Environmental groups set sights on Canadian premiers
Environmentalists are giving up hope in the federal Canadian government and are now focusing on the provinces to forge a strategy that would embrace renewable energy and tackle climate change. Several groups are heading to Halifax this week in a show of force as the premiers meet to add heft to a pan-Canadian energy strategy at their annual get-together. Some environmental groups allied themselves with organized labour to take out advertising and lobby premiers to make sure energy talks include climate change, emissions reductions and investment in renewable energy.
Bacteria outbreak in Northern Europe due to ocean warming, study says
Paper provides evidence that warming patterns of Baltic Sea have coincided with emergence of Vibrio infections.
Environment Ministry Targets Plantation Firms Accused of Sumatra Forest Clearing
The Environment Ministry is investigating eight plantation companies in Sumatra for allegedly clearing nearly 4,000 hectares of forest using slash-and-burn methods.
