Sunday, June 18, 2017
Saturday, June 17, 2017
Help preserve land – our 'home and future' – UN urges on World Day to Combat Desertification
The UN News Centre
With hundreds of millions of people around the globe directly affected by desertification – the degradation of land ecosystems due to unsustainable farming or mining practices, or climate change – United Nations agencies have called for better management of land so that it can provide a place where individuals and communities “can build a future.” Story here.
Female elk can learn to avoid hunters with age
EurekAlert
Strategies include moving less, and favouring safer areas when near roads. Story here.
Elk in Jasper Nat'l. Park, Canada.
PinP photo.
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Catastrophe of Aral Sea shows 'men can destroy the planet,' warns UN chief Guterres
UN News Centre
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres paid a recent visit the Aral Sea – once the world's fourth largest inland sea, that has now shrunk to about a quarter of its original size due to human mismanagement Story here.
Changes for Manitoba's hog industry would lower standards (LETTER)
(Brandon Sun,13 June)
It's a funny thing how industries that are in trouble invariably take out full-page ads in the newspapers to proclaim their virtue in search of public approval. Such is the case with Saturday's ad by the Manitoba Pork Council featuring chairman George Mathison.
Chairman Mathison, referring to the "red tape reductions" proposed by the province, emphatically proclaims that "None of the proposed changes will lower environmental standards." Come now, George - that really is a bit of a stretch.
Monday, June 12, 2017
Churchill residents fear skyrocketing costs as flooded rail line closed indefinitely
Winnipeg Free Press
First, the grain shipments shut down, shuttering the Port of Churchill.
Then the blizzards hit, dumping 60 centimetres of snow in just three days last winter and forcing town authorities to call a state of emergency. Story here.
U of M climate change study postponed due to climate change
Winnipeg Free Press
The University of Manitoba's multi-year, multi-million dollar climate change study has been put on ice for a year -- because of climate change itself. Details here.
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