The Way Back: Sudbury Lakes Recovering from Acid Rain
More than a century of metal mining and smelting took a heavy toll on the environment around Sudbury, Ontario. Sulphur dioxide emissions from local smelters acidified an estimated 7 000 lakes in a zone of about 17 000 square kilometres...
The Leader of the Pack
Motorcycles make up less than two per cent of registered motor vehicles and account for under 0.5 per cent of total emissions from on-road transportation sources in Canada.
System assesses storm severity
About 44 000 thunderstorms occur around the world each day —from localized
single-cell storms that produce short-lived cloudbursts...
Anatomy of a Storm
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Project Gives Electric Vehicles a Boost
Electric vehicles (EVs) are slowly merging into the commercial market as a result of
more stringent clean-air measures in major cities around the world.
High-Altitude POPs and Alpine Predators
Studies of glacial ice cores and fish caught in alpine lakes in the Rocky Mountains show
that levels of persistent organic pollutants...
Smoke on the Water
Ask cottagers the last place they would choose to swim, and most will say the local
marina, where motorboats leave shiny pools of oil on the water's surface and clouds
of blue exhaust in the air.
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