Residences and camping threatened by erosion of the banks in Montmagny
“We are experiencing climate change,” deplores the mayor of Montmagny, observing the waves of the St. Lawrence River increasingly chipping away at the shores of the territory. Bernard Boulet made it…
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Stop Ontario Parks Backcountry Camping Fee Changes For 2021
Sign the Petition: http://chng.it/8kLdx9DKtG Summary of backcountry fees for 2021: https://www.ontarioparks.com/fees/bac… 2020 thread on MyCCR: https://www.myccr.com/phpbbforum/view… 2021 thread on MyCCR: https://www.myccr.com/phpbbforum/view… GOVERNMENT POLICYMAKERS TO EMAIL: Minister of the Environment, Conservation…
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Is lavender oil an endocrine disruptor?
The origin of the rumor In 2017, the French magazine 60 Million Consumers warned its readers against the use of this essential oil and that of the tea tree ( Melaleuca alternifolia) – both…
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New climate models point to + 5°C Change
In 1896, the Swede Svante Arrhenius estimated that a doubling of the CO2 content of the atmosphere would increase temperatures by around 5-6 ° C depending on the latitude. This hypothesis…
Read more » Alberta Parks Doesn’t Want You Selling Your Reservation
With summer quickly approaching provincial parks are seeing a huge rise in reservations this year. According to Alberta Parks, some 27,000 campsite reservations were made over 24 hours. And now…
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Whitehorse takes -50 ° C for extreme cold warning
Temperatures below -40 ° C on Monday and Tuesday gripped the inhabitants of the Yukon capital so far accustomed to a rather mild winter. As always, social networks were quickly…
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Is Oumuamua an extraterrestrial vessel?
Avi Loeb, a prominent astrophysicist and director of Harvard’s Astronomy Unit, recently said that our solar system was visited by an alien vessel. Information that electrified all the press. It refers…
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K2: many dropouts and uncertainty near the top!
On the K2, many retirements overnight and uncertain news for some climbers who could still advance to the top. The clock is ticking. Tomorrow, the weather conditions will be unlivable on the…
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Seals will kill cod by 2050: Study Finds
Cod could disappear completely from certain areas of the Gulf of St. Lawrence by 2050. Already weakened by overfishing, populations are struggling to recover because of the proliferation of one…
Read more »Oil sands development disrupts wildlife health: report:
In northeastern Alberta, near the oil industry, researchers report lower reproductive rates, modified sex organs and the presence of rat poison in many of the specimens tested. Pekan, marten, muskrat,…
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