Steinbach-area ag consultant becomes new leader of Manitoba Green Party.
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CBC News Janine Gibson takes over from lawyer James Beddome, who led the party for fifteen years. Story here.
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Growing farmland inequality in the Prairies poses problems for all Canadians
The Conversation A PinP photo. Research found that investor ownership of farmland in Saskatchewan was negligible in 2002, but by 2018 had climbed to nearly one million acres — almost 18 times the size of Saskatoon. Story here. RELATED: Saskatchewan farmland, new serfdom
Devastating Impacts, Affordable Climate Solutions Drive IPCC’s Urgent Call for Action
The Energy Mix Sahtu region, western NWT - Photo by Jean Polfus A stark choice between climate stability and global devastation is the constant drumbeat from a landmark report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Details here.
Stunning satellite photos reveal - often harmful blooms of phytoplankton have not only been expanding - but intensifying significantly in the world’s coastal waters this century.
Canada is not immune. by Larry Powell Intensifying phytoplankton blooms off the coasts of BC and Washington State, 2006. Credit: Lian Feng After pouring over almost 800 thousand NASA satellite images taken over almost two decades, a team of Chinese researchers has generated a map which paints perhaps the clearest picture yet of the extent of these blooms - organisms that can be agents of either good or ill. Their findings have just been published in the journal, Nature. Dr. Lian Feng of the Southern University of Science in Shenzhen, China and colleagues discovered, phytoplankton were affecting 8.6% of the entire global ocean area in 2020 - a stunning expanse of 31.47 million km2. That was an increase of 13.2%, or 3.97 million km2 from 2003. They found algal blooms in 126 out of the 153 coastal countries examined. Globally, both the size and frequency of blooms increased significantly over the study period, Phytoplankton are families of microscopic algae. Their blooms heave been ac