Fungus threatens Brazilian farms

AgroNews

Asian rust in soybeans. USDA.

Brazil has become the world’s largest market for fungicides. Story here.

A deadly fungus is infecting snake species seemingly at random, new study shows.

ScienceNews

Any species in the eastern or midwestern United States could potentially be at risk. Story here.

A mating ball of garter snakes.
Oregon State University. Will
they be next?

It will be months before Canada can restore a critical pollution monitoring site

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Canada has chosen an alternate site for a critical air pollution research station that was shuttered in June, but almost a year will have passed before it's operational again. Story here.

Carbon Loophole: Why Is Wood Burning Counted as Green Energy?

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A loophole in carbon-accounting rules is spurring a boom in burning wood pellets in European power plants. The result has been a surge in logging, particularly in the U.S. South, and new doubts about whether Europe can meet its commitments under the Paris accord. Story here.

PinP photo

 PinP photo.

B.C. government announces end of grizzly hunt

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The British Columbia government announced on Monday it was ending the trophy hunt of grizzly bears throughout the province. Story here.



Grizzlies in Yellowstone Park.Chris Servheen/USFWS

Rationale for Site C ‘Utter Nonsense,’ Says Former Hydro CEO

The Tyee

Province had ability to cancel project without cutting services, argues Eliesen. Story here.

Houses built too close to bush spread huge California fires on 'front line of climate change'

CBCnews

California wildfires from the International Space Station. NASA/Randy Bresnik
State's 'new normal' is a fire season 70 days longer than just 15 years ago. Story here.

While America Focuses on Tax Bill, Congress Quietly Tries to Open Arctic Refuge to Oil Drilling

EcoWatch

The U.S. Senate has passed a Republican tax-reform package that contains a provision to authorize oil drilling on the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, placing the biological heart of one of our last pristine, untouched places in severe peril. Story here.

Barrenground caribou, Nunavut. 

Ansgar Walk photo.

RELATED: Proposed oil development threatens yet another caribou herd.

In 10 years, the world may not be able to feed itself

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Combines in a wheat field in Manitoba, Canada. PinP photo.

By 2027 the world could be facing a 214 trillion calorie deficit, says Sara Menker, founder of an agricultural data technology company. In other words, in just a decade, we won’t have enough food to feed the planet. More here.

Fracking linked to low birth weight in Pennsylvania babies

ScienceNews

Study of birth records finds association between infant health and mom’s proximity to production sites. Story here.

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Expert reaction to research on Hurricane Harvey and links to climate change

Science Media Centre

A new study, published in Environmental Research Letters, reported that human-caused climate change made the record rainfall that fell over Houston during Hurricane Harvey roughly three times more likely and 15% more intense. Story here.

Hurricane Harvey. 

 Photo by urban.houstonian