from Larry Herr, Oro-Medonte A young 16-year-old science student from our own Oro-Medonte Township, Maya Burhanpurkar, has produced an excellent 36 minute documentary on global warming, called 400ppm. This title refers to the current concentration of 4...

See also Lake Simcoe Living article From Change.org Simcoe County Planning Department 1110 Hwy 26 Midhurst, On, L0L 1X0 Dear Mr. Kingsbury: As you know, Simcoe County planning staff is now reviewing Ramara OPA 18 for Strawberry Island. Since a deputati...

By Finlay Duncan Birdlife International Birds are among the best studied species in the world, making them great messengers for the effects of climate change. As world leaders gather in Paris to negotiate a global climate change agreement at the UN COP...

Join us for a free workshop for municipal staff from Sustainable Severn Sound Sustainable Severn Sound, in partnership with the Ontario Invasive Plant Council (OIPC) and with funding support from the Invasive Species Centre, is hosting a discussion on ...

By Debora Van Brenk, The London Free Press The federal environment minister has put off for three months the hot-button decision about whether a nuclear waste vault can be built beneath the shores of Lake Huron near Kincardine. Activists lobbying again...

One of the first of many projects to use Ontario Health Study data now published Ontario Health Study Newsletter This article originally appeared in the October 2015 issue of Hospital News Trees provide us with shade and help to clean the air, but new ...

By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun The Niagara Escarpment Commission has thrown up a roadblock to a plan to upgrade the road network around County Road 91. At the NEC’s Nov. 19 meeting, commissioners went against the advice of their planner and said no to Clearvi...

From Sierra Club Canada Foundation Eleven of Canada’s 13 provincial and territorial premiers were in Ottawa Monday for a climate science briefing and four-hour working dinner with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The First Ministers received the briefing...

Unfair chase: The spring bear hunt is bad policy founded on bad science The Ontario government is proposing a five-year extension of the spring bear hunt across 88 of the province’s Wildlife Management Units,  including some in Simcoe County. From Onta...

By Kate Harries AWARE News Network Simcoe County councillors voted yesterday to collect $5,000 in legal costs from AWARE Simcoe in the Beeton Woods case. Mayor Rick Milne of New Tecumseth, where the woodland that is to be clearcut is located, urged his...