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{mosimage}An ice-fisher from Sachs Harbour, NWT, and a sugar-cane farmer from the Fiji Islands have more in common than some may think.

Cap-and-trade system keeps markets honest

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{mosimage}If capitalism can save the planet, itöÏÓãÊÓƵapp running out of time in Canada where market-based approaches to greenhouse gas reduction have yet to be tried.

Kairos conference to tackle climate change

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{mosimage}As — CanadaöÏÓãÊÓƵapp national, ecumenical social justice coalition — rolls out its newest campaign, suburbanite and activist Dorothy Wilson is excited.

D&P: environmentalists from day one

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{mosimage}The has helped finance 49 projects or organizations around the world with an environmental focus between 2002 and 2007.

St. StephenöÏÓãÊÓƵapp aims for zero waste

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{mosimage}TORONTO - Wearing plastic gloves, Carolyn Tran remembers rooting through her schoolöÏÓãÊÓƵapp garbage with her classmates taking an inventory of all the discarded recyclables.

HPV vaccine could encourage sexual activity

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HPV.jpgOTTAWA - This fall, Catholic parents of girls from 10 to 13 years of age may face a quandary when schools in several provinces start offering a new vaccination program against a sexually transmitted virus that can cause cervical cancer.

WorldöÏÓãÊÓƵapp poor feeling effects of climate change

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{mosimage}ROCHESTER, N.Y. - When Hippolyt Pul was a young boy, farmers in his home country of Ghana often referred to the feast of the Ascension as “the feast of the bean leaf.â€

Bible no source of scientific knowledge

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Intelligent Design reduces and belittles GodöÏÓãÊÓƵapp power and might, according to the director of the Vatican Observatory.

Science is and should be seen as “completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results, said Fr. George V. Coyne, S.J., director of the Vatican Observatory, while noting that “science and religion are totally separate pursuits."

A truly dignified way to die

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When Marlene West faced her family to tell them about her plans regarding her death she got a surprise — tears and grasping for words that just wouldn’t come.

Climate change a good place to show preferential option for the poor

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A team of health and climate scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the World Health Organization has recently compiled compelling data that confirms countries in Africa and coastal countries along the Pacific and Indian Ocean are the most vulnerable to the lethal effects of global climate change.

Turning our water into chemical soup

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Where do all the pharmaceutical drugs, cosmetics and toiletry chemicals go after we've ingested them, fed them to our livestock or rinsed them off our bodies?