Is Trump softening his position on climate change? Maybe yes! Maybe no!

|NATIONAL OBSERVER

The White House has issued a denial after a Montreal meeting heard some unexpected comments suggesting the U.S. administration was softening its stance on climate change. Story here.

Help the World Wildlife Fund help save our vanishing wildlife

RELATED: PinP reviews the book - "The Sixth Extinction - an unnatural history."

European glyphosate safety report copy-pasted Monsanto study

Nation of Change

"Whether this is a question of negligence or intent, it is completely unacceptable for

government bodies to pass off industry analysis as their own." Story here.

A crop-duster sprays pesticides 

on a crop in Manitoba.  PinP photo.

‘Software disease’ — The hazards of plastic, net wrap and twines

    Canadian Cattlemen

Animal Health: Ingestion of plastics has become a common killer. Story here.

U.S. Air Force Is Spraying 6 Million Acres With Chemicals in Response to Harvey

EcoWatch

The Air Force has dispatched big spray planes to control pests which they claim pose a health risk to rescue workers around Houston. Sadly, those "pests" include the good ones, like bees. Story here.

Living Planet Report Canada - Our Vanishing Wildlife

World Wildlife Fund

                   Burrowing owl.                                  

Great Blue Herron.

Bobolink. (PinP photos.)

The fate of wildlife in Canada is in our hands. WWF -Canada’s Living Planet Report Canada shows that wildlife is on a troubling decline. It’s time to come together and turn things around. Story here.

Unraveling a major cause of sea ice retreat in the Arctic Ocean

ScienceDaily

Quantitative analysis has evidenced the acceleration system of melting ice: dark water surfaces absorb more heat than white ice surfaces, thus melting ice and making more water surfaces in the Arctic Ocean. Details here.