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27/5/2010
Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a new, more accurate method of calculating the change in greenhouse gas emissions that results from changes in land use.
The new approach, described in the journal Global Change ...
15/10/2009
Some Canadian rivers are at risk of drying up as impacts of climate change intersect with growing water demand from the country's cities, industries and agriculture, a new WWF report has found.
Canada's Rivers at Risk: Environmental ...
24/4/2009
WE AWAKE IN OUR TENTS in the moonlight to what sounds like a dance troupe in wooden clogs practicing on rock under stunted juniper trees. It's a half-dozen Carmen mountain white-tailed deer, scraping at the ground with bootlike hooves, bending ...
1/2/2009
Living in times of unprecedented climate change has given way to new uncertainties. Every day, new evidence points to fundamental changes in our natural world. Most recently, there is more news that warming temperatures are killing our forests ...
24/9/2008
How much is a forest worth? And how do we calculate that
value? Do we simply count the trees and figure out how much we could get for them if we were to cut them down and turn them into logs, lumber, and pulp and paper?
That's been the ...
12/8/2008
Are Canadian politicians finally paying serious attention to the environment? Recent events and announcements give us reason for optimism.
Last week, we wrote about the federal Sustainable Development Act and how all the political ...
13/2/2008
The approval of a new De Beers Canada exploration project and some 1,500
other mining claims in Ontario's northern
boreal forest suggests the provincial
government is putting the interests of the mining industry before the concerns
of ...
30/4/2007
In the final stages of dehydration the body shrinks, robbing youth from the
young as the skin puckers, eyes recede into orbits, and the tongue swells and
cracks. Brain cells shrivel and muscles seize. The kidneys shut down. Blood
volume ...
21/3/2007
Nearly 40,000 hectares of forest vanish every day, driven by the world's
growing hunger for timber, pulp and paper, and ironically, new biofuels and
carbon credits designed to protect the environment.
The irony here is that the ...
4/1/2007
Signs are everywhere that Canadians are riding a new wave of environmental
awareness and concern. Issues ranging from the threat of global warming to the
fate of species such as caribou and polar bears are cropping up in conversation
in ...
27/9/2006
"Further global warming of 1 °C defines a critical threshold. Beyond that we
will likely see changes that make Earth a different planet than the one we
know."
So says Jim Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for ...
24/9/2006
It's time to create a comprehensive accounting system for natural capital to
recognize the full
value of
ecosystem services provided by
boreal forests, an
ecological economist will urge delegates to Canada's 10th National Forest ...
31/5/2006
I sat on my farmhouse's back step in the low light of dawn, watching two
blackpoll warblers - slim, streaky and hyperkinetic - flit through the new
leaves of the maples, which the sun turned into tiny lenses of green.
My trees ...
19/5/2006
The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC), the world’s
largest scientific organization devoted to the study and wise use of tropical
ecosystems, has formally endorsed a proposal to help save tropical forests
through ...
14/2/2006
Described as a 'mosquito inside a tent', Rainforest Action Network are
forcing corporate America to change its destructive practices. Nicola Graydon
meets this inspiring group of activists.
The last five years have seen three of ...
30/11/2005
Canada’s
boreal forests store 67 billion tonnes of carbon, a “bank account” for the future preservation of Earth worth an estimated $3.7 trillion, says the first report to assign a dollar
value to those ancient groves.Counting Canada’s ...
25/11/2005
Canada's trees may be more valuable left standing than turned into two-by-fours or pulped for paper, according to a new report released Friday by the Canadian
Boreal Initiative in Ottawa.The report marks the first time a dollar
value has ...
12/10/2005
Anyone who regularly reads science journals knows there's no shortage of
research about how human activities are affecting our
ecosystems. But
translating that research into action to conserve those systems is another
matter. ...
20/1/2005
Abstract.-Multivariate analysis of shell characters and quantification of
morphological diversity (morphospace occupation and disparity) are used here to
investigate the modes of morphological diversification of ammonites. We define ...
8/6/2004
We have designer clothes and designer perfumes. Now we need designer
ecosystems — at least according to a group of scientists writing a report in the
journal Science.
The authors argue that humans have so monumentally ...
9/4/2004
The widely held notion that Canada is taking excellent care of its wild,
pristine lands — far better than the gluttonous citizens in the United States —
is nothing more than a misperception approaching myth. Americans, or Yanks as
they ...
2/2/2004
Canada's northern forests are bitterly cold this time of year and mostly
quiet, except for the wind whistling through the trees. The billions of
songbirds and waterfowl that nest here in the summers, filling the woods with a
cacophony of ...
1/12/2003
OTTAWA, Ontario, December 1, 2003 (ENS) - A new coalition of Canadian
conservation organizations, resource companies, and First Nations today proposed
a plan to establish a network of large, interconnected, protected areas across
at least ...
25/6/2003
TORONTO - In order to highlight the rich ecological treasure of Canada's vast
boreal region, more than 25 prominent Canadians are joining a series of river
expeditions this summer through the heart of the
boreal forest.
Those ...
26/5/2003
Ten years after the historic battle to protect spotted owls and old-growth
forests, California's woods are quiet, almost churchlike.
The chain saws and logging trucks that once shattered the symphony of bird
song and muted the music ...