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'Our country will vanish': Pacific islanders bring desperate message to Australia
“Like a drop of water in a bucket, on its own is small, but if there are many, many drops, soon it is overflowing.” Erietera Aram’s water...
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RCS Ottawa
May 10, 2017
Irish beach washed away 33 years ago reappears overnight after freak tide
Villagers express delight after entire beach that vanished in Achill Island storms in 1984 turns back sands of time. An Irish beach that...
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Apr 27, 2017
An Aurora Called 'Steve'? Strange Sky Phenomenon Investigated
Meet "Steve," a strange, new aurora feature discovered by citizen scientists and verified by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Swarm...
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Apr 20, 2017
A massive iceberg traveling south is photobombing a small Canadian fishing village
Watching icebergs floating by the eastern coast of Newfoundland is a time-honored tradition on one Canadian island in the North Atlantic....
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Apr 18, 2017
Receding glacier causes immense Canadian river to vanish in four days
An immense river that flowed from one of Canada’s largest glaciers vanished over the course of four days last year, scientists have...
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Apr 10, 2017
The UK’s electrical grid is so overrun with renewable power, it may pay wind farms to stop producing
Generating electricity from the sun and wind is great for the planet, but the infrastructure necessary to deal with these intermittent...
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Apr 8, 2017
Queen's Commonwealth Canopy Speech Available
On March 13, 2017, at the Commonwealth Luncheon held at Government House, Dr. John Innes presented a wonderful talk about the Queen's...
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Apr 7, 2017
Unusually large swarm of icebergs drifts into shipping lanes
More than 400 icebergs have drifted into the North Atlantic shipping lanes over the past week in an unusually large swarm for this early...
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Apr 7, 2017
Trees Have Their Own Songs
Just as birders can identify birds by their melodious calls, David George Haskell can distinguish trees by their sounds. The task is...
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Mar 28, 2017
Cyclone Debbie: 25,000 told to evacuate as Queensland storm forecast to be category four
About 25,000 people living in north Queensland have been told to evacuate, with fears Cyclone Debbie will bring a devastating tidal surge...
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Mar 16, 2017
The EU and Canada in a Changing World Order: Addressing Structural Changes in a World in Flux
The Centre for European Studies' Jean Monnet EU Centre of Excellence is pleased to invite you to attend a conference on "The EU and...
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Mar 16, 2017
Large Sections of Australia’s Great Reef Are Now Dead, Scientists Find
SYDNEY, Australia — The Great Barrier Reef in Australia has long been one of the world’s most magnificent natural wonders, so enormous it...
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Feb 9, 2017
Blackouts predicted for SA, NSW due to heat
A spike in electricity demand in South Australia and NSW on Friday as temperatures soar over 40 degrees could lead to blackouts. The...
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Jan 21, 2017
Villagers knit jumpers for Indian elephants to protect the large mammals from near-freezing temperat
Elephants in India are sporting colourful woollen jumpers after villagers knitted the super-size garments to protect the animals from...
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Dec 11, 2016
Arctic bear photos tells a story we can’t ignore "Nowhere to roam"
National Geographic photos tell a story of rapid change for the polar bear. Several of this year’s winning photos, such as glimpses of...
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Dec 11, 2016
1.1 million Africans displaced by environment change
Internal displacement across Africa is almost always attributed to civil strife or full-blown wars. But a new report from the Internal...
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Nov 3, 2016
UN: Huge Emissions Cuts Needed to Meet Paris Climate Goals
STOCKHOLM — The world is nowhere near on track to achieve the ambitious temperature goals adopted in the landmark Paris Agreement on...
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Nov 3, 2016
A new report shows that our efforts to fight global warming are paying off in the biggest way yet
There are many ways to measure our progress to mitigate global warming. One of the surest is to ask whether economic growth, which has...
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Nov 1, 2016
Commonwealth drives strategies to put climate change into reverse
Cities that mimic forests, bricks made from converted carbon dioxide and highways lined with wind turbines powered by traffic. These are...
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Nov 1, 2016
March of the desert
Very few places on Earth beat the Mediterranean as a holiday destination in the summer. That may all change within a few decades. By...
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