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- Academics Urge Government Climate Action
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 More than 500 university faculty members from universities across Canada signed a letter to the Canadian Government calling for immediate drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The letter points out the time frame of reductions is critical.
- Bold Scientists
Dispatches from the Battle for Honest Science Resource Type: Book Published: 2014 Accounts of scientists working in the public interest despite powerful opposition.
- The Canadian Space Agency
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Connexions Library: Environment Focus
Resource Type: Website Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
- Connexions Library: Science Focus
Resource Type: Website Published: 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on science.
- EnvironmentSources.com
Resource Type: Website Published: 2017 Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Harper's Seven-Year War on Science
Chris Turner's treatise on Tory anti-empiricism should spark outrage. But those in power won't see it. Resource Type: Article Published: 2013
- The War on Science
Muzzled Scientists and Wilful Blindness in Stephen Harper's Canada Resource Type: Book Published: 2013 Do No Science, Hear No Science, Speak No Science -- that is the Harper agenda. And if this agenda is most evident and most pronounced in environmental science, that's simply because it is the field most likely to uncover evidence that the government's paramount goal -- to free the country's resource extraction industries from oversight in the name of rapid expansion -- is wrongheaded, reckless, and damaging.
- What's Driving Chaotic Dismantling of Canada's Science Libraries?
Scientists reject Harper government claims vital material is being saved digitally Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Scientists say the closure of some of the world's finest fishery, ocean and environmental libraries by the Harper government has been so chaotic that irreplaceable collections of intellectual capital built by Canadian taxpayers for future generations has been lost forever. Many collections ended up in dumpsters while others such as Winnipeg's historic Freshwater Institute library were scavenged by citizens, scientists and local environmental consultants. Others were burned or went to landfills.
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