This week:

• We present a lecture by Green Toronto Award winner David Bell about strategies for reducing Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions.
• Simon Watson and Sapna Sharma interview University of Toronto particle physics student Brian Beare about whether the “God Particle” is an environmental threat on the scale of the Big Bang.
• Engineering correspondant Scott Hansen fills in as guest host for Jordan Poppenk.

The headlines in brief:

• Several important new supporters have joined the U.S. Climate Change Partnership, a group pushing for the
• US to institute mandatory national cap and trade legislation;
• Bottom-trawling, a highly destructive fishing practice will now be monitored and limited in a quarter of the world’s oceans;
• An unexpected bird hunt in Cyprus had environmentalists up in arms;
• Officials are planning to bring tigers back to the Sariska reserve in India.

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