Animal group calls for changes at Calgary zoo after elephant injures keeper

CALGARY – An animal advocacy group is calling for changes to how elephants are handled at the Calgary Zoo after a keeper was injured by an animal over the weekend.

Wandering bear cub to be set free

A black bear cub captured by conservation officers after wandering
around an East Vancouver neighbourhood on Saturday night will likely be
returned to the wild at the end of this week.

Green Living Blog: The challenge of going green

Today’s winner is Nancy Stepney of Edmonton.

Defining what is difficult about being green can be just those couple of changes we aren’t willing to make. At the beginning, remembering to recycle…

Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green

The environmental movement has never been short on noble goals. Preserving wild spaces, cleaning up the oceans, protecting watersheds, neutralizing acid rain, saving endangered species — all…

Organic farms take root in similkameen

FEAST OR FAMINE — SATURDAY, MAY 17

Eat your Wheaties, but hold the coffee

Eating low-sugar cereal may seem like the healthy choice but
drink a cup of coffee before breakfast and you might as well go for
the chocolate corn pops.

Game Consoles: No Consolation

Nintendo’s Wii. Sony’s PlayStation 3 Elite. Microsoft’s Xbox 360. They promise a whole new generation of high-definition gaming, but when it comes to the crunch, it’s the same old story. As our search for greener electronics continues, it was time for the game consoles to go to our labs for scientific analysis – and all of them tested positive for various hazardous chemicals.

“Reverse Evolution” Found in Seattle Fish

After years of hiding in pollution, fish in a Washington State lake may have “evolved in reverse” once the water cleared up, a study finds.

China Earthquake Buried 32 Radiation Sources

Video: Quake Survivor Buried a Week