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Climate Impacts Could Cost Canada $140 Billion by 2050, Insurance Giant Warns
Canada will be more than $100 billion poorer by 2050 if the world doesn’t work harder to fight climate change, says one of the ... -
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Victoria LNG Project Gets Swept Away in Australian Renewable Energy Surge
As Australian energy provider AGL officially pulls the plug on its proposed Victoria coast LNG import terminal, a new report predicts a surge in ... -
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Alberta Pauses Rocky Mountain Coal Exploration as Public Pressure Mounts
The Alberta government bowed to public pressure late last week and paused coal exploration in the most sensitive areas of the Rocky Mountains while ... -
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Climate Impacts Could Cost Canada $140 Billion by 2050, Insurance Giant Warns
Canada will be more than $100 billion poorer by 2050 if the world doesn’t work harder to fight climate change, says one of the ... -
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74% of Scientists Want Virtual Meetings to Continue Post-Pandemic
After a year of pandemic lockdowns, travel restrictions, and endemic Zoom fatigue, 74% of researchers want scientific meetings to continue in virtual formats or ... -
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Carbon Polluters Replace Tobacco as Major Sponsors of Sports Events
Who backs the world of sport with hard cash? The prosperous tobacco industry was till 2005 among the main sports sponsors, but that year ... -
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Local Councillors Raise Coal Mining Concern in Alberta Environment Minister’s Home Riding
A municipal council in Alberta Environment Minister Jason Nixon’s constituency is the latest in a growing number of communities expressing concern about the province’s ... -
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Rapid Alpine Warming Threatens Soil Carbon, Food Production
The early melting of snow in the Alps is not just bad news for ardent skiers and for those who are dependent on the ... -
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Quebec River is First in Canada to Gain ‘Legal Personhood’
With its kilometres of rapids and deep blue waters winding through Quebec’s Côte-Nord region, the Magpie river has long been a culturally significant spot ... -
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Surge of New Oil Drilling Permits Could Help U.S. Fossils Withstand Biden Climate Plan
In the closing months of the Trump administration, fossil companies stockpiled enough drilling permits for western public lands to keep pumping oil for years ... -
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Parade of Alberta Coal Developments Threatens Recreation Areas, Biodiversity
EDMONTON — At least five popular recreation areas in southern Alberta are surrounded by coal exploration plans and one of them has been partly ... -
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Countries Miss All 20 Targets Under UN Biodiversity Convention
A decade after adopting a set of biodiversity restoration goals under a United Nations treaty, countries have missed every single milestone in the effort ... -
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Stricken Oil Tankers Pose New Ecosystem Risks Off Sri Lanka, Venezuela
Two more disabled oil tankers are at risk of causing serious ecosystem damage, with a vessel in the Indian Ocean off Sri Lanka on ... -
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Ecological Disaster in the Making as Oil Slick Spreads Off Mauritius Coast
With a bulk carrier leaking tonnes of fuel off its southeast coast and rough weather at risk of tearing the Japanese-owned vessel apart, the ... -
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Global Sports Sector Bears Climate Responsibility and Risk
The sports sector is playing against the clock when it comes to its greenhouse gas emissions impact and vulnerability to the climate crisis, according ...
