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‘You can’t drink money’: Kootenay communities fight logging to protect their drinking water

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The Narwhal In Glade, BC, where clear-cutting could begin any day, determined residents are pulling out all the stops in an effort to protect their local creek — even though a judge ruled they have no right to clean water. Story here. The south end of Kootenay Lk. Photo by Shawn from Airdrie, Canada.

Modern Climate Change Is the Only Worldwide Warming Event of the Past 2,000 Years

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Smithsonian.com New research finds that previous periods of warming and cooling driven by natural causes were regional shifts in temperature rather than global events. Story here. A grey heron suffers during a heatwave - 2013. Photo by Gail Hampshire   from Cradley, Malvern, U.K

The smell, the noise, the dust: my neighbour, the factory farm

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The Guardian Industrial farms are spreading across Europe. Greenpeace campaigners went to talk to the people who live close by.Warning: readers may find some of the images upsetting. Story here. Dead hogs in a dumpster at a Manitoba factory barn, awaiting removal to an unknown location. A PinP photo. Please also read - "In Hogs We Trust."   A critique of Manitoba’s runaway hog industry. Part 1 - Antibiotic Overuse. Part 11 - The price we pay for corporate pig$. Part 111 - From Malaysia to Manitoba - the global magnitude of livestock diseases. Part 1V - The health and environmental costs of an expanded hog industry. Part V - What’s behind Manitoba’s drive to expand?  

Climate change risks for northern Canada (CBC Video)

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Arctic amplification, sea ice, jet stream, polar vortexes...(video)

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Canada's high school curricula not giving students full picture of climate change

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by University of British Columbia A Pexels photo. Canada's high school students may not be getting enough information on the negative impacts of climate change, scientific consensus behind human-caused warming or climate solutions, according to new research from the University of British Columbia and Lund University. Story here.

How Airplane Contrails Are Helping Make the Planet Warmer

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Yale ENVIRONMENT 360 Contrails over Manitoba. A  PinP  photo. New research shows that condensation trails from aircraft exhaust are playing a significant role in global warming. Experts are concerned that efforts to change aviation engine design to reduce CO2 emissions could actually create more contrails and raise daily temperatures even more. Story here.

Canada needs to triple the amount of protected land and water to tackle 'nature emergency': report

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CBC News A Cape May warbler. So far, its populations are stable. Photo by PinP. Biodiversity is declining faster than at any other time in human history, study finds. Story here.

A popular farm fungicide, now banned in Europe as a suspected carcinogen, remains in widespread use in Canada today.

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 The European Union halted sales of all crop fungicides containing the active ingredient, chlorothalonil this spring. The move followed advice from its Food Safety Agency (EFSA) that  chlorothalonil   "may cause cancer in humans." Canada,  on the other hand, re-approved the same product just over  a  year ago. Hard numbers on amounts still being applied in this country  are hard to come by. But official government documents show  it continues to be approved for use in no less than 29  crop protection products.  by Larry Powell A ground sprayer in Manitoba. Stats Canada says farmers in that  province apply fungicides  "more frequently"  than their counterparts  in any other province, " possibly due to its large potato sector." A  PinP  photo. Chlorothalonil  is the active ingredient in  several agricultural fungicides used  to treat mildew, blight and mold in many food  crops.                                                     It's

Thirty years of unique data reveal what's really killing coral reefs

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Science News Study is world's longest record of reactive nutrients, alga concentrations for coral reefs.  Story here. Bleached coral. Photo by NOAA.

The Uninhabitable Earth

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New York Intelligencer.  Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us:  What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think.   Story here. Photo by Oxfam.