Tag: environment

Paris has loomed large in my mind the past few months. In Paris, on Nov. 30, the COP21 climate talks will convene. These talks must succeed. If they do not then we do not have a snowball’s hope in hell of avoiding the worst, most catastrophic effects of climate change.

Canadian scientists are concerned with the rapid decline of the giraffe population in Africa. Stopping the threat of extinction has proven to be difficult...

Over the past several years discussion about Canada’s energy policy has largely centred around the Alberta tar sands, with people asking how to deal with them. For Gordon Laxer there’s a much more interesting question to answer: what comes after the sands?

Researchers from the Flinders University of South Australia have developed a simple and cheap substance that may make cleaning up mercury pollution a whole...

To live is to eat. In this feature the Manitoban explores the conventional food system and looks at some alternatives to it. Some experts have...