Ottawa Seeks Emergency Cleanup of Abandoned Northern Mine

CTV News

YELLOWKNIFE -- Federal officials are scrambling to clean up a crumbling, abandoned northern gold mine that is in imminent danger of releasing massive amounts of arsenic, asbestos and other toxins. Details here.

Arsenic Kills Thousands of Sri Lankans While Health Ministry Slumbers

The Sunday Leader - an English-language, Sri Lankan newspaper.

Although the Health Ministry denies that the Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) slowly killing thousands in the North Central, Eastern, Wayamba, Ruhuna and Uva Provinces is due to pesticides and fertilisers containing arsenic being used for agriculture, studies now confirm that the use of fertilizer has contaminated…Details here.

New Research Tracks 11,300 Years of Climate

Winnipeg Free Press

Scientists have a good sense of what the Earth’s climate has been like over the past handful of centuries. But what about many thousands of years back? Details here.

Great Lakes Experiencing 'New Stresses'

CBC Radio

Pharmaceutical waste, fertilizers and climate change all new threats to fresh water. Full story here.

UK Set to Scupper Ban on Pesticides Linked to Bee Harm

theguardian

Environment secretary not expected to support proposal despite poll showing almost three-quarters of the UK public wants ban. Details here.

Bumble bees on chives. PLT photo

It's Just Horse, of Course. But Don't Lie About It!

Laura Rance - Winnipeg Free Press

It doesn't matter how you dice it, the discovery of horsemeat in European meat products raises some awkward questions for the global meat industry. Details here.

PLT photo

Dead-Pig Tide Shows China Learned Little From SARs

Winnipeg Free Press

The dead pigs started appearing on the riverbanks of Shanghai’s iconic Huangpu River on March 4, and by the weekend, state media were reporting that 900 had been found floating in the river, the source of much of the city’s water supply. Details here.