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Impacts beyond land: Shipping and the marine environment
This is Part 2 of a 4 post series on the Sustainable Oceans Summit held in Halifax from Nov. 29-Dec. 1st 2017. As stated by Cristiana Paşca Palmer, executive secretary of the United Nations’...
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Must ‘Seas’ from the Sustainable Oceans Summit 2017
This is Part 3 of a 4 post series on the Sustainable Oceans Summit held in Halifax from Nov. 29-Dec. 1st 2017. From November 29th to December 1st, the World Ocean Council held the 5th iteration of the...
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Ford sets sights on Liberal environmental legacy
Incoming Premier-designate Doug Ford moved quietly this week to begin unravelling the outgoing Liberal government’s environmental legacy. After just six months on the job, Ford's new government...
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Building Canada's capacity for climate change resiliency
An expert panel charged by Ottawa with creating indicators to measure how effectively Canadians are adapting to climate change tabled its final report with the federal government Tuesday. Led by Blair...
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How to clean up our universal plastic tragedy
Twenty five years ago, I spent a summer removing plastic packing bands and plastic nets from 135 entangled Antarctic fur seals on Bird Island, South Georgia in the sub-Antarctic. Plastic marine waste...
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Taxpayers will back a carbon tax if they get a cheque in the mail
Ontario’s new premier, Doug Ford, is scrapping the province’s cap-and-trade program, designed to reward businesses that reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, as part of his promise to make gasoline...
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Who needs science advice anyway? Governments, for one
There has been much consternation within the Ontario research community since Premier Doug Ford summarily dismissed the province’s first chief scientist, Molly Shoichet, after she’d been in the job...
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Earliest Earth Overshoot Day in History
August 1st 2018 is the earliest day in history that humanity has used up more resources than the planet can renew in one year. The Global Footprint Network annually estimates how early all of humanity...
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Building housing on flood plains another sign of growing inequality
Many cities around the world face a lack of affordable housing in and around expensive central business districts. Employers want cheaper labourers, who need more affordable housing in accordance with...
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Muir wins $100,000 Weston prize for a lifetime of Arctic research
Arctic researcher Dr. Derek Muir was awarded the $100,000 Weston Family Foundation prize this week for his decades of work detailing how persistent chemicals in the environment travel to and through...
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