Category: policy / funding
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Ozone-hole treaty slowed global warming
Montreal Protocol helped to curb climate change and so did world wars and the Great Depression. Human actions that were not intended to limit the greenhouse effect have had large effects on slowing climate change. The two world wars, the Great Depression and a 1987 international treaty on ozone-depleting chemicals put a surprising dent in…
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Lady of the lakes
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NATURE — Diane Orihel set her PhD aside to lead a massive protest when Canada tried to shut down its unique Experimental Lakes Area.
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In carbon sequestration, money grows on trees
DISCOVER MAGAZINE — Guyana’s tropical rainforests protected under the REDD program provide not just natural resources but an income stream to the country.
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Accord could make Canadian generics industry a ‘rust bucket’
A trade agreement in negotiations between Canada and the EU is drawing the ire of generic drugmakers, provincial governments and patient advocates over proposals to extend drug patents by several years in Canada, a move that critics say would delay the arrival of generic medicines to market in that country and inflate healthcare costs. According…
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Canadian satellite system under budget cloud
Nature Missed deadlines and an underfunded Canada Space Agency (CSA) may scuttle plans to build the next generation of earth observing satellites, according to the Canadian satellite company pegged to build them. In 2010, the CSA selected MacDonald, Detwillier and Associates Ltd. to design the successor to Radarsat-2, the agency’s current earth observing satellite. The company came…