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 …
eighteen environmentalists have been arrested in Vancouver, Canada, for opposing the logging of some of the remaining pristine rainforest valleys in the Great Bear Rainforests. The uk is playing a major role in forest destruction as it continues to import timber and pulp from British Columbia's ancient temperate rainforests to …
farmed Atlantic salmon have become the latest problem for the wavering populations of Pacific salmon on Canada's Pacific coast. Most fish raised in the rapidly growing coastal salmon farming industry of British Columbia are strains of Atlantic salmon as they grow faster and tolerate crowding much better than the several …
following recent reports of emission of dioxins from iron and steel plants in Europe, federal environmental agencies in usa and Canada are planning to launch a bilateral effort to probe dioxin emissions from such plants. Dioxins are carcinogens that are emitted when certain highly-chlorinated compounds are burned. Some recent European …
Some cardiac arrests may be all in the mind. Researchers in Canada have discovered a region in the brain that controls the activity of heart and blood vessels. According to them, abnormalities in the region can result in heart attacks. They suspect that many unexplained heart attacks could be due …
it is christmas time and Santa Claus is finally seeing red. But it is not due to his clothes, because what he is wearing is green and his agenda is to raid toy shops to rid them of toxic toys. The beneficiaries of this drive will be three-year-old children who …
scientists in Canada after analysing soils eaten by people in China, Zimbabwe and the us have concluded that eating soils have their own advantages. Susan Aufreiter of the University of Toronto and William Mahaney of York University, also in Toronto, used a technique called instrumental neutron activation analysis to get …
MORE than a million hectares of mountain ranges, rivers and valleys in the rocky mountains of British Columbia are to be surrounded by a buffer zone. As a result, al! development in the area will take place under strict guidelines. Known as Muskwa-Kechika, the area is larger than Switzerland. This …
For years researchers have marvelled at the phenomenon of singing sands. Marcel Leach and Douglas Goldsack at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Canada have discovered that for sands to sing, they need to be coated with a layer of silica gel. After examining various types of sands they found that the …
canadian researchers have developed potatoes that may be used to prevent diabetes. The special potato has been successfully tried on mice, to prevent one type of diabetes called type i . The researchers say plants can also be used for treating diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis by …
A recent study says the inability in women to synthesise the hormone serotonin as fast as men could be the reason why women feel more depressed. A team of researchers led by S Nishizawa of the McGill University, Montreal, measured serotonin synthesis in eight women and seven men. The synthesis …
According to Canadian researchers, flooded wetlands emit greenhouse gases in large quantities. Worse, their studies have confirmed that the creation of reservoirs in wetlands unleash poisons into the human food supply. Several studies of reservoirs have suggested that they release large quantities of carbon dioxide and methane. But in the …
A CAMPAIGN is on to save the Great Bear rainforest in Ista valley in Bella Coola, British Columbia. Recently, four environmental groups joined the natives of the Nuxalk nation to blockade logging operations in the valley which is sacred to the Nuxalk tribe. The campaigners included gre6n groups like Greenpeace, …
UP To half of the world's biological wealth is threatened with extinction if the current protective measures are not extended to cover more land area. This is the conclusion of a report, Moving Beyond Brundtland, which was commissioned by Greenpeace and released recently in Vancouver, Canada. The report is based …
THE threat posed by the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria, UK, has extended through the Arctic Ocean into the waters of northern Canada. According to a new Canadian study, the radioactive contamination, which had not been previously picked up so far from Britain, is having a bigger impact on …
A CHUNK of the earth's crust off Canada's west coast is beginning to disappear, says a report by North American geologists. The fragment, known as the 'Explorer plate', is fusing with its neighbouring plates to form a new plate boundary and will cease to exist independently. This is the first …
all that would be left of the cosmos in the years to come would be a gigantic black space: this is the rather depressing conclusion of a study conducted by Fred Adams and Greg Laughlin of the University of Michigan on the future of the universe. The only hopeful feature …
A NEW anti-tobacco strategy by the Canadian government involves a series of tough measures. Hiking tobacco taxes, extending a surtax on tobacco manufacturers' profits and banning tobacco advertisement on television, radio and billboards are some of the measures to counter tobacco use. In the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick …
Canada's nuclear expansion plans have run into rough weather. Two environmental groups, the Sierra Club of Canada and Energy Probe have decided to take the government to court if it continues its proposal to construct two huge nuclear reactors in China. The ecologists contend that the government has bypassed its …
the future of the sockeye salmon, which return every year to the Adams, one of North America's most important salmon rivers, remains uncertain despite efforts by the Canadian Federal government to cut the large commercial fishing fleet to half. The number of salmon returning to the river has dramatically decreased …
