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 …
Government-owned NMDC, India's single largest iron ore producer and exporter, is in talks with Canada's New Millennium Capital Corp (NML) for a $3.5 billion (Rs 14,000 crore) project to develop one of the world's largest undeveloped low-grade (magnetite) iron-ore deposits. Confirming this, Rana Som, NMDC chairman and managing director, said …
A controversial nuclear club is taking shape. The UK has signed up to the Bush administration's Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) just a few months after it was rubbished as unworkable by the US National Academy of Sciences. The UK joins several other recent recruits, including Canada, Senegal and South …
Philippines recently ordered Novartis to pull out its anti-arthritis painkiller from the country. It is feared that the drug lumiracoxib, also sold as prexige, causes liver damage. The Bureau of Food and Drugs, the health regulators in the country, said the risks were greater than the benefits and cited reports …
A Vast Lake Trapped Under Ice Sheet Drained Into The Sea, Bringing Down Temperatures Paris: Canadian geologists say they can shed light on how a vast lake, trapped under the ice sheet that once smothered much of North America, drained into the sea, an event that cooled Earth's climate for …
The Arctic reflects what ails a world gripped by global warming. As the ice melts and nations vie for rich mineral resources once hidden under the snow, the writing on the wall is often ignored, says Fatima Chowdhury Thousands of miles away in the Arctic region, fate stands delicately balanced …
One thing Canada is not short of is lakes. It has so many that it can afford to set some aside to experiment on. And that is what Karen Kidd, an ecotoxicologist at the University of New Brunswick, has just done to a small lake in north-west Ontario. She has …
The US Centers for Disease Control has been accused of withholding data related to health risks in and around the Great Lakes area. But the agency says the report, pairing toxin concentrations with human health concerns, which was due out last year, had "deficiencies'.
Lawmakers are again asserting that the Bush Administration is meddling in science. House Science Committee Democrats charge that federal officials have suppressed a report on potential health threats from pollution in the Great Lakes. They also say officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, …
The Canadian health and drug regulator Health Canada has asked Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Canada (RPCI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited (RLL) to withdraw its generic, 25 microgram per hour strength, fentanyl pain-relief patches from the Canadian market due to safety concerns. Ranbaxy controls more than 50 per cent …
A picture, they say, is worth a thousand words. The anti-tobacco lobby is learning to use that dictum to its advantage. Gory and graphic pictures of cancer stricken patients occupy 30 per cent of the surface of a cigarette packet in countries like Thailand, Hong Kong, Canada and Australia. As …
Transit planning in the United States has tended toward viewing BRT as an analogue to light rail transit, with similar operating patterns. This model, referred to as "Light Rail Lite,' is compared to international best practices, which have often favored the development of a grade-separated bus infrastructure ("Quickways') that in …
some microbes have been breaking down petroleum into methane deep within the earth for ages. But we do not know the bacteria or how they do it. A recent study has revealed the answers, with scientists producing methane from petroleum in the laboratory by feeding these microbes. Over millions of …
Contrary to what it says in the song, the rain in Spain does not stay mainly in the plain. It falls mostly in the mountainous regions of Cantabria and Asturias. Ask meteorologists why, and they will explain that the prevailing winds pick up moisture over the Atlantic, and that when …
The Bali conference on climate change is over. But the fight against climate change has only just begun. The message from Bali is the fight will be downright brutal and selfish. Let us cut through the histrionics of the Bali conference to understand that as far as an agreement is …
When the first comprehensive report in years to examine energy use by computer servers was published in February 2007, it was greeted with surprise by industry insiders. Jonathan Koomey, a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, found that worldwide power consumption by servers had doubled between 2000 …
This report analyzes the corporate governance and strategic approaches of 40 of the world’s largest banks to the challenges and opportunities posed by climate change. This report is designed as a benchmarking tool that highlights climate change best practices within the financial sector. It employs a “Climate Change Governance Checklist” …
The first population-level analysis suggests that sea lice from farmed salmon will cause several populations of one species of salmon in British Columbia to plummet by 99% within 8 years.
imbalances in sex ratio around the world have been attributed to a variety of reasons. Scientists have now found more evidence of a link between chemicals like polychlorobiphenyls (pcb) and a decline in the birth of males. Over the years scientists and communities have descerned a peculiar trend. The Aamjiwnaang …
The Canadian government has reportedly decided to slash its expenses on wildlife protection and monitoring of ecosystems because of a financial crunch. It has decided to cut the budget for its various environmental programmes by 80 per cent and that for climate change by 40 per cent. The cuts mean …
