Canada's Environmental Voice
CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR Sherri Mason made a splash in 2012 when she and a crew of 20 graduate students from the State University of New York at Fredonia set sail on the Great Lakes in search of plastic. Aboard the Flagship Niagara, a wooden replica of a War of 1812 tall […]
Pointing to Polluters USA After a three-and-a-half-year study, researchers at the University of Georgia determined that between 4.8 and 12.7 million tonnes of plastic trash flowed into the world’s oceans in 2010 from 192 coastal countries.
If recent crises in Ukraine and Gaza are any indication of how our global thirst for energy is destabilizing the world order, then Ezra Levant – author of Groundswell: The Case for Fracking – has got it right. Levant astutely allocates an entire chapter to Russia’s Gazprom in “How the Shale Gas Revolution Weakens […]
Psychologist Elizabeth Nisbet explains why greenery takes away the blues. MUCH OF OUR discourse around environmental issues involves hazards like air and water pollution, deforestation, species extinction or the looming consequences of global climate change. Rarely do we ponder the importance of protecting the natural environment as a mental health resource.
SUCCESSFUL Initiatives in Ontario and elsewhere to ban or restrict a variety of toxic chemicals shouldn’t invite complacency. Numerous compounds linked to a wide range of negative health effects remain in use, appearing in thousands of everyday products. Here are five active campaigns targeting toxics in Canada and around the […]
Dr. Linda Harvey says nuclear power is dangerous every day, not just when disaster strikes. Any form of electric power could be considered clean and green if you only look at what happens after it enters the grid for distribution. Nuclear power is often afforded this privilege. Reasons for this are partly […]
Dr. John O’Connor warned of possible links between tar sands and his patients’ poor health. He was pilloried. He’d do it again. January 3, 2006, is a day I will never forget. It was the day a CBC reporter called to ask me about health concerns in Fort Chipewyan, the […]
“Do you see those mounds of plastic?” our guide asks. “Each one was a cow.” Jitu Solanki is a wildlife expert working on his PhD in Zoology. He also leads wildlife tours from the guesthouse in Bikaner, Rajasthan (India’s largest state), with his wife, Puja. He can always guarantee you […]
It seems clear that capitalism as currently practiced contributes to the planet’s destruction but Daniel Tanuro – who calls himself a “qualified agricultural engineer and a Marxist” – wants to go further and argue that capitalism in any form (present or future) would lay waste to nature. The subtitle of […]
Habitat. It is what species need to survive; there are no two ways about it. Yet, as forests continue to be felled, wetlands drained, rivers dammed and grasslands ploughed under, wildlife habitat is disappearing.
