By Leanne Grieves and Hazel Wheeler Wildlife Preservation Canada One of the interesting challenges of modern-day conservation is that it’s no longer enough simply to get people to switch from unsustainable practices to greener ones. The problem now is that there are simply so many of us, with such gr...
AWARE Simcoe note: check out the ECO website for alerts, updates, quick links from ECO website The ECO team warmly welcomes our newly appointed Environmental Commissioner, Dr. Dianne Saxe, chosen with unanimous agreement of Ontario’s Legislative Assembly earlier this week. Her appointment takes effec...
Why has there been no public debate about this matter? By Don Avery Watershed News On October 6, 2015, Grey County’s Planning and Development Committee passed a resolution recommending ‘that the Niagara Escarpment Commission be dissolved given the existence of professional planning in county, regiona...
This plots atmospheric CO2 concentration synthesizing ice core proxy data 650,000 years in the past capped by modern direct measurements. Source: Global Climate Change — Earth Science Communications Team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology (data from NOA...
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 400 parts per million of CO2 in the Earth’s ...
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 COP21 summit, a new report, jointly published by Bir...
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 Invasive Plant Management Strategies on Thursday,...
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 research shows they may also be helping us out in...
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 from two of the country’s leading climate scient...
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 Ontario Nature The Ontario government is proposing to...
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