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 …
Calls in Canada for trials of a contentious treatment for multiple sclerosis illustrate how social media can affect research priorities, say Roger Chafe and his colleagues. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v472/n7344/full/472410a.html
Cities are blamed for the majority of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. So too are more affluent, highly urbanized countries. If all production- and consumption-based emissions that result from lifestyle and purchasing habits are included, urban residents and their associated affluence likely account for more than 80 per cent of the …
Pact to preserve vast swathe of wilderness faces reluctance from industry and resistance from native groups. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110330/full/471560a.html
Western companies are in the race for slice of the lucrative market for clean technologies such as renewable energy and water or soil treatment projects in India and China, which corporate leaders say will be worth trillions of dollars in a few years as the Asian giants grapple with rising …
TWO recent studies have clinched enough empirical data to repudiate any climate change sceptic. For the first time, the studies have pinned down greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for frequent extreme weather events like rainfall and floods. In one study, UK and Switzerland researchers analysed one of the worst floods in …
London: The demand for water in the world may exceed its supply by 40% within the next 20 years due to global warming and population growth, scientists have warned. As looming water shortages threaten agriculture, industry and the communities, a new way of thinking about water is highly essential, suggested …
Pitched battles are a regular occurrence in northern Alberta, Canada, as development of the province’s oil sands continues to expand. One ongoing battle—with another salvo launched in February 2011 with the leak of a European Commission report—concerns how dirty oil sands are, relative to other fuels. Another concerns the influence …
Any investors willing to bet that the commodities boom is running out of steam may need both courage and patience: major miners have wagered more than $110 billion on the opposite view. BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Xstrata have committed themselves in the last two weeks to spending vast sums …
Uncertainty is growing over the future of the Kyoto Protocol, the first legally binding treaty to cut greenhouse gases blamed for warming the planet. Nearly 40 industrialised nations -- all except the US -- are meant to meet targets for emissions during the pact
Monarch butterfly colonies in Mexico more than doubled in size this winter after bad storms devastated their numbers a year ago, conservationists said on Monday although the migrating insect remains under threat. Millions of butterflies make a 2,000-mile journey each year from Canada to winter in central Mexico's warmer weather …
After months of prevarication, the European Union has stated publicly that the free trade agreement (FTA) it signs with India will include provisions for data exclusivity because “it is extremely important for research and innovation’’. That’s what European Union ambassador Daniele Smadja told journalists in Delhi on January 21. Smadja’s …
Enbridge Energy Partners LP boosted its estimate for the cost of cleaning up a July pipeline spill in Michigan by 28 percent, to $550 million. The partnership, the U.S. affiliate of Canadian pipeline company Enbridge Inc, said in a regulatory filing on Friday that it raised the estimate from $430 …
Sockeye salmon in one of Canada's key but troubled fisheries on the Pacific Coast may have a genetic flaw that makes them more susceptible to disease, according to a study released on Thursday. Researchers have found a genetic profile in some of sockeye in British Columbia's Fraser River that indicates …
A tiny Canadian startup company that is preparing to open a biodiesel plant in Toronto this spring says it will produce clean fuel, animal feed and human food all from the modest flax seed. Privately held Energy Innovation Corp, which has also developed a way to produce biofuel from used …
The Canadian penny is no more worth its value. A Canadian Senate committee has urged the government to remove the penny from circulation, saying the cost of producing it exceeds its financial value. “The fact is that the penny is not of much use anymore,” committee chairperson Richard Neufeld said. …
Over 1,400 Delegates Representing 101 Countries Keen On Investing FOREIGN delegates looking for Gujarati investments mopped up proposals worth . 35,000 crore at the 5th Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit. Small and medium businesses from the state signed agreements during the twoday summit that concluded in capital Gandhinagar on Thursday promising …
A recently renovated retirement facility in Canada will now benefit from the country's largest solar heating and cooling (SHC) installation. The system will cut electricity consumption roughly in half.
Suncor Energy Inc has been ordered to pay C$200,000 ($198,000) in fines after pleading guilty to charges of releasing effluent into an Alberta river during construction of an oil sands mine in 2008. Environment Canada, the regulator, said on Wednesday that two charges were laid against Suncor under Canada's Fisheries …
