by Working Forest | Apr 22, 2015 | Archives
Gaze west from this city’s quay over the lovely silver-flecked vista of Alberni Inlet and steep, forest-clad ridges frame the horizon. Behind those ridges is Henderson Lake, wettest place in North America. Can a town barely 20 kilometres as the raven flies from where...
by Working Forest | Apr 22, 2015 | Archives
Trees that grow twice as fast as normal have been developed by scientists, in a bid to boost renewable energy and tackle climate change. They manipulated two genes to accelerate cell division in poplar trees, which were also bigger and had more leaves. The research,...
by Working Forest | Apr 22, 2015 | Archives
The province of Nova Scotia has set aside $50 million to begin cleaning up the pulp mill waste treatment plant in Boat Harbour, but there are still questions about where the effluent will be treated after the plant is taken offline. “Today’s legislation...
by Working Forest | Apr 22, 2015 | Archives
Fifty million dollars is a lot of money, but it may not be enough to pay for the Boat Harbour cleanup. That’s according to some Pictou County residents in the know who are concerned the effluent in Boat Harbour may be more toxic than anyone knows. On Friday, the...
by Working Forest | Apr 22, 2015 | Archives
With fires already raging across parts of Siberia, Russia can expect “catastrophic” wildfires as bad as or worse than those that devastated parts of the country in summer 2010, some environmental experts say. A mild winter with little snowfall, the early...
