Archive
Earthgauge News – Dec. 10, 2019
Environmental news featuring stories from across Canada and around the world. Broadcast every other Tuesday at 12:00 noon EST on CKCU radio 93.1 FM in Ottawa or online at www.ckcufm.com. Or download the podcast here.
On the show this week:
- Greenhouse-gas emissions hit a record high last year, UN warns
- Loudspeakers Can Help Bring Degraded Reefs Back to Life, Study Shows
- A-List Celebs, Politicians Join John Kerry’s World War Zero Campaign to Fight the Climate Crisis
- Climate crisis pushing Earth to a ‘global tipping point,’ researchers say
- The Ocean Is Running Out of Oxygen, Largest Study of Its Kind Finds
- New Zealand Will Consider Climate Crisis in All Major Policy Decisions
Earthgauge News – Oct. 15, 2019
Environmental news podcast featuring stories from across Canada and around the world. Broadcast every other Tuesday at 12:00 noon EST on CKCU radio 93.1 FM in Ottawa or online at www.ckcufm.com. Or download the podcast here.
On the show this week:
- Anheuser-Busch to Launch Largest Electric Class 8 Truck Fleet in North America
- CLEAN ENERGY TO CREATE 160,000 JOBS BY 2030 WHILE FOSSILS LOSE 50,000
- OIL LOBBY WISH LIST WOULD DRIVE UP CANADA’S FOSSIL EMISSIONS 60% BY 2030, ANALYSIS SHOWS
- NORWAY’S BIGGEST PENSION FUND DUMPS ALL TAR SANDS/OIL SANDS INVESTMENT
- EXTINCTION REBELLION BRIDGE BLOCKADES AND WALL STREET ‘DIE-IN’ DRAW ATTENTION, PRODUCE IRATE DRIVERS
- Denmark calls for phase out of diesel, gasoline cars
- New data show how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangers
Earthgauge Radio – August 7, 2018
A Canadian environmental news podcast featuring stories from across Canada and around the world. Broadcast every other Tuesday at 12:00 noon EST on CKCU radio 93.1 FM in Ottawa or online at www.ckcufm.com. Or join me here for the podcast.
On the show this week:
- Planet has entered ‘new neighbourhood’ of global temperatures
- The world is hot, on fire and flooding
- Newly elected president of Mexico to ban fracking
- Climate change study ties warming temperatures to rising suicide risk
- Pakistan’s next PM wants to plant 10 billion trees
- Polar bear shot dead after attacking cruise ship guard
- Portland, Oregon may impose clean energy tax on giant retailers
- A record 207 environmental activists were killed last year
- August 3 was ‘Earth Overshoot Day’
Earthgauge Radio – July 24, 2018
A Canadian environmental news podcast featuring stories from across Canada and around the world. Broadcast every other Tuesday at 12:00 noon EST on CKCU radio 93.1 FM in Ottawa or online at www.ckcufm.com. Or join me here for the podcast.
On the show this week:
- A sustainable fashion innovator makes fiber from pineapple leaves
- An eco-friendly sneaker company reduces carbon output of shoes by 85 percent
- The Texas supreme court rules cities cannot ban plastic bags
- Starbucks becomes the largest food and beverage retailer to announce a plastic straw ban
- Typhoons floods and heatwaves batter Asia
- Trump administration announces sweeping proposal to weaken the Endangered Species Act
- Ottawa fails to secure new buyer for Trans Mountain pipeline by deadline
- Judge throws out New York climate lawsuit
- Glacier half the size of Manhattan breaks off Greenland
- Ireland becomes world’s first country to divest from fossil fuels
- Global population passes 7.5 billion
- Almost every part of Canada’s largest national park is deteriorating, a federal study says
Earthgauge Radio – June 12, 2018
A weekly Canadian environmental news podcast featuring stories from across Canada and around the world.
Join me here every week or subscribe to the podcast.
On the show this week:
- a new oceans study could alter climate change predictions (for the worse)
- new ship fuel regulations could sink oil sands expansion
- the Canadian government’s purchase of the Kinder Morgan Transmountain pipeline comes amid collapsing demand for oil globally
- taxpayers are still shelling out billions of dollars in subsidies for the oil industry
- India announces a single-use plastics ban and the International Olympic Committee makes a commitment to fight plastic pollution
- Volkswagen bans diesel exhaust testing on animals (can you believe this was even happening in the first place?)
- Donald Trump is isolated on plastics and climate change at the recent G7 Summit
- the Pope urges oil companies to lead the transition to clean energy
- a B.C. start-up company figures out how to remove carbon from the air.
Interview with journalist Paul McKay about pipeline economics in Canada
Time and time again, we hear from politicians that we need more pipelines to get Alberta’s oil to new markets. But Paul Mckay, an award-winning journalist who has looked at this issue closely, says this is all a shell game, smoke and mirrors designed to distract us from what’s really going on. McKay says the economics of new oil sands pipelines simply don’t make sense in today’s world, particularly if we have any hope of reducing our carbon emissions.
Paul McKay is an award-winning investigative reporter and author. His reports have been published by the Ottawa Citizen, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, and Vancouver Sun. He recently wrote a series of articles for The Energy Mix about the faulty economic logic of Canadian oil sands exports called ‘Out of the Loop’.
Earthgauge Radio – May 15, 2018
A weekly Canadian environmental news podcast featuring stories from across Canada and around the world.
Join me here every week or subscribe to the podcast.
On the show this week:
- Sunscreen is ruining coral reefs in Hawaii
- California is set to require solar panels on all new homes
- New video shows massive deforestation in Indonesia
- Investors urge oil companies to stay out of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska
- Activists claim victory as western Canada oil tanker ban passes
- A plastic bag is found at the bottom of the ocean’s deepest trench
Earthgauge Radio – May 1, 2018
A weekly Canadian environmental news podcast featuring stories from across Canada and around the world.
Join me here every week or subscribe to the podcast.
On the show this week:
- Was the Kinder Morgan Transmountain pipeline approval process rigged?
- One in eight bird species is threatened with extinction
- Indonesia calls in the army to fight plastic while scientists accidentally develop a mutant enzyme that eats plastic
- The International Maritime Organization approves the first ever carbon cuts for the shipping industry
- The EU agrees to a total ban on bee-harming pesticides
- Gorilla numbers are far higher than previously thought
Earthgauge News – Dec. 4, 2017
Edition #7 of the Earthgauge News podcast for the week of Dec. 4, 2017.
A weekly Canadian environmental news podcast featuring stories from across Canada and around the world.
Join me here every week or subscribe in iTunes or your favourite podcast catcher.
On the show this week:
- Global carbon emissions on the rise again
- Oil drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge
- Ice apocalypse in Antarctica
- Fossil fuel divestment
- Canada signs high Arctic commercial fishing ban
- Canada and the U.S. failing to protect the Great Lakes
Earthgauge News – Nov. 12, 2017
Edition #6 of the Earthgauge News podcast for the week of Nov. 12, 2017.
A weekly Canadian environmental news podcast featuring stories from across Canada and around the world.
Join me here every Monday or subscribe in iTunes or your favourite podcast catcher.
On the show this week:
- The COP23 Climate Summit is underway in Bonn, Germany just as 2017 is likely to be the 3rd hottest year on record.
- More than 15,000 scientists have issued a new, dire warning to humanity.
- A new study says that the world can be powered by 100% renewable energy by 2050.
- The City of Ottawa’s latest draft Budget is out and the news is not all good for climate action.
- Recent state elections in the US could be good news for the climate, but it comes at a time when the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve could be opened for oil and gas drilling.
