It was one ecological disaster we thought we’d largely licked.
But in an “insidious” echo of the 1980s acid rain crisis, lakes in parts of North America and Europe are now experiencing severe calcium depletions that scientists are terming an “osteoporosis” of the water, a new study in the journal Science suggests.
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Toronto shoppers will have to pay five cents for every plastic shopping bag they get from stores in the city under a proposal worked out between the city and big grocery companies.
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Are you for or against wind farms?
A thousand people who overflowed the auditorium of Sir Wilfrid Laurier Collegiate on Guildwood Pkwy. last night debated the question at a meeting that mixed neighbourhood angst with debate over the pros and cons of Toronto Hydro’s proposed offshore wind farm.
EcoWater Canada is pleased to announce the successful completion of a detailed certification process in which the EcoWater product line received the Certificate of Emissions Compliance
This time of year tends to bring out our charitable side. And these days, it seems, one can do anything to raise money for a good cause. Even date.
Climate change solutions that will be seen right here in Peterborough is now just a couple mouse clicks away.
Donald Fraser, air quality, transportation and climate change manager for Peterborough Green-Up, said Peterborough is the latest on a list of cities that is ...
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The United Nations weather agency says the three main greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere have reached record highs.
Geir Braathen of the World Meteorological Organization says carbon dioxide was up the most in 2007, one-half per cent, with methane and nitrous oxide rising by lesser amounts.
The Toronto Star
Nanticoke generating station in Haldimand County is the largest coal-fired power plant in North America and as the workhorse for Ontario’s electricity system, shutting it down by 2014 won’t be easy.
It employs 600 people. It’s an anchor for the provincial power grid, providing the voltage support needed to push electricity around southern Ontario. It’s capable of supplying 4,000 megawatts of power, or enough to supply 15 per cent of the province’s electricity needs.
The Canadian Press
Ray Zahab is hoping his challenging trek on the planet’s most rugged and dangerous terrain will inspire youth to protect it.
On Dec. 1, the 38-year-old Chelsea, Que., resident will strap on his snowshoes for an 1,100-kilometre trek to the South Pole.
Zahab and companions Richard Weber and Kevin Vallely will spend 35 days towing 72-kilogram sleds loaded with survival gear uphill in minus-40 degree weather.
He looks sweet enough, though the planet may beg to differ.
In my efforts to win this ‘Who is the greenest of them all?’ competition with my fellow Green Teamer, Matthew Van Dongen, I’ve discovered Matthew may have a biped’s leg up on ...
