Archive for May 19th, 2008
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 17Eat 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
| As the death toll soared past 40,000, state media reported that radioactive materials from hospitals, factories, or research labs buried by debris have been recovered or cordoned off. |
Video: Quake Survivor Buried a Week
| China TV showed a man being rescued after spending about a week in rubble following the magnitude 8.0 earthquake that struck Sichuan Province May 12. |
