East of #Greenland, there’s a stretch of open water about 1,300 miles across where the #Arctic can pour its icy heart out to the #NorthAtlantic. Those flows include increasing surges of cold and fresh water from melted ice, and a new study in the journal #Weather and #Climate Dynamics shows how those pulses can set off a chain reaction from the ocean to the atmosphere that ends up causing summer #heatwaves and #droughts in #Europe.
For years, a #copper#smelter at Rouyn Noranda, #Quebec # 600 km northwest of #Montreal has been spewing a cocktail of #HeavyMetals into the air. W5 discovers that some of the town's residents are no longer willing to pay the financial benefits from heavy #industry.
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez #Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in #server farms to illustrate some of the diverse #environmental impacts of #datastorage.
"The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes"
As the #LabourParty's commitment to the #greentranstion wavers, and the #carecrisis continues, its worth revisiting this Women's Budget Group report from over a year ago about how re-engineering the economy around #environmental priorities would also underpin a re-enhanced economy of care.
Not all recommendations could be easily/immediately implemented (some require significant structural transformation) but this does offer a different policy vision, which we need.
The Gulf of Mexico is experiencing sea level rise two to three times as fast as the global average due to a combination of warmer waters and wind circulation patterns. Now, a newly released long-term study from marine scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has found rising sea levels can be linked to a loss of valuable #seagrass habitats in Texas. #Environmental#EarthScience#Ecology#ClimateChange#sflorg https://www.sflorg.com/2024/02/en02272402.html
#GrowingForests was born out of a refrain Prest would hear from visiting friends across #NovaScotia. Based in Musquodoboit Harbour, Prest has a background that includes working with #environmental charities, and before starting Growing Forests, running a carbon-focused #forestry company, including a small firewood business.
#Sooke has ordered Viewpointe Estates to stop work within the 30-metre riparian area of its #development project, citing potential violations of #environmental regulations.
The move follows concerns raised by residents about the project’s impact on #EllaStream and the surrounding #watershed.
Instead of hiding behind a wall of cobblestone, as in decades past, #MahoneBay is raising a shield of saltgrass, Prairie cordgrass, sweetgrass, seaside goldenrod, salt meadow hay, and more.
“What we’re looking for are species that occur naturally in salt marsh ecosystems,” said Jordan Veinot, #ClimateChange team lead with Coastal Action, an #environmental non-profit leading Mahone Bay’s living shoreline project.
The director of the Centre for Free Expression is joining a call for the #PEI government to protect Islanders from #legal actions designed to silence them from speaking out on matters of public interest.
James Turk told CBC's Island Morning that he believes a prominent developer's #lawsuit against the #Environmental Coalition of P.E.I. amounts to a #SLAPP, an acronym for "strategic lawsuit against public participation."
Over several months, @thenarwhal & The Globe and Mail have scoured publicly available records, reviewed financial data & interviewed experts about #BritishColumbia's mine reclamation plan & found that, in practice, BC was short $753-million of the estimated #cleanup cost in its last financial year & some of the best-capitalized companies have not yet paid for future #ReclamationCosts.
For the first time in over 20 years, the #BlackRedhorse has been spotted in Fish Creek, a tributary in a river system that hosts one of the healthiest populations of the #ThreatenedSpecies in #Canada.
The Upper Thames River #Conservation Authority announced the sighting of the #fish — which is listed as a threatened nationwide — earlier this week