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Canada’s Winter Olympians to Prime Minister Harper: Show Leadership at UN Climate Summit
Canadian winter Olympians are urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper to protect winter sports by supporting a fair, ambitious and binding agreement at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen. Nineteen members of Canada’s Olympic team took a break fro...
Scientists Target Canada Over Climate Change
Prominent campaigners, politicians and scientists have called for Canada to be suspended from the Commonwealth over its climate change policies. The coalition’s demand came before this weekend’s Commonwealth heads of government ...
Quebec Sets 2020 Greenhouse Gas Emission Targets
The Canadian province of Quebec said on Monday it aims to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, the same target as that set by the European Union. “It is a very ambitious target for the government, given tha...
Weather is Manipulated Again for Snow
Beijing’s unusually heavy snow, which brought a traffic paralysis to the capital yesterday, again highlighted the controversial use of weather modification. The snow fell amid lightning and thunder in the capital late Monday to early yesterday,...
Boreal Forests Store More Carbon than Tropical Forests
When the world thinks of forests and their value to offset global warming, tropical forests come to mind. A report released today shows that the global impact of Canada’s boreal forest, which stores nearly twice as much carbon per hectare...
U.S.-China Clean Energy Announcements
Today, President Barack Obama and President Hu Jintao announced a far-reaching package of measures to strengthen cooperation between the United States and China on clean energy. Please see the attached fact sheets for additional deta...
China Cleans Chemical Spills After Ship Accidents
Chinese workers are trying to clean up dangerous chemicals in the central reaches of the Yangtze river and an oil spill near an eastern Chinese port, after two shipping accidents this weekend. The accidents show the vulnerability of China’s wat...
Bury Our Carbon At Sea
The world’s climate cabal gathers in Copenhagen next month to debate what to do with the 30 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide the human race produces every year by burning fossil fuels. Half of this man-made exhaust is absorbed by oc...
Rising Ocean Levels: Detailed Flood Maps Online
Anyone who has seen An Inconvenient Truth has to be at least vaguely curious if their home will specifically be affected by rising ocean levels. Now mapmaking company Cartifact in partnership with web company Green has just launched an inte...
U.S. Public Still Unconvinced on Climate Change
Fewer U.S. citizens consider climate change to be a “serious threat” compared to two years ago, even as scientific evidence demonstrates that the problem has become increasingly severe, according to a recent nationwide public opinion poll...
China\'s Pollution in Photos
Need I say more… http://www.chinahush.com/2009/10/21/amazing-pictures-pollution-in-china/ ...
US Coal Stands in Way of Copenhagen
It’s not India and China that threaten the success of a new climate change treaty, but senators of coal-producing US states. The UN climate change treaty, signed in 1992, committed the world to avoiding “dangerous anthropogenic inte...
Boreal Forest Gets $10M
The provincial government will set aside $10 million for the boreal forest on the east side of Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba Premier Gary Doer said Tuesday. Four First Nations communities are preparing a bid to secure a World Heritage designation from the ...
8 Worst Man-made Environmental Disasters of All Time
Bhopal. Chernobyl. Love Canal. Seveso. Just a few of the names that have entered the lexicon of devastation wrought by the foolishness of mankind. Ecological travesties afflict the seas: the dead zone at the foot of the Mighty Mississippi, the Exxon ...
Arctic to Be Ice-Free in Summer in 20 Years
Global warming will leave the Arctic Ocean ice-free during the summer within 20 years, raising sea levels and harming wildlife such as seals and polar bears, a leading British polar scientist said on Thursday. Peter Wadhams, professor of ocean physic...
Children Should Be Seen and Heard
Today’s young people have a lot at stake in worldwide climate change negotiations. After all, they’ll inherit either a bleak future if we don’t take action, or a happy planet if we seize the opportunity to develop clean-energy solut...
It's "Now or Never" to Avert Climate Catastrophe
In the 1970s, the environmental movement was regularly criticized for being too negative, and providing too little emphasis on positive solutions. Or, they were simply dismissed as “chicken little” radicals. These early criticisms ushered...
Rumours of Kyoto’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
The Kyoto Protocol is very much alive. But there are some countries who would like to bury it. In fact, despite Environment Minister Jim Prentice’s comments about “turning the page” on Kyoto, the UN Climate Summit in tw...
Ship Strike off BC Coast Confirms First Nation Fears
Kitamaat Chief Councilor says the recent shipping accident confirms the Haisla’s concerns around the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Project. Chief Councilor Dolores Pollard of the Haisla First Nation reacted quickly and strongly t...
Largest Conservation Project in Ontario History
The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) joins with its partners in celebrating the protection of the Wilson Island group near Rossport, Ontario. This $7.4-million binational initiative is the largest (based on dollar value) conservation proj...
Google Earth Launches Climate Simulator
Al Gore stars in promo video for new emissions scenario features developed by Google Earth to coincide with Copenhagen climate conference. Read More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/sep/25/google-earth-climate-change-copenhagen ...
Ozone Layer Depletion Levelling Off
By merging more than a decade of atmospheric data from European satellites, scientists have compiled a homogeneous long-term ozone record that allows them to monitor total ozone trends on a global scale – and the findings look promising. S...
Arctic Ecosystems Changing, May be Irreversible
The dramatic changes sweeping the Arctic as a result of global warming aren’t just confined to melting sea ice and polar bears — a new study finds that the forces of climate change are propagating throughout the frigid north, producing ...
Good for the Garden, Good for the Environment
Now that summer has finally arrived, many of us our heading outside to clean-up, plant and groom our yards so we can show off the efforts of our labor and enjoy some time in the sun. One of the challenges with growing a beautiful garden is maintainin...
An Alternative to Pavement
Have you ever been to the country? Who hasn’t. Thick forests, tall trees, green grass and fresh air. Okay now… the vacation is over and back to the city you go. Back to the grey concrete and paved world so many of ...
Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project - Federal Review Panel
News Release Proposed Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine ProjectPublic Invited to Attend Information Sessions and to Provide Comments OTTAWA – May 8, 2009 - The Secretariat for the federal Panel reviewing the proposed Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine proje...
World's Cleanest Countries
Ever wonder who’s doing there best to save the planet? The cleanest countries are graded based on the Environmental Performance Index (EPI), which was developed by Columbia University’s Center for International Earth Science Information N...
