Coal power stations disrupt rainfall, global study finds

PHYS ORG

A coal-fired power plant in Poland. Photo by Petr Stefek.

Modern coal-fired power stations produce more ultrafine dust particles than road traffic and can even modify and redistribute rainfall patterns, a new 15-year international study shows. Story here.

Fatal horizon, driven by acidification, closes in on marine organisms in Southern Ocean

PHYS ORG

A tiny sea creature at the California Academy of Sciences. Photo by Brian Skipworth

Marine microorganisms in the Southern Ocean may find themselves in a deadly vise grip by century's end as ocean acidification creates a shallower horizon for life, new University of Colorado Boulder research finds. More here.

A tiny sea creature at the California Academy of Sciences.

Photo by Brian Skipworth

The Roundup row: is the world’s most popular weedkiller carcinogenic?

The Guardian

Producer Monsanto is facing thousands of lawsuits from customers who now have cancer. But not all experts are convinced of a link…Story here.

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But not all suspicions about Roundup are confined to its effects on humans. What about food crops and livestock? Watch my video, below and decide for yourself!

RELATED:  "Field of Nightmares: Ottawa promotes the use of Roundup by Canadian Farmers, Letting Corporate Seduction Trump Scientific Evidence."

Green Party of Manitoba opposes "frack" sand operation

Green Party of Manitoba.

A Green Party of Manitoba Environment Advocate Dave Nickarz has sent a letter to Minister squire in opposition to the proposed Wanipigow Sand Extraction Project. For a copy of that letter, click here.

RELATED: "Peace camp set up in Manitoba's Hollow Water First Nation to oppose sand mine project."

Australia's marine heatwaves provide a glimpse of the new ecological order

The Guardian

An ocean under human siege.
A Pexels photo.

Receding kelp forests, jellyfish blooms and disruption to fisheries are just some of climate change’s impacts on the ocean. Story here.

The last great tree: a majestic relic of Canada's vanishing rainforest

The

Guardian

Spared by the loggers’ chainsaws, a Douglas fir perhaps 1,000 years old stands in splendid isolation on Vancouver Island. Story here.

Oceans that are warming due to climate change yield fewer fish

Science News

A Wikimedia photo.

Some areas have seen up to a 35 percent decline in how many fish can be harvested sustainably.  Story here.