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How private airports could warm the climate

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The National Observer Cambridge Bay - Nunavut.  Photo -  CambridgeBayWeather The federal government's research on privatizing Canada's major airports appears to be missing something important. Story here.

Scientists find 38 million pieces of trash on Pacific island

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Associated Press When researchers traveled to a tiny, uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, they were astonished to find an estimated 38 million pieces of trash washed up on the beaches. Story here. What's left of an albatross chick (found on another remote island) after  ingesting bottle caps & other plastic debris.  

U.S. blocks major pipeline after leaks and spills

The Washington Post The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has curtailed work on a natural-gas pipeline in Ohio after the owner, Energy Transfer Partners, reported 18 leaks and spilled more than 2 million gallons of drilling materials.  Story here.

Yemen , Where Agents of Good Work Amid Bigots, Disease and Relentless Climate Change. (Opinion)

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by Larry Powell Is the potent "trio" of war,  climate change and religion taking a toll on the world’s most vulnerable? Famine, drought and food insecurity have plagued Yemen, the poorest country in the Arab world, even before the outbreak of open warfare there in 2015. Since then, thousands have died in the conflict. Millions more face famine and imminent death from drought and starvation. Saudi Arabia has been bombing its little neighbour for some time now, in a conflict fed by sectarian hatred. Some of it has to do with which of the warring factions within the country believe in which branch of Islam, Sunni or Shi'ite. (Or which subdivision of which branch.)  As in much of the rest of the world, religion and war are paramount - at the pinnacle of what it apparently means to be "human."  This photo depicts a Yemeni fighter praying (in the 1960s.) Photo by  Dr. Ulrich Middendrop But the World Health Organization (a branch of the UN) says the w

Political History is Written in British Columbia, Canada

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Dear Larry - We just witnessed history. Yesterday’s BC election was a MAJOR breakthrough for Greens. The BC Green Party have re-elected their leader, Andrew Weaver, as well as two new MLAs. Sonia Furstenau has won in Cowichan Valley, and Adam Olsen has won in Saanich North and the Islands.

How Quebec Floods are Linked to Climate Change

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NATIONAL OBSERVER Tri Vo, a resident of Gatineau, Quebec, peered out at the flooded landscape from a back porch door,  barricaded by sandbags and water pumps. Story here. The Montreal suburb of Cartierville. Photo by "Exile on Ontario St."