of human-caused climate change, a new study finds
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After becoming so badly polluted it was labelled a "dead lake" in the 1960s, few would have imagined the waters of Lake Erie would one day be compared to the vibrant hues of the Caribbean.
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Hauling in a 50-kilogram fish might sound like fishing enthusiast's dream come true, but for the protectors of the Great Lakes, it's an alarming doomsday scenario
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There's a new weapon in the battle against the mountain pine beetle: pheromones.
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Climate change could cause more harm to fish stocks — and the coastal communities that depend on them — than excessive harvesting, a globally recognized scientist warns.
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Climate change is threatening to wipe out Ontario's polar bears and unleash new insect-borne diseases across the province as greenhouse gas emissions push temperatures higher
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Greenpeace said Wednesday it was looking for volunteers to parade in the nude on an icy Swiss glacier for an environmental campaign about global warming.
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A massive area of water off the Louisiana coast that is almost devoid of oxygen and unable to sustain marine life is set to get even bigger.
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Two toxicology students from the University of Saskatchewan are about to dig up one of Iqaluit's dirtier secrets — the source of a horrible smell coming from the soil in the city's Lower Base area.
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Canada’s largest cities had the lowest rates of car use and more people using public transit. In all, 83 per cent of households own at least one vehicle.
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Worlds largest Nuclear plant on fire.
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A permafrost expert questioned design changes to the proposed Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline that would cut the number of initial compressor stations from three to one, fearing that having fewer stations could affect permafrost along the valley.
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A new scientific study concludes that changes in the Sun's output cannot be causing modern-day climate change.
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Using the world's oldest recovered DNA, a new study suggests Greenland was much warmer than previously thought during the last Ice Age and natural global warming trends may be as significant as human-induced warming.
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In the budget, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced $1.5 billion over seven years to promote the production of renewable alternatives to gasoline and diesel fuels. The measure was estimated to offer producers an incentive of 10 to 20 cents per litre.
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Almost two years after a caustic soda spill nearly sterilized the Cheakamus River in southern B.C., there's little confidence from the community that a similar disaster could be averted again.
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Ponds in Canada's high Arctic are drying up because of global warming, two researchers say.
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Ontario must do more to investigate whether potentially dangerous chemicals in the water supply coming from everyday shampoos, soaps and pharmaceuticals pose a threat to people's health and the ecosystem
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This year is on track to be the second warmest since records began in the 1860s and floods in Pakistan or a heatwave in Greece may herald worse disruptions in store from global warming, experts said on Friday.
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Starving mountain pine beetles in central British Columbia have moved into spruce trees as the supply of lodgepole pines disappears, scientists report.
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Pamela Anderson wants Finland to "move into the 21st century" and halt fur farming.
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Last summer’s heat wave caused major damage despite some lessons learned from the deadly heat waves that struck Europe in 2003 and Chicago in 1995.
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A lake in southern Chile has mysteriously disappeared, prompting speculation the ground has simply opened up and swallowed it whole.
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China has surpassed the US as the world’s largest producer of carbon dioxide, the most important greenhouse gas.
A worker at the coke furnace in Xian Coking Factory, China, which is to shut because of pollution
Surging demand for energy in the
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Global warming may have a silver lining for Canada, which stands to gain from the earth's raising temperatures, a new Yale University study suggests.
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The federal government has given approval in principle for the underground disposal of nuclear waste
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Jack Daniels water supply is running low and putting the century-plus whiskey business in jeopardy.
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Relentless rainfall is now in its fourth successive day in central Hunan Province, affecting more than one million people in 11 cities and counties, sources with the provincial government said at a flood control meeting on Saturday.
The rain has left t
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Leaders of the Group of Eight club of wealthy nations agreed Thursday on the goal of halving dangerous greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 in a landmark pact against global warming.
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That's right, raise taxes and blame big oil for when the prices go up. Stupid socialists.
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