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U.S. to compensate B.C. fishermen under latest pact to protect salmon

Environmental | 17 hits | 10:06 AM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack

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The U.S. government will hand over millions of dollars to compensate the B.C. fishing industry for dramatic cuts to salmon fisheries.

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Mr. Gore: Apology Accepted

Environmental | 158 hits | 5:53 AM on Sunday | posted by stemmer

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Sewer cracks raise fears of 'catastrophic event'

Environmental | 129 hits | 9:00 PM on Thursday | posted by mtbr

"The alarm bells have gone off for the City of Toronto. If this pipe collapses, we would have a catastrophic event on our hands. Because you have more water going through that sewer pipe than is in the Don River."

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New year rings in nasty weather for Canadians

Environmental | 40 hits | 9:53 AM on Thursday | posted by tritium

Snow, strong winds and bitterly cold temperatures are giving Canadians a good reason to spend New Year's Day indoors.

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N.B.'s endangered bald eagle population taking flight

Environmental | 34 hits | 10:13 AM on Monday | posted by Hyack

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New Brunswick's endangered bald eagle population is soaring to heights unseen in decades, new estimates from the Department of Natural Resources show.

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Cooling the warming hysteria

Environmental | 62 hits | 8:29 AM on Monday | posted by mtbr

Someday, more media may realize you can't cherry pick information to fit the alarmist agenda, which most media subscribe to, and ignore everything else. But don't hold your breath.

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Environmental headlines: Is the world falling apart?

Environmental | 32 hits | 11:08 AM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

The environment was top of mind for much of this year, with mostly gloom and doom science stories about everything from shrinking ice at the poles, to the ever-expanding hole in the ozone layer making headlines around the world and causing us to wonder wh

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Activists throw rotten butter at Japanese whalers

Environmental | 44 hits | 12:04 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack

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SYDNEY, Australia - A radical conservationist group said it lobbed 25 bottles of rotten butter at Japanese whalers in the remote and icy Antarctic Ocean.

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Coalbed methane project in B.C. has American conservationists concerned

Environmental | 79 hits | 8:41 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack

VANCOUVER, B.C. - American conservation groups are adding their voices to concerns over a coalbed methane project in the southeast region of B.C.

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Indonesian reefs bouncing back after tsunami

Environmental | 28 hits | 1:46 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack

Indonesian reefs once thought to be devastated because of the 2006 tsunami have come back much more quickly than expected, scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society said Friday.

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Will Canada see its first white Christmas since '71?

Environmental | 62 hits | 8:03 PM on Sunday | posted by mtbr

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Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips told CTV Newsnet that "it looks like a very good chance" it will be a white Christmas for all parts of Canada for the first time since 1971.

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Changes 'amplify Arctic warming'

Environmental | 72 hits | 12:25 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack

Scientists say they now have unambiguous evidence that the warming in the Arctic is accelerating.

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The big chill: Western Canada remains in deep freeze

Environmental | 44 hits | 9:09 AM on Tuesday | posted by TattoodGirl

Temperatures averaging -30 C are 10 to 20 degrees below normal

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'Embarrassing' to be a Canadian at climate talks: Green party leader

Environmental | 109 hits | 3:11 PM on Saturday | posted by Eisensapper

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Oilsands companies working on plan to release wastewater into Athabasca

Environmental | 59 hits | 7:15 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack

Alberta's resources industry is researching ways to treat toxic wastewater from oilsands production so it is safe enough to pump back into the Athabasca River, according to senior managers from major companies and a chief industry scientist.

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Car-free Sundays proposed for some Vancouver streets

Environmental | 48 hits | 4:18 PM on Thursday | posted by TattoodGirl

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A few busy Vancouver streets could be car-free every Sunday this summer if a new Vancouver councillor gets her way

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Saskatchewan's a potential spud powerhouse, scientist says

Environmental | 56 hits | 9:45 AM on Thursday | posted by bootlegga

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Saskatchewan produces just a tiny percentage of Canada's potatoes, but that could change in the future due to global warming, a University of Saskatchewan scientist says. Horticulturist Doug Waterer said small increases in the temperature could turn th

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Where have all the acorns gone?

Environmental | 49 hits | 5:31 AM on Thursday | posted by kitty

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In a wooded area of Mount Pleasant Cemetery where nature is left untamed, Jack Radecki scours the leafy forest floor searching for acorns from white oak trees. He finds not one.

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Global warming may kill coral reefs within 40 years

Environmental | 34 hits | 9:21 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack

POZNAN, Poland -- The world has lost nearly one-fifth of its coral reefs and much of the rest could be destroyed by increasingly acidic seas if climate change continues unchecked, an environmental group warned Wednesday.

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Billions of litres of tainted oilsands water leaking: Report

Environmental | 115 hits | 8:58 AM on Tuesday | posted by WDHIII

OTTAWA - Oilsands production is releasing four billion litres of contaminated water into Alberta's groundwater and natural ecosystems every year, according to a new national report that was immediately dismissed as "false" by the provincial government.

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Native hunters: Climate is thinning caribou herds

Environmental | 47 hits | 4:21 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

POZNAN, Poland -- Chief Bill Erasmus of the Dene nation in northern Canada brought a stark warning about the climate crisis: The once abundant herds of caribou are dwindling, rivers are running lower and the ice is too thin to hunt on.

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Arctic to see first ice-free summer in 2015

Environmental | 87 hits | 3:29 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack

WINNIPEG - The ice that has covered the Arctic basin for a million years will be gone in little more than six years because of global warming, a University of Manitoba geoscientist said.

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Conservation group sues for walrus protection

Environmental | 32 hits | 8:46 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A conservation group is going to court to force the federal government to consider adding the Pacific walrus to the list of threatened species.

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Get real when picking the greenest Christmas trees

Environmental | 52 hits | 8:17 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack

It's time to deck the halls, and for many families that means picking out, cutting down, or assembling a Christmas tree.

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Avian cholera threatens Arctic eider duck colonies: scientists

Environmental | 46 hits | 11:15 AM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack

Canadian scientists say they fear avian cholera could put the future of some eider duck colonies in the Arctic in jeopardy.

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BC birds at risk: populations plummet

Environmental | 52 hits | 10:29 AM on Tuesday | posted by mtbr

The renowned authority on B.C. birds stands on the shores of the Fraser River estuary in Ladner and speaks of a troubling downward trend in avian populations worldwide. B.C. is no exception.

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Oilsands killing birds, habitat: report

Environmental | 68 hits | 10:17 AM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

Canada's massive oilsands projects are cutting a deadly swath through one of the most valuable avian nurseries left on the planet, wiping out habitat and nesting areas used by millions of birds each year, a new report says.

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Narwhal cull approaches 600 near Pond Inlet

Environmental | 42 hits | 6:49 PM on Monday | posted by Hyack

Hunters in the Baffin Island community of Pond Inlet continue to cull hundreds of narwhals trapped in the sea ice near their community, as the total number of harvested whales reached 575 over the weekend.

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Survey suggests another caribou herd in steep decline

Environmental | 38 hits | 12:19 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

A new study of one of Canada's largest caribou herds seems to confirm fears that it is undergoing a steep and mysterious decline.

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Greenhouse gases will heat up planet 'for ever'

Environmental | 78 hits | 11:32 AM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

Global warming is for ever, some of the world's top climate scientists have concluded. Their research shows that carbon dioxide emitted from today's homes, cars and factories will continue to heat up the planet for hundreds of thousands of years.

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Kyoto's shape shifters

Environmental | 39 hits | 7:28 AM on Sunday | posted by mtbr

It's time to come up with a new name for the relative few still advocating for the Kyoto accord in a time of global economic meltdown.

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Acid rain killing creatures in Canada's lakes

Environmental | 109 hits | 2:35 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack

OTTAWA -- Acid rain, one of the biggest environmental scourges of recent decades, has sapped the calcium from lakes across the Canadian Shield, slowly wiping out tiny creatures that need high doses of the nutrient to survive, new research shows.

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Prentice to hold round table on polar bear conservation in January

Environmental | 78 hits | 7:07 PM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack

Federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice will hold a national round table on the protection of polar bears early in the new year.

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