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Cod Gonnit		25 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Cod Gonnit The Canadian government this week banned all commercial and recreational cod fishing in an effort to stave off the absolute collapse of the species, putting an end to an industry and a tradition that have defined the country's Atlantic coast for centuries. The radical decline of Eastern Canadian cod stocks is one of the greatest environmental disasters of the 20th century, attributed to overfishing and, perhaps, subtle change ...
Topics: Canada, marine life (all these topics)

Give a Hoot		17 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Give a Hoot Pollution in North America decreased by 5 percent between 1995 and 2000, according to a report released today by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, established under the North American Free Trade Agreement. In 2000, the U.S., Canada, and Mexico released 3.6 million tons of pollution. Of that, 1.5 million ...
Topics: business, Canada, globalization, green living, health, Mexico, North America, pollution and waste, recycling, United States (all these topics)

Ontario Clean-air Scenario		17 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Ontario Clean-air Scenario In Ontario, Canada, the three major political parties have agreed to shut down all five of the province's coal-burning power plants by 2015, the biggest success so far in an anti-coal campaign that is gaining momentum in Canada. Enviros will be particularly glad to get rid of the Nanticoke power plant on the northern shore of Lake Erie, which has earned the distinction of being Canada's top ai ...
Topics: Canada, energy, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Pro-fusion		25 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Pro-fusion The U.S. and China have officially joined the quest to develop fusion power, which proponents say could be an affordable, eco-friendly alternative to existing energy sources. The International Thermonuclear Energy Reactor is the largest global science project after the International Space Station. China, the U.S., Canada, the ...
Topics: Asia, Canada, China, climate, energy, European Union, green living, Japan, nuclear power, Russia, United States (all these topics)

Maple Syrup		19 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Maple Syrup Canada yesterday set aside $1.3 billion over five years to slash its greenhouse gas emissions and another $660 million for other environmental initiatives, as part of what Environment Minister David Anderson called "the greenest budget this country has ever seen." The government also approved a tax break for cleaner diesel and agreed to priorit ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, climate, energy, green living, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Montreal Expose		30 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Montreal Expose The Montreal Protocol, the international treaty to protect the ozone layer, has been hailed as the most effective environmental agreement ever signed. Now, though, it's efficacy could be jeopardized, because the Bush administration is calling for some exemptions to a part of the treaty that calls for a global ban on the pesticide methyl bromide by 2005. Administration officials say prohibit ...
Topics: Canada, ozone, politics, toxics, United Nations (all these topics)

I Think That I Shall Never See, a Poem As Lovely As a Job?		23 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
I Think That I Shall Never See, a Poem As Lovely As a Job? Nearly half of the Canadian province of British Columbia could be opened to logging and other commercial interests if the provincial government has its way. In an effort to encourage business and stabilize B.C.'s economic base, the government is proposing to set aside 48 percent of the province, or some 45 million hectares, as ...
Topics: Canada, logging, mining and drilling, politics, ranching, wilderness (all these topics)

Oh, Yeah, Canada		11 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Oh, Yeah, Canada Canada's House of Commons voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying the Kyoto Protocol yesterday, concluding months of rancorous debate and paving the way for a concerted international effort to curb emissions of climate-altering greenhouse gases. A triumphant Prime Minister Jean Chretien, who staked a fair bit of political capital on Kyoto, will sign Canada's official ratification by the end of the year. Though ...
Topics: Canada, climate, politics (all these topics)

The Mice That Roared		10 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
The Mice That Roared Researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, have established a first-ever link between urban air pollution and genetic damage that can be passed on from generation to generation. In a study published in the most recent issue of the U.S. journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, biologists at the university f ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, health, National Academy of Sciences, Ontario, pollution and waste (all these topics)

I'll Have No Truck With That		03 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
I'll Have No Truck With That An unlikely partnership of environmental, labor, and trucking groups filed for an emergency injunction yesterday to prevent the Bush administration from allowing Mexican trucks on U.S. roads, claiming that doing so would worsen U.S. air quality. Last week, in compliance with the North American Free Trade Agreement, President Bush called an end to 20-year-ol ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, Mexico, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

Tripping Out		28 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Tripping Out A government-supported pilot project in Alberta, Canada, is offering companies greenhouse-gas credits for every employee who works from home, in order to reduce emissions associated with commuting. The plan is the first step in an effort to produce a Canadian carbon-credits market, whereby firms that cut greenhouse-gas emissions will be able to sell credits to oth ...
Topics: business, Canada, climate, commercial and industry organizations, placemaking (all these topics)

The Personal Is Political		24 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
The Personal Is Political Never mind corporate responsibility, or government responsibility; let's talk about personal responsibility. That's the gist of Canada's new plan for fighting global warming. The proposal, which is being released today, entails convincing every last Canuck to reduce her or his own contribution to greenhouse gas emissions by one metric ton annually (or about 20 percent). Translation: cooler showers, lower thermostat ...
Topics: Canada, climate (all these topics)

Touching News		23 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Touching News A whopping 83 percent of the surface of the Earth is dedicated to human activities -- farming, mining, fishing, or just plain old living -- according to a report released this week by the Wildlife Conservation Society and Columbia University's Center for International Earth Science Information Network. Human use leaves wildlife with just a fraction of the terrestrial surface of the globe ...
Topics: Alaska, Amazon, Canada, Mongolia, Russia, wildlife (all these topics)

The Owl and the Pussycats		14 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
The Owl and the Pussycats Canadian wilderness activists still can't get over their astonishment or their delight over yesterday's announcement by International Forest Products (Interfor) that it would halt all logging in spotted owl habitat in British Columbia, Canada. The company is the second-most active logger in the endangered owl's terrain; not long ago it was considered Pub ...
Topics: business, Canada, commercial and industry organizations, logging, wildlife (all these topics)

What in the Sand Hill?		02 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
What in the Sand Hill? High on the list of Very Remote Places on Earth are the Great Sand Hills, a 730-square-mile stretch of sage brush and dunes in southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada. There is one road in the region, and precious little traffic on it. The main residents are mule deer, coyotes, burrowing owls, and the endangered Ferruginous hawk. But the Sand Hills are also home to bountiful, close-to-the-sur ...
Topics: Canada, energy, mining and drilling, wildlife (all these topics)

Don't Send Us the Bill		18 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Read more about: Canada Don't Send Us the Bill The Canadian government prorogued its parliamentary session this week, effectively killing a proposed Species At Risk bill. The bill would have banned the harassment, harming, or killing of endangered species on federal land, as well as destruction of critical habitat. The move represented the third time the Parliament has tried and failed to pass legislation to protect endangered species. Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark accused the Libera ...
Topics: Canada (all these topics)

Mr. Green Jean		03 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Mr. Green Jean One North American leader attending the summit in Johannesburg -- Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien -- took significant steps toward establishing his green legacy at home yesterday by unveiling a major expansion of the national parks system and promising to ratify the Kyoto Protocol by the end of the year. His plan to create 10 new parks and five marine conservation areas drew near-uni ...
Topics: Canada, climate, energy, national parks, politics (all these topics)

No Room at the Inn		14 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
No Room at the Inn Banff National Park is the jewel of the Canadian Rockies -- and its most sparkly facet is Lake Louise, famous for emerald waters, dense forests, and glittering reflections of Victoria Glacier. But the peaceful-looking spot is actually a battleground between a large Canadian hotel chain and environmentalists who want to put a stop to a proposed $45 million, six-story addition to the ...
Topics: Canada, lakes, national parks, placemaking, wildlife (all these topics)

Canada Drier		13 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Canada Drier Global warming could spell big trouble for Canada's freshwater supply, according to a report from the government agency Natural Resources Canada. The predicted global surface-air temperature increase of between 2.5 and 10.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the next century would sap some of the country's hydroelectric power potential, lower lake levels, and pave the way for severe drought on the Canadian prairies ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, climate, lakes (all these topics)

Frog Days of Summer		09 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Frog Days of Summer For the first time, scientists have found evidence linking agricultural runoff to the rise in grotesque hind-limb deformities in frogs. In the past, the deformities were associated with a common parasite, the burrowing trematode worm, which seemed to affect the development of tadpoles. Now, writing in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers have foun ...
Topics: Canada, toxics, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

The Name of the Haze		21 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
The Name of the Haze The U.S. National Weather Service has long maintained the tradition of giving names to hurricanes, but in Toronto, the environmental organization Greenpeace is taking matters one step further by naming excessively smoggy days after national politicians. The program is designed to call attention to the failure of the Canadian government to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change and shame politicia ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, Greenpeace (all these topics)

Can-do-ada		12 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Can-do-ada After a decade of debate, the Canadian House of Commons approved yesterday what could become Canada's first nationwide endangered species bill. The bill would prohibit the harming or killing of endangered species on federal land and the destruction of the species' critical habitat. A scientific advisory board would nominate critters to be added to an endangered species list. Environmentalists offered measured praise for the bill ...
Topics: Canada, wildlife (all these topics)

Auto-ah!		07 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Auto-ah! The Canadian government has proposed levying a tax on motorists to help pay for implementing the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. The Canadian Automobile Association, which represents some 4 million vehicle owners, calculated that the tax would be roughly $1,200 per year, based on 15 cents per mile of urban driving and three cents per mile of out-of-city driving. The CAA excoriated ...
Topics: air pollution, business, Canada, climate, energy, placemaking (all these topics)

Dreading Water		30 May 2002	Daily Grist
Dreading Water Industrial pollution in U.S. and Canadian lakes, rivers, and streams rose 26 percent from 1995 to 1999, according to a report released yesterday by the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, the environmental watchdog agency of the North American Free Trade Association. The report, entitled "Taking Stock," ...
Topics: Canada, globalization, pollution and waste, United States, water bodies and marine life, water pollution (all these topics)

Inuit Intuition		28 May 2002	Daily Grist
Inuit Intuition There is no word in the Inuit language for a robin, but suddenly, there are robins in Inuit territory -- the vast, frozen lands of the Arctic. Mostly frozen, that is; this spring, there are bare spots in the tundra snow, just one of many signs that the far north is thawing. Other signs include receding glaciers, eroding coastlines, disappearing lakes, rising temperatures, and once-unheard of thunderstorms. None of those have ...
Topics: Canada, climate (all these topics)

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