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 …
Aboriginal peoples are considered as one founding nation of Canada. Before European settlers arrived, Aboriginal peoples already had governance structures and legal systems. Aboriginal peoples had two choices: either adapt or assimilate to the foreign culture and system, or to keep its own and ignore the settlers, which ended up …
It seems that the European Union (EU) has lost the fight with George W. Bush. No, I am not referring to the Transatlantic struggle over the legitimacy of the war in Iraq and over UN supremacy in rebuilding the devastated country. I am talking about the battle over the right …
organic reservoir: Spreading an ultra-thin layer of organic molecules on the surface of reservoirs could prevent millions of cubic metres of water evaporating each year, according to Flexible Solutions, a Canadian company. It is the first to commercialise the technique. Field tests of the technology conducted in several countries show …
After a heat wave scorched Europe this summer, it is the largest ice shelf in the Arctic region that seems to have fallen prey to global warming. At least 3,000 years old, the Ward Hunt ice shelf on the north coast of Ellesmere Island in Canada's Nunavutterritory has broken into …
September saw a slew of developments giving renewed impetus to the global movement against asbestos. While a consensus was evolved in three conferences
glyphosate, the world's most widely used herbicide, encourages the growth of toxic fungi that devastate wheat fields. This is the alarming finding of a study conducted by scientists working for the Canadian government. The conclusion could prove to be a major blow for backers of genetically modified (gm) wheat, especially …
farmers from developing countries may no longer be forced to buy expensive seeds of genetically modified (gm) plants. A new variety of gm plant will produce fertile seeds that carry desirable traits, but are incapable of spreading engineered genes into the environment. Environmentalists have long warned about the dangers of …
the destruction of the world's oceans by industrial fishing is quite evident in a shocking new report. The analysis suggests that 90 per cent of the large predator fish have been lost in the past 50 years. The era of
New visitors to Toronto, if any, cannot be blamed if they think the city has become a ghost town. Tourists are likely to be greeted by empty shops and streets, with hotels offering high discounts to fill their mainly vacant rooms. The World Health Organisation's (who) recent advisory against travelling …
for the first time, researchers have discovered that a mammal has changed its genetic make-up to cope with global warming. The change has been observed in North American red squirrel. Andrew McAdam and his colleagues from the University of Alberta, Canada, monitored four generations of the squirrels in Yukon, Canada, …
Environmental groups in the US and Canada have got together and filed a suit in a federal district court in Washington DC, challenging the US' continued use of wood preservatives containing arsenic and other harmful substances. The groups say the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has "overwhelming data' on the …
norway has withdrawn the permit issued to a carbon dioxide sequestration study following appeals from environmental groups such as Greenpeace Nordic and World Wide Fund for Nature, Norway. The permit for conducting the study was issued by Norway's pollution control agency. In an official statement Borge Brende, the Norwegian environment …
Energy conservation seems to be the new buzzword for the Ontario government. The small Canadian province is set to offer tax credits to firms investing in energy-saving equipment and consumers buying solar panels. Ontario energy minister John Baird said new investments in energy-saving equipment would be eligible for a 100 …
Canada has embarked on a major wildlife conservation campaign. The country is planning to create 10 new national parks, spread over 100,000 square kilometres, and five marine conservation areas over the next five years. Announcing this, Prime Minister Jean Chretien gave an assurance that Ottawa would also do more to …
this year's ozone hole over Antarctic is not only much smaller than what it was in 2000 and 2001, but it has split into two. The so-called hole, actually an area of thinner-than-normal ozone, was measured at 15.6 million square kilometers (sq km) in September 2002
