Air quality is a major challenge globally and is the single greatest environmental risk to human health. More than 90 per cent of the world’s population lives in areas that exceed the World Health Organization guideline for healthy air. In North America, Canada and the United States of America have …
Residents along the Athabasca River, which flows through the oil sands region of Alberta, are being advised to avoid drinking from the waterway after contaminated fluids were released from a coal mine storage pond. The warning was issued after an undetermined amount of water and sediment, including shale and coal …
Taseko Mines Ltd said on Friday that it will challenge findings of a Canadian federal review panel, which said that the company's revised plan for a copper-gold mine in British Columbia poses significant threats to the environment. In a statement, Taseko said the findings contradict best practices in place around …
A revised mine plan for Taseko Mines' New Prosperity copper-gold project in British Columbia still poses significant threats to the environment and nearby communities, a Canadian federal review panel said late on Thursday. Water quality in a trout-bearing lake beside the proposed mine, fish in the lake, land and resources …
Canada acknowledged on Thursday that it will miss its target for greenhouse gas emissions by a wider margin than expected unless it takes further action to offset emissions in the oil industry. The admission in a report by the environment ministry comes as the Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper is …
Canada, the world’s seventh-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, will increase output of carbon dioxide through 2020, failing to meet a government pledge to lower emissions, Environment Canada said today. Without further measures to curb carbon output, emissions will increase to 734 megatonnes by 2020 from 701 megatonnes in 2011, Environment …
Alberta is Canada's industry epicenter and home to more than 40 companies that produce industrial emissions. Recent studies conducted by the University of California and the University of Michigan have indicated higher levels of contaminants which can potentially be linked to spikes in the incidences of cancer in the region. …
The International Centre for Diarrheal Disease and Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) has been nominated for a scale-up grant of up to $ 2.0 million by Grand Challenges Canada, funded by the government of Canada. The grant will be provided for a project that will promote early cognitive development through a programme …
Onshore wind turbine REpower 3.0M122 with a rated power of 3.0 megawatts and a rotor diameter of 122 metres Particularly cost-effective in low-wind locations thanks to the large rotor Pune/Hamburg/Toronto: The Suzlon Group, the fifth-largest* manufacturer of wind turbines in the world, has announced the launch of its …
Canada will provide $19.9 million to Bangladesh in partnership with Unicef to help improve the health of hard to reach mothers and young children in remote areas considering the country's challenges in reaching millennium development goals (MDGs) and venturing beyond. Canadian High Commissioner Heather Cruden disclosed this to the FE …
THE $4 billion that two Canadian companies, Barrick Gold and Goldcorp, have poured into developing Pueblo Viejo, a gold mine, since 2009 amounts to the largest single foreign investment in the history of the Dominican Republic. The companies say that the money has turned the polluted ruins of what was …
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, trying to win U.S. backing for the Keystone XL pipeline, has sent a letter to President Barack Obama proposing joint action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the oil and gas sector, CBC News said on Friday. The White House has not responded to the …
Canada’s Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said his nation wants to work with the U.S. to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, including from Alberta’s oil sands, the source of crude to be carried by the Keystone XL pipeline. Canada is pursuing policies to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions from using oil sands to the …
A magnitude 6.0 quake struck off Canada’s Vancouver Island on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but there were no reports of damage and no tsunami warnings were issued following the event. The USGS said the quake, initially measured as a magnitude 6.2, was very shallow, only 0.6 miles (965 …
A wrangle over growing genetically modified crops in France flared anew today as the country's top administrative court overturned a government ban on growing GM corn sold by the US giant Monsanto. In the second legal setback to French restrictions on MON810 corn in five years, the Council of State …
Environmental determinants of appendicitis are poorly understood. Past work suggests that air pollution may increase the risk of appendicitis. The researchers investigated whether ambient ground-level ozone (O3) concentrations were associated with appendicitis and whether these associations varied between perforated and nonperforated appendicitis.
Canada does not think there would be a net increase in carbon emissions if TransCanada Corp builds its proposed Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta's oil sands to Texas, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, U.S. President Barack Obama had indicated he would block the …
China and the United States took a major step in the fight against climate change over the weekend, but what was termed a "breakthrough" might not do much in the longer term to lock in legally binding carbon emission cuts from the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases. Still, …
The lives of over 150,000 children in the country could be saved by a $5-million-programme launched in India by UNICEF-Canada and Teck under the Zinc Alliance for Child Health(ZACH). The five-year programme aims at scaling up the use of zinc supplementation and oral rehydration salts (ORS) to treat diarrhoea while …
Stockholm convention approves non-chemical as well as chemical alternatives The Conference of Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, meeting in Geneva, approved non-chemical as well as chemical alternatives to endosulfan on Thursday. The non-chemical alternatives were proposed in a significant departure from past practice. The evaluation of …
Recently, the Joint Policy Committee (JPC) of the Societies of Epidemiology (SE), a consortium of national and international epidemiologic societies and organizations, released a statement calling for the global ban of asbestos use (JPC-SE 2012). This is not the first such call for an international ban (Collegium Ramazzini 2010), but …
