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The GHG Spot: Coughing up ozone

Got a tickle in your throat? That may be more than just a cold coming on, according to a new report by the National Research Council…>

CRITIC’S CHOICE

Frontline: Storm Over Everest PBS, 9 p.m.

Canada could make Kyoto strides with carbon capture

Canada has been talking fast but moving slowly to promote a
technology that could help it get out of the environmental doghouse.

Northern towns gang up on carbon tax

Dozens of northern B.C. communities challenged Premier Gordon Campbell’s groundbreaking carbon tax yesterday by backing a resolution that says the levy is unfair to northerners.About 140 voting…

Environment driving plant proposal: analyst

Alberta is likely still the best bet for Western Canada’s
first nuclear reactor even as a private nuclear operator eyes
Saskatchewan and its western neighbour as potential locations, says
a…

Hazardous waste collection set

The city will collect household hazardous waste this
Saturday.

Rare flower takes gardener by surprise

Milko Jadresko has spent 45 years tending to gardens and
lawns around Victoria, but he’s never seen a plant quite like the
one that appeared suddenly in his own backyard.

Sea lions were not shot, fisheries officials say

PORTLAND — Backing away from earlier suggestions that six
sea lions were brazenly gunned down at Bonneville Dam on the
weekend, federal fisheries officials said Wednesday they do not know
how the…

Environment Ministry set to face public over Pottersburg Creek PCBs – LondonTopic.ca

Environment Ministry set to face public over Pottersburg Creek PCBs
LondonTopic.ca, Canada - 7 hours ago
The Ontario Ministry of the Environment is set to face the public Friday (May 9) to address…

Pick your theme song!

As convocation is a few weeks away for some of us, I was joking with a friend if they will play Pomp & Circumstance in the Chan. Then the conversation dissolved into naming bizarre theme songs for the ceremony. Here are some honourable mentionables…