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John Kerry fighting a different Cold War as Arctic Council meets

Kiruna - Secretary of State John Kerry was engaged in a different type of Cold War last week as he met with representatives of nations bordering the Arctic at the conclusion of Sweden’s two year chairmanship of the Arctic Council.

In the Media by Robert Myles - 2 comments

Harper: Oil shipped by rail riskier than relatively safe pipeline

New York - President Obama is nearing a decision on the XL Keystone pipeline. Opposition has been growing and environmentalists expect the president to put his money where his mouth is. Canada's PM Stephen Harper says that all the facts support the pipeline.

In the Media by Karl Gotthardt - 8 comments

Study shows consensus among scientists about climate change

A new study has found that although 33 percent of Americans believe there is "widespread disagreement" among scientists that climate change is happening, there is an overwhelming consensus among environment researchers that it is happening.

In the Media by JohnThomas Didymus - 12 comments

Could climate change bring malaria to the UK?

Epidemiologists are calling on the government to take action against the growing threat that mosquito-borne diseases, including potentially fatal malaria, could soon arrive in the UK.

In the Media by Tim Sandle - 5 comments

Study: Christian end-time beliefs block climate change control

A study claims that successive US administrations have failed to take aggressive policy action to curb climate change partly because a large number of Americans take a fatalistic stance on the future of the planet informed by religious doctrine.

In the Media by JohnThomas Didymus - 13 comments

Flood of Noah proves climate change is not man made

Republican congressman Joe Barton of Texas has stated that the Biblical flood of Noah was proof that climate change was not man made.

In the Media by Sami Zaatari

Op-Ed: Keystone Pipeline — Is Alison Redford flogging a dead horse?

Edmonton - Alison Redford is on her way to Washington this week amid fierce opposition to the Keystone pipeline project. Redford says she will inform US legislators on Alberta's environmental initiatives on both sides of the issue. Is she flogging a dead horse?

In the Media by Karl Gotthardt - 13 comments

Scottish mowing event cancelled due to lack of grass

But behind the headline lies a tale of the severe effects the prolonged cold spell, which has gripped north west Europe, is having on farmers' crops and livestock all the way from Scotland to the south of France.

In the Media by Robert Myles - 4 comments

Scientists argue reasons for Antarctic sea ice expansion

With records going back to 1979, there is little dispute that Arctic ice is in retreat but up till now scientists have had difficulty in reconciling an expansion of Antarctic sea ice with global warming.

In the Media by Robert Myles - 10 comments

Review: ‘Global Insanity’ by James A. Coffman and Donald C. Mikulecky Special

'Sanitas' is Latin for health, note the authors of ‘Global Insanity: How Homo sapiens Lost Touch with Reality while Transforming the World.’ Like health, sanity entails balance. As a society with severe power imbalances, we may be literally insane.

Digital Journal Report by Victoria N. Alexander - 3 comments

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From left to right, Ashley Ballantyne of the University of Colorado at Boulder, Dara Finney of Environment Canada and Natalia Rybczynski of the Canadian Museum of Nature search for fossils in a peat deposit at Strathcona Fiord on Ellesmere Island in Canada's High Arctic.

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