Saturday, July 24, 2010

Canadian Researchers Solve Monarch Migration Mystery

By: Dominique Jarry-Shore, The Canadian Press - 24/07/2010

TORONTO - A new Canadian study...

Monarch cluster, courtesy

What Those Who Killed the Tar Sands Report Don't Want You to Know

By Andrew Nikiforuk, 15 Jul 2010, TheTyee.ca

Why did a parliamentary committee suddenly....


Open pit bitumen mine

courtesy Beautiful Destruction.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Groups Seeking Ban on Toxic Pesticide Go to US Federal Court

NEW YORK - July 22 - CommonDreams.org
Outlawed in homes and gardens, pesticide is still sprayed on food crops
Crop-duster photo by l.p.
EDITOR'S NOTE: In case you think chlorpyrfos (Lorsban) is a problem only in the US, think again! It is used extensively on grain crops on the Canadian prairies and made a Swan Valley family very sick a few years ago. Read their story here. "Family Believes it was Poisoned by Crop Spray " l.p. Why no lawsuit here?

Glacial Melt and Ocean Warming Drive Sea Level Upward

John Mulrow and Alexander Ochs, with Shakuntala Makhijani - Worldwatch Institute - Jul 22, '10
The average sea level...

Peter Hollinger
photo

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

British Meat and Dairy Are Destroying Rainforests

By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent - 20 Jul 2010 Telegraph.co.uk

Huge swaths of rainforest…
British dairy herd,
courtesy of Superstock

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

BP Oil Poisons the Gulf of Mexico's Food Chain

By Dahr Jamail* NEW ORLEANS, United States, Jul 20, 2010 (IPS/IFEJ) - Shellfish in…
(AFP/Getty Images/
File/Sean Gardner)

Cattle Die in Kansas heat

Manitoba Co-Operator - staff - 7/19/2010

Cattle prices on...

Science Matters: Protecting the Planet is a Sacred and Scientific Duty

Jul 7th, 2010 - David Suzuki with Faisal Moola
Cloud formation.
l.p. photo

Monday, July 19, 2010

The Killing Fields of Multinational Corporations

Jul 14th, 2010 -- Vandana Shiva - The Asian Age

The Bhopal gas tragedy was...

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Global Warming Slowly Kills Red Sea Coral

ScienceDaily (July 16, 2010) — In a pioneering...
Photo courtesy
of Google Images

So you think Canada's current cold snap means "global warming" is over? Well...think again!

CBC News. Extreme cold and climate change: What's the deal? Why are we breaking Canadian records amid record global heat? Click here.