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Le Canada et l'Arctique

Le réchauffement climatique a des répercussions considérables sur l’environnement arctique, dont l’une est de rendre cette région beaucoup plus accessible au commun des mortels. Les nouvelles ...

A Line in the Tar Sands

Tar sands “development” comes with an enormous environmental and human cost. But tar sands opponents—fighting a powerful international industry—are likened to terrorists; government environmental ...

Bold Scientists

By (author) Michael Riordon
Categories: Philosophy of science

As governments and corporations scramble to pull the plug on research that proves that they are poisoning our planet and rush to muzzle the scientists who dare to share their disturbing data, it seems ...

From Hiroshima to Fukushima to You

Clear and accurate information about the risks of radiation told through fascinating stories. Few physicians give thought to the delayed health effects of radiation or challenge the potential overuse ...

The Answer Is Still No

“The oil and gas industry has wanted into the west coast for decades. This is an ongoing struggle between the people who live here and have access to the marine resources now, the fish, and the industry, ...

Changements climatiques et biodiversité du Québec

By (author) Dominique Berteaux
Categories: Climate change

Afin de comprendre et de prévoir les répercussions des changements climatiques sur la biodiversité du Québec, des climatologues, biologistes, naturalistes et gestionnaires de la biodiversité ont ...

The Oil Man and the Sea

With Enbridge Inc. 's Northern Gateway proposal nearing approval, supertankers loaded with two million barrels of bitumen each may soon join herring, humpbacks and salmon on their annual migration through ...

Unlikely Radicals

For twenty-two years politicians and businessmen pushed for the Adams Mine landfill as a solution to Ontario’s garbage disposal crisis. This plan to dump millions of tonnes of waste into the fractured ...

Cold Matters

By (author) Robert William Sandford
Categories: Applied ecology

Cold Matters is a vital and approachable work that distills the scientific complexities of snow, ice, water and climate and presents the global implications of research put forth and funded by the Canadian ...