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Wealthy countries are gazing hungrily at Canada's prairiesJan 30, 2009 - Globe and Mail TORONTO - Last year, the Saudis finally concluded that desert wheat made no more sense than Nunavut pineapples. The farms will disappear within a few years, after which the country will be entirely dependent on imports from any nation willing to sell or lease vast tracts of its farmland. No longer available |
Australia swelters in searing heatJan 29, 2009 - Reuters SYDNEY - A heatwave scorching southern Australia, causing transport chaos by buckling rail lines and leaving more than 140,000 homes without power, is a sign of climate change, the government said on Thursday. |
Canadian bishop slams oil sands developmentJan 27, 2009 - Reuters CALGARY - The rapid-fire development of Canada's oil sands region has garnered a new critic - the Catholic bishop whose diocese extends over the world's second-largest oil reserves. |
'Climate hope' in economic plansJan 26, 2009 - BBC News LONDON - Economic stimulus packages being drawn up around the world show governments are taking the environment seriously, the UN's top climate official believes. |
Some climate damage already irreversibleJan 26, 2009 - Globe and Mail WASHINGTON — Many damaging effects of climate change are already basically irreversible, researchers declared Monday, warning that even if carbon emissions can somehow be halted temperatures around the globe will remain high until at least the year 3000. No longer available |
House burrowed into earth costs just $20 a year to heatJan 26, 2009 - Winnipeg Free Press NEAR MACGREGOR. MB - So what does it cost Cam and Lisa Cleaver to heat their home, nestled in a gorgeous 22-acre woodlot atop the Manitoba escarpment? Twenty bucks. |
Manitobans a long way from being greenJan 26, 2009 - Winnipeg Free Press WINNIPEG - Manitobans are bucking the green trend by throwing away increasingly more garbage and earning the dubious distinction of being the worst recyclers in the country. |
Gases gone at stroke of penJan 23, 2009 - Winnipeg Free Press WINNIPEG - The City of Winnipeg will soon announce it’s met an 11-year-old commitment to reduce greenhouse- gas emissions, even though it has actually done relatively little to combat climate change. [Note: the article states that methane is 11x more potent than CO2, but most sources estimate that methane is 21x more potent than CO2.] |
New evidence on Antarctic warmingJan 21, 2009 - BBC WILKINS ICE SHELF, Antarctica - The continent of Antarctica is warming up in step with the rest of the world, according to a new analysis. |
Antarctic ice shelf set to collapse due to warmingJan 20, 2009 - Reuters WILKINS ICE SHELF, Antarctica - A huge Antarctic ice shelf is on the brink of collapse with just a sliver of ice holding it in place, the latest victim of global warming that is altering maps of the frozen continent. |
Harper wants joint Canada-U.S. policies on energy, ecologyJan 20, 2009 - Globe and Mail OTTAWA - Canada will propose a series of common environmental standards and energy-development plans to new U.S. President Barack Obama beyond a North American cap-and-trade system for greenhouse-gas emissions, government sources say. No longer available |
Carbon capture projects become viable at $50 a TonJan 19, 2009 - Bloomberg ABU DHABI - Permits to release a ton of carbon dioxide into the air need to cost about $50 each, or three times Europe’s current price, for companies to invest in experimental technology to trap the greenhouse gas, Nicholas Stern said. |
Rain speeds Antarctic Peninsula glacier meltJan 16, 2009 - Reuters SHELDON GLACIER, Antarctica - More rain on the Antarctic Peninsula is speeding a melt of glaciers such as the Sheldon, which has retreated 2 km (1.2 miles) in 20 years and is nudging up world sea levels, a leading expert said. |
Companies lay out wishes for U.S. carbon lawJan 15, 2009 - Reuters WASHINGTON / NEW YORK - A group of large U.S. companies, including the troubled Big Three automakers, on Thursday offered Congress a blueprint for greenhouse gas regulation with looser limits than President-elect Barack Obama has called for. |
City explores light-rail optionsJan 13, 2009 - Winnipeg Free Press WINNIPEG - There might still be some life in former mayor Steve Juba's dream of a monorail for Winnipeg - or at least a stripped-down, high-tech version. |
Canada to study economic impact of climate changeJan 12, 2009 - Canwest News OTTAWA — The Harper government is planning to take a detailed look at the economic impacts of a changing climate in Canada, Canwest News Service has learned. No longer available |
Scientists track impact of climate change using beluga, walrus teethJan 12, 2009 - Canadian Press WINNIPEG - Researchers are hoping the huge tusks of the walrus and choppers of the beluga whale will help track the increasing impact of global warming on Canadian Arctic mammals and the Inuit communities that depend on the creatures for food. |
Exposing the myth of clean coal powerJan 10, 2009 - Time HARRIMAN, Tenn. – The idea of clean coal might be truly dead, buried beneath 1.1 billion gallons of water mixed with toxic coal ash - 100 times more waste than the Exxon Valdez disaster. The waterways of Harriman, Tenn. are now polluted with potentially dangerous levels of toxic metals like arsenic and mercury and much of the town is uninhabitable. |
Exxon chief backs carbon taxJan 10, 2009 - The Guardian WASHINGTON - The world's biggest oil company, Exxon Mobil, has softened its hardline position on climate change by throwing its weight behind a tax on carbon emissions. |
Europe shivers, but world is getting hotterJan 9, 2009 - Reuters GENEVA - It might feel cold but the world is getting hotter and global warming remains a danger, the United Nations weather agency WMO said Friday. |
Carbon tax shaping up as key issue in B.C. voteJan 7, 2009 - Toronto Star VANCOUVER – The phrase "carbon tax" has all but disappeared among federal Liberals, but the B.C. Liberals are not backing down on their version as they head into an election campaign this year. |
Ottawa misses fuel-efficiency standards deadlineJan 6, 2009 - Global News OTTAWA - The federal government appears to have missed a key legislated benchmark to bring in new fuel-efficiency standards that will help Canada reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. No longer available |
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