Global warming means trapped microplastics will be released from Arctic sea ice
Huge amounts of microplastics trapped within Arctic sea ice will be released into the world’s oceans with global warming, researchers have warned. The Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany found 12,000...
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Teen who started Oregon wildfire ordered to pay $37 million restitution by judge
HOOD RIVER, Ore. — A teenager who started a major wildfire in the scenic Columbia River Gorge in Oregon has been ordered to pay restitution for at least the next decade, though it’s unlikely the boy...
View ArticleEvacuation alerts issued for 51 B.C. residents as two wildfires burn out of...
KAMLOOPS, B.C. — More than a dozen residents in British Columbia’s southern Interior have been asked to evacuate their homes, as the 2018 wildfire season makes an aggressive start with two large...
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Antarctic ice loss has tripled in a decade. If that continues, we are in...
Antarctica’s ice sheet is melting at rapidly increasing rate, now pouring more than 200 billion tons of ice into the ocean annually and raising sea levels a half millimeter every year, a team of 80...
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Researchers deliberately spill oil into lakes to study impact on ecosystem
KENORA, Ont. — Researchers were in northwestern Ontario over the weekend spilling diluted oilsands bitumen and crude oil into a lake to study how the ecosystem, from microbes to fish, responds. The...
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John Muir’s ‘forest masterpiece’ is back on display as Yosemite opens doors...
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — John Muir, the naturalist who was most at home sleeping outdoors on a bed of pine needles in the Sierra Nevada, called giant sequoias the “noblest of God’s trees.” For...
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