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Made-in-Manitoba carbon tax falls short, says Arctic climate change expert

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CBC news Sea-ice researcher David Barber argues provincial $25-per-tonne tax a good start but not aggressive enough. Story here. The flooded rail line to Churchill.  Photo by Omnitrax.

More alarm bells sound over drug usage in the world's intensive livestock operations. Will Manitoba listen?

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by Larry Powell writes from  SHOAL LAKE, MANITOBA. The World Health Organization is  ramping up its warnings  about the health risks of giving antibiotics to animals raised in intensive livestock operations (ILOs) everywhere.  In   an announcement in Geneva this week ,   the UN agency had some straight talk for the world’s food industry and animal farmers in the form of several formal recommendations: •                Stop giving antibiotics to food animals altogether  if it’s just to speed their growth - or prevent disease .  A CanStock photo image. •                Don’t give   them to healthy animals unless disease has already been diagnosed in another part of the same herd. •                Cut back on the amount of antibiotics given to animals for any reason.  •                And even when animals become sick, o nly give them antibiotics not considered critically important in the treatment of human infections . (Drugs used in

Why Did Trump Release a Report Confirming Climate Change Is Real?

EcoWatch Last Friday, the White House stunned many after it released a sweeping  report  concluding that  climate change  is not only real, but it also poses as a major threat to the U.S. and humans are "extremely likely" to be responsible. Details here.

Newly discovered orangutan species is also the most endangered

nature The first new species of great ape described in more than eight decades faces threats to its habitat. Story here.

Julie Payette dares to be interesting with comments on climate, astrology, and divine intervention

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CBC news The governor general speaks up for science over certain beliefs. Story here.

Trump administration releases report finding ‘no convincing alternative explanation’ for climate change

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The Washington Post The Trump administration released a  dire scientific report  Friday calling human activity the dominant driver of global warming, a conclusion at odds with White House decisions to withdraw from a key international climate accord, champion fossil fuels and reverse Obama-era climate policies.  Story here. Another disastrous wildfire season in Portugal.  Wikimedia Commons.

Ancient storms could have hurled huge boulders, scientists say – raising new fears of rising seas

The Washington Post Atop a jagged, 50-foot-high cliff on the Bahamian island of Eleuthera sit two enormous boulders known as “The Cow and the Bull.” Each is several… Details here.

We need to talk more about Storm Ophelia

New Internationalist Ireland has had its wettest winter and its stormiest winter in 150 years, but will miss its 2020 emissions targets. We are not learning our lesson fast enough, says Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik. Story here.

Lancet Study Warns of Global Health Crisis and 1 Billion Climate Refugees by 2050

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CommonDreams "We are only just beginning to feel the impacts of climate change."  Story here. Waves crash against the International Airport of Nauro,  a small Pacific island country. Photo - Matt Robertson 

Global atmospheric CO2 levels hit record high

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the guardian UN warns that drastic action is needed to meet climate targets set in the Paris agreement . Story here. HIghway construction in Canada.  PinP photo.

Rooting Out Democracy

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George Monbiot The Sheffield tree massacre is one result of the monstrous, impenetrable officialdom that neoliberalism creates. Story here.   H Here in Canada, trees are also treated as a nuisance, to be gotten rid of. They rarely win the battle when "Big Ag" decides they have to go. Just watch the video, below, to see what we mean. PinP