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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
The need to limit flood risk in Canada is urgent, with approximately 1.5 million homes, representing 10 per cent of the Canadian residential housing market, in high-risk zones where they are ineligible for flood insurance.
As the Arctic warms and loses sea ice, trans-Arctic shipping has increased, reducing travel time and costs for international trade.
As temperatures across the globe reach record-level highs, urban areas are facing increased heat stress.
Researchers have developed a new mining technique which uses microbes to recover metals and store carbon in the waste produced by mining. Adopting this technique of reusing mining waste, called tailings, could transform the mining industry and create a greener and more sustainable future.
Safer and more effective blood thinners could be on the way following a groundbreaking discovery by researchers at UBC and the University of Michigan, published today in Nature Communications.
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