British Columbia's dirty natural gas secret

Three LNG projects in Squamish and Kitimat would require over 13,000 new fracking wells over the next 30 years between them. While industry and government tout this brand new fossil fuel industry as the 'cleanest LNG in the world' there’s little talk of the explosion in fracking operations it would bring.

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Breathing Polluted Air is Like Smoking a Pack a Day

It turns out you don't need to smoke for a lifetime to get emphysema. Just breathing polluted air can give it to you, according to a new study.

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Scientists confirm July set new global heat record

BERLIN (AP) — Meteorologists say July was the hottest month measured on Earth since records began in 1880.

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Plastics In Rainwater, Plastics In Snow, Plastics In Our Food, Plastics Everywhere

New research finds micro-plastic particles in everything from Arctic sea ice to snow in the Alps to rain in the Rockies. There is almost no research about the health effects of micro-plastics on humans.

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Lightning struck near the North Pole 48 times. It's not normal.

A warmer Arctic in general provided the fuel for lightning-producing thunderheads to move north.

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Google Timelapse

Explore the dynamics of our changing planet over the past three and a half decades.Google Earth time lapses, from 1984 to 2018.You can watch deforestation in the Amazon, glaciers disappearing, rapid city expansion.

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Fracking in U.S. and Canada linked to worldwide atmospheric methane spike

"The commercialization of shale gas and oil in the 21st century has dramatically increased global methane emissions", said the scientist behind the study.

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