News stories by Stephen Leahy, page 6

UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 12 (IPS) - Two years after Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the country faces 100 to 250 billion dollars in cleanup and compensation costs, tens of thousands of displaced people and widespread impacts of radiation.

UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 11 (IPS) - "Canada is not a country, it's winter," Canadians say with pride. But the nation's long, fearsome winters will live only in memory and song for Canadian children born this decade.

UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 05 (IPS) - Every living thing from bacteria to President Barack Obama is made of carbon from exploding stars.

UXBRIDGE, Canada, Feb 27 (IPS) - Killer heat waves, floods and storms are increasingly caused by climate change, new research reveals.

UXBRIDGE, Canada, Feb 25 (IPS) - Green energy is the only way to bring billions of people out of energy poverty and prevent a climate disaster, a new study reveals.

UXBRIDGE, Canada, Feb 20 (IPS) - Canada's police and security agencies think citizens concerned about the environment are threats to national security, and some are under surveillance, documents reveal.

UXBRIDGE, Canada, Feb 16 (IPS) - The largest climate rally in U.S. history is expected Sunday in Washington DC with the aim of pressuring President Barack Obama to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

UXBRIDGE, Canada, Feb 14 (IPS) - Thawing permafrost is emitting more climate-heating carbon faster than previously realised. Scientists have now learned that when the ancient carbon locked in the ice thaws and is exposed to sunlight, it turns into carbon dioxide 40 percent faster.

UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jan 29 (IPS) - Weird is the only way to describe January temperatures whipsawing between record warm and arctic cold over a span of a few days. Experts say that is what climate change looks like: weird, record-shattering weather.

UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jan 18 (IPS) - After Hurricane Sandy swept through the northeast of the United States late October 2012, millions of New Yorkers were left for days without electricity.  But they still had access to drinking water, thanks to New York City's reliance on protected watershed areas for potable water.