By David Adam - Tuesday 9 December 2008

At a high-level academic conference on global warming at Exeter University this summer, climate scientist Kevin Anderson stood before his expert audience and contemplated a strange feeling. He wanted to be wrong...Anderson, an expert at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at Manchester University, was about to send the gloomiest dispatch yet from the frontline of the war against climate change.

NONDALTON, Alaska -- The gold mine proposed for this stunning open country might be the largest in North America. It would involve building the biggest dam in the world at the headwaters of the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery, which it would risk obliterating.

By Jonathan Amos | Science reporter, BBC News, San Francisco

[T]he ice-albedo feedback effect [is when] open water [absorbs] more solar radiation [than ice], which in turn leads to additional warming and further melting.

"The loss this year will precondition the ice for the same thing to happen again next year, only worse. In the end, it will just melt away quite suddenly."

The beauty of the NWT’s Upper Thelon is safe...for now. Chuck Strahl, the minister of Indian and northern affairs Canada (INAC), formally accepted the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board (Review Board) recommendation that exploration work proposed by UR-Energy be rejected without an environmental impact review.

Kenyon told CBC News that the Yukon should be included in the program - already in place in Alberta and British Columbia - that fast-tracks the government approval process for employers in 12 high-demand sectors to hire workers from outside the country.

"The federal government now has said, 'OK, in certain classifications, we understand that there is a shortage ... all over Western Canada,' " Kenyon said last week.

By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor, The Independent (UK)
Published: 22 September 2007

In what will be widely seen as one of the most alarming signs yet of accelerating global warming, the summer melt-back exceeded the September 2005 low point by 22 per cent – an area of 1.2 million square kilometres – more than 385,000 square miles. This represents an area five times the size of the UK.

Overcrowding and bad ventilation appear to be to blame for the high number of lung infections in young Inuit children, finds a new study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal...Inuit infants in the Baffin region of Nunavut have the highest reported rate of hospital admission in the world, because of severe...lung infections, with annualized rates of up to 306 per 1000 infants.

Some of the world's most powerful nations are getting increasingly desperate
for fresh water and observers are concerned that a day will come when countries will
fight for the dwindling resource.

Countries in the Middle East and Africa have long dealt with water shortages but now
the likes of China, India and the United States are grappling with the problem.

And the United Nations says five billion people will be living in areas with limited
water availability by 2025, which will only exacerbate tensions and demand for the
limited supply.

The fact is, it takes energy to make energy --
even nuclear energy. And the true "energetic costs" of making nuclear
energy -- the amounts of traditionally generated fuel it takes to create
"new" nuclear energy -- have not been tallied up until very recently.

First? You notice that the highway, while it was described as “this is nothing” for traffic, is jammed almost constantly with nothing but big rigs, yet some of the rigs are so massive that an ordinary semi-trailer hauling truck—one loaded even with logs from clearcuts near the ‘projects’—seem like Tonka toys. I got the weirdest, most consuming creep inside my stomach as the simple mere mortal smallness of the ant-like people became real. It was a feeling that I had one precedent for [...]

What happened to the management plan? What are the changes that were made to the plan? Doesn't the public have a right to know? Why was the Thelon Sanctuary removed from the Federal of the official map of the NWT in the mid-1980's? Why has the International Biological Program (IBP) studies about the Thelon - the critical document which identifies the Thelon as a biological site of universal importance - just apparently 'vanished' from every bookshelf, library & archive across Canada?

MNN. May 12, 2007. John Graham, an Indigenous man from the Northwest Territories in Canada, is being accused by the U.S. authorities of participating in the murder of Indigenous woman, Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash, another "Canadian". This happened more than 30 years ago. Both were members of the American Indian Movement [AIM]. Since when did the U.S. ever go after someone for killing an Indian? What's behind it?