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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Canada's ice shelves lost 23% of their area this summer]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A 19-square-mile (50 sq km) chuck of ice shelf broke off from Canada's Ellesmere Island in the northern Arctic, reports the Associated Press.  The Manhattan-sized ice shelf is now adrift in the Arctic Ocean.  It is the largest of more than 83 sq mi (214 sq km) of ice shelf that has broken up in the Canadian Arctic this year.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[When in season, wolves choose salmon over deer]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The popular image of hunting wolves is a pack bearing down on a deer, working in concert to make the kill.  However, new research has discovered that when available, wolves largely forgo hoofed mammals for salmon. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ontario to preserve area of forest the size of Uganda]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The government of Ontario has announced it will preserve 56 million acres of boreal forest from all types of development.  The reasons for such a large conservation plan are numerous: preservation of the forest will benefit the world as a massive carbon storehouse; the area is a major source of freshwater; and home to over 200 species, many of which are threatened, such as polar bears, wolverines, and caribou.  The area will be open to eco-tourism, but will be closed to mining, logging, and gas exploration.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Beyond high food prices, little to show for $11B/yr in biofuel support, says OECD report]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Government support of biofuel production in rich countries is squandering vast amounts of amounts of money while exacerbating the global food crisis and failing to meaningfully curb greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy security, alleges a new report from the OECD, the club of industrialized nations.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0717-biofuels.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pine beetles attack Canada, boosting GHG emissions]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The mountain pine beetle, a small tree-devouring insect, has deforested an area of British Columbia the size of Louisiana &#8212; over 130,000 square kilometers. The 5 millimeter insect is a perfect tree-destroying machine. The beetles bore through the tree's bark to reach the phloem of the tree, which contains the tree's organic nutrients.  The beetles then feed on these nutrients and lay their eggs.  The trees defend themselves by secreting extra resin, but the beetles are often able to combat this by releasing a blue fungi.  In about two weeks time, the tree turns a tell-tale red and essentially starves to death.  The mountain pine beetles move on.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0710-hance_pine_beetles.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sea ice loss may triple warming over northern Alaska, Canada, and Russia]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Fast-declining Arctic sea-ice could spur rapid warming in northern Alaska, Canada, and Russia triggering thawing of permafrost and a release greenhouse gases from the frozen soils, reports a new study published in <I>Geophysical Research Letters</I>.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0611-arctic.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ocean acidification worse than expected, threatens sea life]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Increasing ocean acidification along the continental shelf of North America will likely have negative impacts on marine ecosystems, including the corrosion of calcium carbonate exoskeletons in many organisms, warn researchers writing in the journal <i>Science</i>.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0522-oceans.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New program pays Canadians for energy efficiency gains]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[As I write this article, CBS News is having a Sunday evening prime-time, hour long special on global warming. What is alarming is both the extent of how bad the situation is for the planet, the impact on wildlife (e.g . Polar Bear populations dwindling dangerously low due to reduced glaciers) and the alleged refusal of certain governments to acknowledge both that there is a fact based problem and that we are running out of time to reduce its effects on the air we breathe, our environments, our forests and its wildlife population.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0120-ecoenergy.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fish farms are killing wild salmon in British Columbia]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Parasitic sea lice infestations caused by salmon farms are driving nearby populations of wild salmon toward extinction, reports a study published in the December 14 issue of the journal Science.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1213-salmon_sea_lice.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Beetle droppings help forests recover from fire]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Armed with a pair of tweezers and a handful of beetle droppings, University of Alberta forestry graduate Tyler Cobb has discovered why the bug-sized dung is so important to areas ravaged by fire.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1204-beetles.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global warming will drive North American trees northward]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Climate change is expected to drive trees northward according to the most extensive and detailed study to date of North American tree species.  The research, published in the December 2007 issue of BioScience, reports that expected climate change this century could shift the ranges of 130 tree species northward by hundreds of miles (kilometers) and shrink their ranges by more than half.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1204-forests.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Drought hurts carbon sinks in North America]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A new system for tracking carbon uptake in North America, shows that deciduous forests along the East Coast (32 percent) and the boreal coniferous forests (22 percent) of northern Canada absorbed the bulk of carbon dioxide emissions between 2000 and 2005, but suggests that climate change may increasingly affect carbon sinks, according to research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1126-carbon_tracker.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Boreal forest fires important source of emissions]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Forest fires in the boreal forests of Canada are an important source of greenhouse gas emissions reports a new study published in the journal Nature.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1031-fires.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bears pressured by development in the Canadian Rockies]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The southern Canadian Rockies are still home to the most diverse assemblage of carnivores in North America, but a new report released today by the Wildlife conservation Society Canada (WCSC) says booming development there could threaten them without careful planning and the implementation of conservation safeguards.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1030-wcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Careless humanity batters the Arctic]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[I feel the need to say from the outset when I discuss topics such as Global-Warming that I am indeed a greenie of sorts, and I believe that the obvious downward spiral that our planet is taking is due to the careless attitudes towards the environment that the industrialized and predominantly white nations have taken over the past decades. I, as a note, am white, and have no qualms in pointing the finger at my own country (Australia) and others that we support, and that support us. In fact, I am ashamed to be one of the only two countries in the world not to have signed the Kyoto Protocol (the other, for reference, being the United States of America).]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0703-josh_hill-arctic.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Canada's boreal forest must be saved]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[At a conference Monday, 1500 prominent scientists called for protection of Canada's boreal forest, one of the largest intact forest and wetland ecosystems remaining on the planet.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0514-canada.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[To fight warming, Canada will ban incandescent light bulbs by 2012]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In an effort to fight greenhouse gas emissions, Canada plans to ban use of incandescent light bulbs by 2012, said Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn. Canada follows Australia as the second country to announce a ban on the inefficient bulbs. California legislators have proposed a similar ban for 2012. ]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0425-canada.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global warming could cause Canadian forests to absorb more carbon]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers say they have found links between seasonal temperature changes and the uptake and loss of carbon dioxide.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0219-boreal.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Carbon in Canada&#39;s boreal forest worth $3.7 trillion]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Carbon stored in Canada&#39;s boreal forests and peatlands is worth $3.7 trillion according to research by the Pembina Institute for the Canadian Boreal Initiative.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1125-cbi.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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