Jake Bleiberg
Air Pollution Kills 5.5 Million People a Year — Over Half of Them in China, India
Despite measures to cut back on air pollution from power plants, transportation, and manufacturing in rich nations, researchers project that the number of premature deaths due to air pollution will continue to rise.
America Keeps Telling Canada That Polar Bears Are Going Extinct; Canada Disagrees
Washington's push to classify polar bears as approaching extinction, and end Canada's polar bear fur trade in the process, is being met with opposition from Canada's northern communities.
The Train Derailment That Gushed Oil Into A Quebec River Has Spawned Freaky Fish
The rate of deformity is ten times higher than the average. Scientists are not surprised.
Climate Agreement Says Airlines Must Reduce Emissions — Just Not Very Much
Boeing calls the deal ambitious — but environmentalists say the new rules amount to greenwashing because they don't force airlines to do more than they are already doing.
Here's Why Polar Bears' Summer Just Got a Bit Worse
The National Snow and Ice Data Center says there was 35,000 square miles less sea ice in the Arctic last month than any January on record — and that's one step closer to an ice-free summer at the North Pole.
Congress Will Look at Flint's Water Crisis — But They Won't Hear From Several Key Figures
A committee in the US House of Representatives is set to delve into what caused Flint, Michigan's mostly African-American population to be exposed to lead-tainted drinking water — and why state and federal officials were so slow to respond.
'War of the Woods’ Over a Massive Canadian Rainforest Ends With a Peace Agreement
In the 1990s, only five per cent of the Great Bear Rainforest was protected from logging. Now, after a boycott campaign, it's 85 per cent.
The Environmental Protection Agency Says Fracking Is Safe — But Its Scientific Advisors Disagree
In June, the agency said that the drilling technique had no “widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water,” but scientists say it omitted case studies from Pennsylvania, Wyoming, and Texas, where water contamination may have occurred.
A $36 Billion Trans-Pacific Natural Gas Deal May Have Met Its Match: Canadian Salmon
A massive natural gas project might find itself in trouble as First Nations fight to protect wild salmon habitats off the coast of British Columbia
Yes, Actually, Global Warming Probably Helped Supersize This Weekend's Blizzard
The storm left over 30 people dead, flooded coastal communities worse than Hurricane Sandy, and grounded thousands of flights — and climate scientists say it is consistent with how climate change is expected to intensify winter storms.
Here's How Police in Canada Are Becoming More Militarized
By May, the Toronto Police Service, Canada’s largest municipal force, will begin arming regular officers with a semi-automatic rifle, the C8 Carbine, placing them in one patrol car in each of the cities’ 17 divisions.
Mom of Burkina Faso Terror Victim Is 'Revolted' by Trudeau's Plan to Stop Bombing the Islamic State
Six Canadians were killed on an assault on the capital of Burkina Faso that claimed 29 lives. The family of four and two friends, all from the province of Quebec, were on a humanitarian mission.