BC Climate Change Letter
January 4th, 2012 by Alison Wheatley in General
One major environmental issue left over from 2011 is that Canada stepped out of the Kyoto Protocol. This might lead people to move ahead without the federal government, and handle the related climate change issues on a more local level. According to the David Suzuki Foundation, in December 85 British Columbia business leade...
May 5th, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in General
A report to be presented next week at the 7th Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program is the latest evidence in...
Tags: Arctic, Climate Change
April 28th, 2011 by Racquel Foran in General
Do you ever look up at the night sky and wonder what information the satellites flickering above are capturing and how it is used?
It was announced on April ...
Tags: Climate Change, environmental, NASA, satellite
April 13th, 2011 by Michelle Ly in General
In recent months, whether due to unrest in oil-producing countries, new revelations in the climate change sphere, or the itchy fingers of nervous traders, No...
Tags: Climate Change, dependency, oil
March 22nd, 2011 by Alison Wheatley and Susie Hill in General
Cooperation is key when it comes to conservation. That is why the Alaskan Department of Fish and Game has teamed up with the US Fish & Wildlife Servic...
Turtle Trouble
March 3rd, 2011 by Susie Hill in Endangered Species
Trouble is brewing for turtle populations worldwide. A new report from The Turtle Conservation Coalition reveals that over 25 of the world’s known 328 species are currently endangered. The TCC endangered list was expanded to over 25 species for the fi...
Tags: Climate Change, endangered, habitat loss, invasive, turtles
Science Mends Fences
February 21st, 2011 by Susie Hill in Conservation
The U.S. Forest Service is taking steps to mend fences with industry and conservation groups while addressing climate change.
Many forestry projects are stalled or stopped completely each year due to court battles and clashes between logging and protection groups. These roadblocks need to st...
Tags: Climate Change, forest, forestry, science, U.S. Forest Service
Palm Oil News
February 17th, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in General
As forests around the world are destroyed to make way for palm oil plantations, any good conservation news seems like a ray of sunshine. Singapore-based Golden Agri-Resources has announced that it will work with the Indonesian government and green gr...
Clean Energy, Not Climate Change
January 31st, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in Climate Change
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has decided to focus on clean energy rather than on climate change, reports the Guardian.
Ban Ki-moon will still be involved with international climate change negotiations, and recently called on the world’s major powers to stop playing politics ...
Tags: Cancun, clean energy, Climate Change, Copenhagen, UN
New Arctic Conservation Area
December 20th, 2010 by Maryam Fejvai in Climate Change
Just days before the United Nations climate change meetings in Cancun Mexico, the Canadian federal government announced a plan to designate an area north of Nunavut’s Baffin Island as a marine conservation area, reports The Globe & Mail. This are...
Real Climate Stories
December 14th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Climate Change
Conservation does better when people understand the situation. As Connie Hedegaard, the European commissioner for climate action, recently said in Cancun, the use of jargon such as LDCs, MRV, ICA does not help, writes AlertNet. The key is in taking conserva...
Tags: Cancun, Climate Change, Conservation, greenhouse gas
Endangered Ecosystems Mapping
December 13th, 2010 by Susie Hill in Conservation
Scientists are in the midst of creating a strategy that will help us to better understand and map threatened ecosystems. An international working group of biologists and conservation experts from the IUCN has been developing a ‘red list’ system to...
Tags: Climate Change, Conservation, ecosystem, IUCN, Red List
Conservation Agriculture
December 6th, 2010 by Susie Hill in Conservation
A recent study published in the Trocaire Development Review focuses on three semi-arid districts in Zimbabwe in order to demonstrate the positive effects of conservation agriculture on farmers in developing countries.
Conservation agriculture has bee...
Tags: agriculture, Climate Change, Conservation, farm, sustainable, water
30 Ways in 30 Days
November 3rd, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Climate Change
The UN Environment Program (UNEP) has launched a “30 ways in 30 days” program, in which successful climate change prevention case studies will be presented that can be copied around the world.
UNEP’s projects include green passports for sustainabl...
Tags: 30 ways in 30 days, Climate Change, energy, hydropower, tea, UNEP
Energy Awareness
October 4th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Climate Change
October is Energy Awareness Month, and this year’s theme is POWERING AMERICA; We’re On Target, writes the Federal Energy Management Program of the U.S. Department of Energy.
There are some positive signs in energy conservation. Investments in c...
