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 Clean your plate, save the world?Cleaning your plate may not help feed starving children today, but the time-worn advice of mothers everywhere may help reduce food waste from the farm to the fork, help the environment and make it easier to feed the world’s growing population.
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 Endangered whooping crane recovery suffers major setbackA major bi-national conservation effort linking the endangered whooping crane's Canadian breeding grounds to a new experimental colony in Louisiana has suffered a ``profound setback'' after what officials are calling the ``thoughtless'' killing of two of the 10 reintroduced birds - allegedly by a pair of teenagers firing gunshots from their truck along a Gulf Coast backroad.
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 Catch limits debated for 'most important fish in sea'A big fight is brewing in the United States over a little fish - a fish that no one wants to eat but that many regard as the most important in the sea.
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 EU greenhouse-gas emissions +2.4% in 2010: estimatesThe EU's greenhouse-gas emissions rose 2.4 per cent in 2010 over 2009 following the financial crisis, but the bloc remains on track for meeting Kyoto Protocol targets, figures released on Friday said.
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 Melting Arctic ice could nearly fill Lake Erie: StudyOver the six years Alex Gardner monitored Canada's Arctic glaciers and ice caps, he says they lost almost as much water as there is in Lake Erie.
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 Canadian political climate strangely cool on environment: Author and scientistBest-selling Australian author Tim Flannerym who is known as the "rock star" of modern science, is baffled to see Canada's election campaign side-stepping around climate change and environmental issues.
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 China carbon emissions could peak by 2025-2030: U.S.China, the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, could peak in emissions by 2030 or earlier, says a study from U.S. researchers who foresee Chinese demand for appliances, buildings and much industry reaching "saturation" around then.
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 African ocean current could boost Gulf Stream: studyAn ocean current that flows down the east coast of Africa could strengthen a circulation pattern that brings warmth to Europe, according to a new study that challenges existing climate science.
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 Massive ice island heads for Labrador SeaA massive iceberg that calved off the Petermann Glacier last August has taken nearly nine months to make its way from the northern part of Greenland to the northern part of Labrador.
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 Tornadoes whipped up by wind, not climate: officialsU.S. meteorologists warned Thursday it would be a mistake to blame climate change for a seeming increase in tornadoes in the wake of deadly storms that have ripped through the US south.
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 Climate change hardly visible here: Crop studyWhen your lawn scorches or the geraniums croak, it may be premature to blame global warming. One of the world's top science journals says climate hasn't changed in most of North America - yet.
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 Environment Canada predicts warm, dry summerA dark, cool and damp spring should give way to a summer that'll be warmer and dryer than normal, according to Environment Canada.
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 Seas could rise 1.6 metres by 2100, threatening coastsQuickening climate change in the Arctic including a thaw of Greenland's ice could raise world sea levels by up to 1.6 metres by 2100, an international report showed on Tuesday.
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 Reduce Arctic soot to prevent more warming, scientists urgeFires, diesel-burning power generators, trucks and ships — they've all got something in common: That's their ability to generate soot in the Arctic, which accounts for as much as 30 per cent of the warming in the region.
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 Where birds fly offers clues to manEach December a hardy flock of birdwatchers scatters across Mecklenburg County in North Carolina for the National Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count, which has tracked bird movements for more than a century.
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 Bluefin tuna endangered, experts sayCanada's top wildlife advisers say the Atlantic bluefin tuna - which has been known to fetch $1,000 per kilogram on sushi markets - is so overfished it should be listed as an endangered species.
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 Canada lone holdout in reporting greenhouse gas emissionsCanada has once again missed an international deadline for submitting an inventory of its greenhouse gas emissions to the United Nations.
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 Scientists plan to use sun to turn greenhouse gas into fuelUniversity of B.C. scientists are working to harness the sun's energy to power a process that converts the planet-threatening greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into a useful fuel.
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 Swiss solar aircraft makes first international flightPioneering Swiss solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse ambled over Europe into Belgium on Friday on its first international flight, with the pilot reporting that everything was running smoothly.
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 Report asks Ottawa to protect oceansCanada is falling badly behind other western countries in protecting its oceans, says a group of top Canadian marine scientists who are calling on the federal government to take action.
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 Climate study gets pulled over plagiarismEvidence of plagiarism and complaints about the peer-review process have led a statistics journal to retract a federally funded study that condemned scientific support for global warming.
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 Futurist warns of mass extinctionsThere is no doubt Earth is on the verge of disaster, as our fossil-fuelled civilization pushes the planet toward one of the greatest extinctions of the past 450 million years, economist and futurist Jeremy Rifkin said Monday.
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 Arctic storm unmatched in 1,000 years: scientistsAn Arctic storm that whipped up the Beaufort Sea with 70 kilometre per hour winds and sent sea water surging onto the low-lying Mackenzie Delta has not been matched in 1,000 years, scientists said Monday.
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 Study saying extinction rate of species overestimated causes stirA war of words is raging over a report that says species are not going to go extinct nearly as fast as predicted.
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 What bats, frogs can teach us all about our planetWhen the Canadian Society of Zoologists meets in Ottawa today, they're putting on a special public presentation to ask what's happening to our bats and frogs, and why we should care.
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