Canadian Wildlife Service's Ian Stirling reports that global warming is altering ice formation in the Beaufort Sea, resulting in the creation of secure ...
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The Pacific Fishery Management Council has shut down both commercial and sport chinook fisheries off the California and Oregon coastlines as a result ...
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Californians will be paying a surcharge on their monthly power and gas bills that will fund the California Institute for Climate Solutions to the tune ...
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In order to meet its Kyoto Protocol greenhouse-gas-reduction targets, Japan will purchase an additional 100 million tonnes of United Nations-issued ...
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Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are singing the praises of climate-change guru and superdelegate Al Gore on the campaign trail. Gore, who has ...
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Plastic litter on Britain's beaches has increased by 126 percent since 1994, according to a Marine Conservation Society's survey of 354 beaches in ...
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Canadians toss out more than 140,000 tonnes of computer equipment, phones, television, stereos and home appliances every year, most of which contain ...
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ForestEthics, Sierra Club BC and Greenpeace have using a billboard campaign to publicly count down the 12 months remaining for B.C. Premier Gordon ...
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An oil spill in 2005 into Wabamun Lake near Edmonton, Alberta, has resulted in three charges being laid by Environment Canada and Fisheries and Oceans ...
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Despite record snowfall and low temperatures around the world, climate experts forecast that 2008 may rank among the top 10 years since weather records ...
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Ethiopian marathoner Haile Gebrselassie will not participate at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games due to fears that the country's air pollution will trigger ...
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Observers are still scratching their heads at the results of a London-to-Geneva fuel economy test between a diesel-engined mid-sized BMW sedan and ...
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Brazil's Amazon forest continues to experience the same or higher levels of deforestation despite increasing awareness of that the vast forest functions ...
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Brazil's Amazon forest continues to experience the same or higher levels of deforestation despite increasing awareness of that the vast forest functions ...
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Brazil's Amazon forest continues to experience the same or higher levels of deforestation despite increasing awareness of that the vast forest functions ...
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On March 5, the Federal Court of Canada released a judgment finding fatal legal errors in the Federal-Provincial Joint Panel report on the environmental ...
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Canada's 11 largest environmental and conservation organizations have joined forces to address the inaction of politicians on with a groundbreaking ...
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The Commissioner of Environment and Sustainable ...
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New research by Bird Studies Canada has highlighted an alarming drop in insect-eating birds over the last two decades. Species such sand martin, common ...
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says solutions to four major environmental problems — climate change, loss ...
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says solutions to four major environmental problems — climate change, loss ...
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Anti-whaling activist and Sea Shepherd captain Paul Watson alleges shots were fired his way during a clash with Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean ...
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Captain Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society admits that his crew tossed rotten butter onto the decks of the high-tech Japanese whaler ...
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In an initiative being praised by environmentalists, Quebec's provincial government is is planning legislation that would require manufacturers to ...
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In an initiative being praised by environmentalists, Quebec's provincial government is is planning legislation that would require manufacturers to ...
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Sharks are vanishing from the world's oceans as a result of unrestricted fishing and an increased demand for shark fins and meat, according to Julia ...
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A pioneering Chinese environmental group fears that the owners of China's worst-offending factories are simply relocating businesses inland to save ...
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B.C. Finance Minister Carole Taylor wore green to reinforce her latest budget's message. You can have both a strong economy and a healthy environment. ...
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The Golden Gate Bridge, the Sears Tower and the CN Tower, iconic structures all, will have something else in common on March 29. At 8 p.m., they will ...
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An international expedition to map life forms in the Antarctic Ocean and study the impact of climate change on the undersea environment has collected ...
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HP has announced that it salvaged some 143 million kilograms of
post-consumer IT equipment in 2007 through its global Planet Partners
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In late January, HP announced that it had closed the consumer
loop on inkjet cartridges with an engineering breakthrough which
utilizes ...
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Longtime U.K. environmentalist Prince Charles has called for members of the European Union to create financial incentives to fight the massive scale ...
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According to a government report that is being called "the most complete census ever undertaken of tigers in India," India has lost more ...
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Eight-four spoon-billed sandpipers have been spotted at two wetlands along the coast of Myanmar (formerly Burma), a discovery that has inspired researchers ...
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are experimenting with a fabric that would generate power from airflow, footsteps and even heartbeats. ...
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In its Kyoto Report Card 2007, the Sierra Club Canada accuses Ottawa of failing to react to the wishes of the electorate and suggests that provincial ...
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Alaska native and conservation groups have joined forces to protest the U.S. Department of Interior's proposed sale of oil and gas leases in 30 million ...
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U.N. Executive Secretary on climate change Yvo de Boer is calling on India, one of the worst polluters on the planet, to impose clean technology on ...
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U.K. Secretary of State Douglas Alexander has announced that Britain will spend 20 million pounds a year over the next five years researching the possible ...
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Since 1980, some 20 percent of the planet's wetland mangrove forests have been lost, according to a United Nations report released to mark World Wetlands ...
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A report filed by a government-commissioned panel and chaired by energy generator TransAlta Corp. chair Steve Snyder recommends that taxpayers pony ...
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Only 72 percent of Ontario's wine drinkers are bothering to return empties to retrieve their deposits in the Bag-it-Back program launched by Premier ...
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Chemicals known as phthalates, used by the beauty industry to stabilize fragrance and make plastics flexible, appear in a range of personal care products ...
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Canadian doctors are expressing alarm at Health Canada's proposal to "update" regulations overseeing direct-to-consumer advertising. The ...
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Registration has begun for the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to be held in Bonn, Germany from May 12 to 16 this spring. Opening ...
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U.S. taxpayers will be footing the bill to build roads into the pristine roadless areas of Alaska's Tongass National Forest, creating easy access for ...
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This is the International Year of the Reef, and the World Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy and Conservation International are calling on governments, ...
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Scientists at Cambridge University are encouraging further research into the possible link between exposure to persistent organic pollutants and adult ...
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To a chorus of criticism, Stephen Harper's government has decided not to replace retiring national science adviser Arthur Carty, who is leaving his ...
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A press release issued on January 23, 2008, by a group of food safety advocates, American farmers and conservationists didn't make front-page headlines ...
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Through contributions and product sales, eco-friendly personal-care manufacturer Save Your World is partnering with Conservation International to help ...
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With scores over 87, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway and Finland led the top 10 in a new evaluation of environmental performance of countries worldwide ...
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The Sierra Club, the Center for Food Safety and two organic seed groups have filed a lawsuit challenging the USDA's deregulation of a genetically engineered ...
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The critically endangered hawksbill turtle and other marine turtle species have been granted a reprieve by Cuba, which has responded to conservationists ...
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At the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, the executive director of Greenpeace says he is optimistic that international opposition and a growing ...
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Satellite imagery has aided researchers in connecting the dots between deforestation on the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea, and the threat ...
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Currently, more than 1,000 vehicles are joining Beijing's daily traffic jams each day, a rate that is echoed in other cities. Authorities in the Chinese ...
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Warmer winters are enabling the mountain pine beetle to flourish and threaten to spread east, according to researchers. At Genome Alberta and Genome ...
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In the autumn of 2007, corporate giant Clorox purchased Burt's Bees, once a quirky little New England eco-enterprise, for $1 billion. With Tom's of ...
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AllGreen Group, a new media, event and marketplace company with an environmental focus, has launched AllGreen magazine and AllGreen.com to serve as ...
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The U.S. Interior Department's Minerals Management Service plans to open up 29.7 million acres of the Chukchi Sea off the northwest Alaska coast to ...
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In response to a late-December 2007 decision by the U.S. federal government to deny a waiver that would allow California to enforce new automobile ...
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In February, China will begin to systematically assess levels of industrial, agricultural and residential pollution across the country, Zhou Shengxian, ...
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Thomas Edison's illuminating invention, which has served as an icon for inspiration for more than 125 years, will be rendered obsolete by the U.S. ...
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The Center for Biological Diversity has filed a 91-page petition requesting that Alaska's ribbon seals be listed as threatened or endangered because ...
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It may only be a small step, but European Union environment ministers agreed this week to impose carbon-dioxide emissions limits on airlines starting ...
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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is targeting contaminated irrigation water as the source of arsenic entering agriculture. ...
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Shortly after taking office, Australia's new government is planning diplomatic and legal action against Japan's questionable whaling "research." ...
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The Bush administration announced it will deny California a waiver necessary to implement low-emissions automobile legislation. Although 16 other states ...
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