Climate Change
- Federal report scorns Harper's climate-change plan
- Melting of Arctic sea ice shatters record
- Ford, California utility team up on hybrid car testing
- Ford Motor Co. and the power company Southern California Edison will team up to test rechargeable hybrid vehicles in an effort to speed up mass production of the new technology.
- Gore, Live Earth musicians urge environmental action
- The Police closed the Live Earth concert series in the U.S. Saturday night with their hit song Message in a Bottle, featuring a cameo by Kanye West repeating the lyric "Sending out an S.O.S." and adding the declaration "We can save the world!"
- Sun did not cause recent climate change: U.K. study
- Solar panels installed at city pools
- The city of Toronto hopes solar panels unveiled Friday at three swimming pools will showcase the benefits of going green.
- Federal money supports 19 new green technologies
- A federal agency is giving $48 million in grants to projects that range from a self-erecting wind-turbine tower to a biosensor that can test water for as many as 100 pathogens in less than 30 minutes.
- Global warming blamed for vanishing Chilean lake
- Scientists are blaming global warming for the disappearance of a glacial lake in remote southern Chile that faded away in just two months, leaving just a crater behind.
- Alberta aiming for carbon trading
- Alberta is inching towards opening a market for carbon trading, a means for big greenhouse gas emitters to meet the provincial government's requirement to become more efficient.
- Montreal's air quality improved greatly, city says
- The City of Montreal says air quality on the island improved significantly in 2006, crediting new measures including a bylaw that limits idling cars.