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It’s hard to escape it in the Middle East–loads of garbage lining the streets, blowing across the desert, and covering the beaches. I was surprised at how shocked and outraged I was the first time I saw people casually throwing large bags and empty bottles out their car windows

Few activities that affect climate change can be potentially altered as easily as engine idling. Having motorists turn their engines off when parked and waiting in their vehicle reduces not only C02 emissions, but also emissions that impact local air quality.

Millions of litres of harmful contaminants — including sewage and jet fuel — have been spilled across great swaths of Canada's pristine Arctic in recent years,

Among the natural treasures at risk from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the Breton National Wildlife Refuge, created by Theodore Roosevelt to halt a grave threat to birds in his era — the lucrative trade in plumage. Now, oil from the BP spill is starting to wash up on beaches where Roosevelt once walked.

Researchers are warning of a new blight on the ocean: a swirl of confetti-like plastic debris stretching over thousands of square miles (kilometres) in a remote expanse of the Atlantic Ocean.

To mark tomorrow’s Bottled Water Free Day, Collège Boréal has unveiled new initiatives intended to reduce the use of bottled water and plastic bottles on its campuses. These are priority measures in Collège Boréal’s new strategic plan that focuses on sustainable and environmentally friendly development.

On Wednesday, Minneapolis's Star Tribune published an op-ed by Mike Richter, in which the retired hockey star speaks out against oil-sands mining in Alberta.

Premier Jean Charest maintains he can do nothing to protect workers in India who are exposed to the health risks of asbestos that's mined from Quebec.

The currents tend to force any floating material into the low energy central area of the gyre. There are few islands on which the floating material can beach. So it stays there in the gyre, in astounding quantities estimated at six kilos of plastic for every kilo of naturally occurring plankton.

(A) report revealed to us that Sudbury had a poor record for discharging of under-treated sewage bypasses to the natural environment,” said Perry Sarvas, president of the Simon Lake community stewardship group. “Simon Lake is part of lower Junction Creek and we are directly downstream of much of these discharges.”

Her youngest son has scabs on his arms, legs and chest where the bathwater — polluted with lead, nickel and other heavy metals — caused painful rashes. Many of his brother’s teeth were capped to replace enamel that was eaten away.

A newly published book about Minamata disease has revealed, possibly for the first time to Canadians, that former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau personally interfered with the publication of one or more studies concerning the mercury problem at Grassy Narrows.

What looked like a winter wonderland was actually lime sprayed on tailings to neutralize the acid content. An estimated 800,000 litres of lime has been used to date.
"Every time it rains, the water picks up acid from the tailings," said Dave Bucar, project manager