It is popularly believed that 700million year ago, during the late Neoproterozoic era the earth was completely covered with ice. The period which, preceded the Cambrian explosion, when earth grew more rapidly than during any other period in the...
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As per the latest report by the minority conservative party of Canada, Canada is most likely to miss on its commitments to the international community regarding the Koyoto protocol.
The objective of the protocol is the stabilization of greenhouse gas...
Researchers had given some food for thought to Canadian and European governments about the impacts of cold water fishing in the North West Atlantic. Further details of this research which was funded by the WWF are detailed in a study released by...
Global opposition to import of seal trade from Canada is increasingly growing and becoming stronger each day. Taking a step further, Belgium has banned any import of seal from Canada for the cruel and savage means by which the mammal is killed. On...
Temperatures are surging fast, lakes drying up, glaciers retreating, oceans leveling coasts, biological creatures showing signs of extinction. Do you know what it is all about? Yes, there is hardly any person who doesn’t have the answer. The...
A new study has revealed that building a railway to link Alaska to the rest of North America would mean wider benefits even if expenditure on construction were more than projected.
The study pointed that the construction of the 1,600-mile or...
A tri-partite discussion on water transfers and diversions would be the highlight of the North American Future 2025 Project with Canada, US and Mexico trying to agree on an arrangement at the end of the discussion.
The North American Future 2025...
The United States and Canada will soon start negotiating on measures to curb cross-border air pollution.
In the past, both the countries have signed agreements on issues like ground-level ozone, acid rain and scientific co-operation.
This time, the...
Has the California condor returned to Mexico? This can be heralded by an egg found in an abandoned eagle nest. The iconic giant of the skies hasn't had a breeding population for about 75 years. Once on the brink of extinction, the California condor...
The inhumane gestures of Canadian officials seem to go a bit humane, but not out of humanity � its prevailing necessity.
Despite animal rights protests, Canadian hunters are allowed to kill young harp seals off the east coast. And in a hunt,...
About 300,000 seals are killed annually on the ice covered Atlantic seaboard of Canada. The commercial hunting begins at the end of March every year. The hunt is a centuries old occupation here. The low-income fishing communities here make about a...
1997 witnessed the signature dooming the future of Andean watershed region as Chile and Argentina adopted the Mining Integration and Complementation Treaty. This treaty permits investors to explore and exploit mineral deposits that bestride the...
Canada could be hurt by its retreat from the Kyoto Protocol, according to the United Nations Environment Program. And, its economy would be most affected, Achim Steiner tells Canadian Press.
An international emissions trading system could always...
When we thin of healthy-food, fresh fruit and vegetables are the first ones to be put in the list. But, things are not so for the ones sold in Canada. Do you know, more than 20 per cent of fresh fruit and vegetables, tested federally, and are sold here...
Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, a voluntary effort, is running by U.S., Australia, China and India to deal with climate change. Environment Minister of Canada Rona Ambrose is now looking for the efforts made by these...
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