Ethically sound

Foul water

A palliative gesture

COP15 CBD: Disclose biodiversity impact, address harmful subsidies, urges EU

Bulk of financial resources for implementation of targets needs to come domestically, says European Commission

Warming Arctic is making winter worse for eastern US; ‘bomb cyclone’ on cards

The US is bracing for an intense storm, which is expected to blast the entire east coast with frigid winds, ice and snow on Thursday

World’s first carbon capture coal plant opens in Canada

It aims to make coal ‘a viable technical, environmental and economic case for continued use’. But should that be an aim?

Poor health to food insecurity

Not only low income levels, but also adults suffering from chronic diseases adversely impact a household’s food security

Rising greenhouse gases

White death

Threat of a retardant

Highest level of toxic pbde found in Virginia fish

How climate change is messing up the ocean’s biological clock, with unknown long-term consequences

Phytoplankton blooms are, in some aspects, metronomes of the annual oceanic cycles around which many species’ biological clocks are synced …

Apocalyptic skies: Canadian wildfires posing huge health risks

Estimated 115 million people impacted; health dangers shocking indictment of failures over climate change, says Amnesty International

‘Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework must feature role of indigenous people’

Members of International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity stress their rights at biodiversity summit in Montreal

Glaciers in western Canada to lose 70 per cent volume by 2100: study

Runoff from the melting ice will peak between 2020 and 2040

Smart farming

How to improve yield in organic farming

Afforestation not so cool

Planting trees will not reduce global warming, says study

GUIENA

N-plant weeded out

The snag-ridden past of Rajasthan Atomic Power Station's unit-I may have caught up with it

Wheaticide

Herbicide promotes toxic fungi

Bytes

Doctor who blocked thalidomide from release in the US dies at 101

Frances Oldham Kelsey had recently been appointed to the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest honours

Virtual reality

A new computing laboratory can project larger than real life images of human body's smallest part

The foetal consequences of pollution

In Court

The ‘good fire’: Prescribed burning can prevent catastrophic wildfires in the future

Building a culture where fire is respected rather than feared is essential to maintain resilient landscapes