COM Reading Bank: Environmental Issues

Keywords: Environmental issues
Format: Infographic
Source: Business Today

Keywords: Environmental Issues
Format: Article
Source: Brookings.edu

Keywords: Environmental issues
Format: Video
Source:Marketplace, CBC
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Keywords: Environmental Issues, Health & Wellness
Format: Article
Source: BBC

Keywords: Environmental Issues
Format: Article
Source: The Guardian

Keywords: Environmental Issues, Science & Ethics
Format: Article
Source: BBC

Excerpt / Summary:
In an interview with KSNV in Las Vegas, Pruitt conceded that climate change is a reality and humans have contributed to it "to a certain degree." However, the EPA administrator cast doubt on its negative long-term implications.

Keywords: Environment
Format: Article
Source: CNN

Keywords: Environmental issues
Format: Article
Source: The Walrus

Keywords: Environmental Issues, Science & Ethics
Format: Newspaper Article
Source: National Post

Keyword: Education, Society and Culture, and Environmental Issues
Format: Article
Source: Brookings.edu

Keywords: Environmental Issues
Format: Article
Source: The Globe and Mail

Excerpt / Summary:
An online poll by Abacus Data found that 30 per cent of Canadians do not believe in the science of climate change and 42 per cent said the incoming carbon tax isn't designed to change behaviour but rather to generate revenue for the government. (CBC)

Keywords: Environment
Format: Article
Source: CBC News
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Keywords: Indigenous Issues; Environmental Issues; Economic Issues
Format: Article
Source: The Conversation

Keywords: Environmental Issues
Format: Article
Source: The Guardian

Excerpt / Summary:
Scientists say climate targets cannot be met using the technologies, which either risk huge damage to the environment or are very costly

Keywords: Environment
Format: Article
Source: The Guardian

Keywords: Indigenous Issues;Environmental Issues;Canadian Content
Format: Article
Source: The New York Times

Excerpt / Summary:
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic Circle—also known as the "doomsday vault" safeguarding the world's most diverse collection of seeds—now holds 1,059,646 unique crop varieties after receiving more than 70,000 samples on Monday.

Keywords: Environment
Format: Article
Source: EcoWatch

Excerpt / Summary:
The once-ubiquitous plastic bag has quickly become an environmental bogeyman in Canada. Earlier this month, citing concerns over litter and landfill, Toronto launched the country’s first municipal bylaw requiring all stores to charge a five cents per bag fee to discourage their use. Several retail chains—including Home Depot and Canada’s largest grocer, Loblaw Co. Ltd.—have taken the fee nationwide. Emboldened by the speed with which this policy has moved, environmental groups are now talking of the day when plastic bags will seem as repellant as in-flight smoking sections.

Keywords: Environment
Format: Article
Source: Maclean's

Keywords: Environmental Issues
Format: Article
Source: The Toronto Star

Excerpt / Summary:
"There are still healthy reefs, and even after they have been bleached they can recover — but only until the next time that sea temperatures rise beyond their tolerance range. Half of the world’s coral reefs are already gone, and the destruction continues relentlessly. The northern 750 kilometres of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef were largely killed by heat stress last year. Global warming will kill almost all of the world’s coral reefs by 2050.

Prof. Madeleine van Oppen’s work at the Australian Institute of Marine Science and the University of Melbourne is therefore good news. Her team is trying to breed hybrid coral animals and algae that can withstand higher temperatures."

Keywords: Environment
Format: Article
Source: Merritt Herald
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Excerpt / Summary:
Should we become vegetarians? Is it OK to fly? The author of There Is No Planet B, A Handbook for the Make or Break Years, answers the big questions

Keywords:
Format: Article
Source: The Guardian

Keywords: Health; Nature & environmental issues
Format: Article
Source: The Walrus

Keywords: Canadian Content, Environmental Issues, Society & Culture
Format: Newspaper Article
Source: The Globe and Mail

Keyword: Environmental Issues
Format: Article
Source: The New York Times

Keywords: Nature; Society & culture
Format: Article
Source: Hazlitt

Excerpt / Summary:
Booker prize-winning author predicts climate reality will not be far from scenarios imagined in her post-apocalyptic fiction

Keywords: Environment
Format: Article
Source: The Guardian