Transportation accounts for almost one-quarter of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada. In Metro Vancouver, around 40% of emissions are from transportation.
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A decade of New York City fire data shows that citywide trends can mask sharply different realities on the ground, with some neighborhoods moving in the opposite direction of the city as a whole.
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Oct 1, 2026
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Corporate uniforms, advertising banners and industrial technical fabrics almost always end up in landfills at the end of their "life cycles," even when they are still in good condition. To address this issue, Ciclou, a startup ...
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Oct 1, 2026
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Ice cores recovered from an ice cap in northwestern Tibet appear to preserve fragments of ancient ice from the last ice age, extending Earth's glacial record by more than 100,000 years and making them the oldest ice cores ...
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Sep 30, 2026
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Irrigation canals form a sort of circulatory system for global agriculture. Across the world, millions of kilometers of human-made canals carry water from lakes, rivers and reservoirs downhill to farmland. Canals are vitally ...
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Sep 30, 2026
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A few days of rain do not change low groundwater levels after a long drought. To better determine how groundwater systems recover after a drought and which groundwater reserves are most vulnerable, hydrologist Sandra Hauswirth ...
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Sep 30, 2026
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Switzerland's glaciers lost more than 5% of their ice volume in 2026. Although melt rates did not quite reach the record levels of 2022, glacier thickness decreased by an average of 2.5 to 4 meters (8 to 13 feet) this year, ...
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Sep 30, 2026
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The longer it takes to transition away from fossil fuels such as coal, the more costs accrue as climate change accelerates.
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Sep 30, 2026
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Many cities around the world are sinking because too much water is extracted from the groundwater reservoirs beneath them. This sinking makes these coastal cities more exposed to rising seas as the climate warms. But as our ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 30, 2026
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Heat waves and wildfires combined with human-caused emissions this year to expose one-third of the world's population to extremely high levels of ozone pollution, a European Union report said Wednesday.
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Sep 30, 2026
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