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A10 Saturday, October 10, 2009 CANADA Breaking news at calgaryherald.com Adventurer witnessed effects of climate change i 4 V-A 8 I JEN fcmffl stretches of the Arctic Ocean were open water, something that wasn't supposed to happen until August, Swan said. The Arctic was already showing the effects of climate change. His discoveries of environmental damage and his passion for the Poles gave Swan a new focus. As he told students Friday, "The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it" Swan began taking young people to Antarctica, trying to awaken a desire to protect the continent among that generation. Together, they raised enough money to clean up 1,360 tonnes of garbage left by the former Soviet Union.

Since then, he's built the world's first education base on Antarctica. It will help him share the beauty of the place virtually to classrooms around the world. Next year, he's going back to the South Pole, replicating the journey from 25 years ago. Only this time he'll do it without any fossil fuels, relying on a small wind turbine and solar panels on everything, including their clothing. Swan said the fact that they can live and travel in Antarctica using only I do not enjoy having ice in my underpants.

It's a bit tricky. Robert swan I do not enjoy having ice in my underpants. It's a bit tricky." By the time Swan made his trek," human-caused damage to the environment was causing a severe effect His journey to the Pole was made under the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica Afterward, his eye colour changed permanently from darkblue to light blue, and the skin on his face blistered, then peeled off. His North Pole journey in 1989, made over sea ice, since the Pole isn't located on land, held a surprise, too. Although he was travelling in April, Bruce Edwards, Edmonton Journal'.

Robert Swan, the first person to walk to both the South and North Poles, inspires Stony Plain students with tales of his experiences. renewable energy should show the tionship with the students by telling world it is possible anywhere. them that his dream started when he Students in the audience were in- was pretty much their age. "I think we've all been helping out sored by the Alberta Water Research but this presentation made us want Institute. Erin Alexander, 14, said she to do it more," added Mercedees appreciated the way he built a rela- esse pa ewe eraF wHT 1 IM t'" mm fctua sssa fa iJLd mmm mmmemwi 1 Ksa eaa aaa mm jf f4f 5 ji aaoBMi mm mm mm mm mm mm asa sLj v.irwtTr'--: asm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm turn esa mm HBMBBeal 1 1 rv i awaf; j.

Ill -j 2009 Dodge Grand Caravan Canada's Selling Minivan' 2009 Dodge Journey Canada's (f Selling Crossover" tun 4. 2009 Dodge Ram 1500 iWoiuiT HisHESiscoMsormmMHmt lmmr IS rEM HISTORY OF THE TQISWDr "1 Environmental pioneer inspires Alberta students HANNEKE BROOYMANS Edmonton Journal STONY PLAIN, ALTA. Robert Swan is the first person in history to walk to both the North and South Poles, but he's worried no one will be able to follow in his footsteps. "I might end up being the last person to do it," he told Stony Plain students Friday. "At the rate we're wanning up our world, there won't be ice to walk on." Swan was about the same age as the children gathered in High Park School when he got it into his head that he wanted to walk to the South Pole.

Sheer determination and hard work got him to his goal in 1986. The trip involved a rather unpleasant 70-day journey, including a day travelling in -76 where sweat freezes under your clothing. "I'll tell you what boys and girls, Are whales killing porpoises on purpose? LARRY PYNN CANWEST NEWS SERVICE VANCOUVER Natural-born killers or misunderstood mamas? Scientists are grasping for answers to explain why southern resident killer whales a group of fish eaters that prefers chinook salmon have also been observed toying with harbour porpoises before leaving them dead, including two cases in the past month in Washington state and B.C.'s Strait of Georgia. Joe Gaydos, staff scientist with the SeaDoc Society, speculated that killer whales might see the porpoises as an opportunity for a playful "cat and mouse" game with deadly consequences. "The thing we forget about wildlife is that they don't really have a consciousness like we have, that this is OK and this is not OK," he said from his office in Washington's San Juan Islands.

"Cats don't think, 'Oh, it's not OK to play with it (a They just do it That's what an animal does." But John Ford, a whale expert with the federal Fisheries Department, said from Nanaimo, B.C., that because female killer whales tend to engage in the behaviour, it is possible they are trying to prop up the porpoises as they might their own young. The porpoises can ultimately succumb to shock, exhaustion, injury or drowning. "It could be a maternal-driven behaviour that is misdirected towards another species," said Ford, noting southern residents seem more likely to exhibit the behaviour than northern resident killer whales. "These animals (porpoises) are often sort of carried about on their backs or heads, pushed around. It's almost like a behaviour you'd see with a distressed or dead calf of a killer whale.

We've seen a stillborn calf pushed along or carried along by the mother." Lance Barrett-Lennard, a whale biologist with the Vancouver Aquarium, said he's observed two northern resident females trap a harbour porpoise between them in the water, and ultimately let it swim away. Charges laid in triple fatality near Leduc Edmonton Journal A 37-year-old man is facing nine charges in relation to a July crash that killed three people near Leduc, Alta. The highway crash killed Rita and Ian McGillivray, a couple from Surrey, B.C., who had lost both their first spouses to cancer and had only been married themselves for four years. Also killed in the crash was Rita's mother, Maria Zctscn. The couple was in Alberta to visit Zctsen in Canmore.

The three of them were driving to Leduc for a family supper when a welding truck smashed head-on into their Buick, killing all three instantly. Charges were laid Thursday against 37-year-old Euart McEwcn of Leduc County. Me is facing three charges each of dangerous driving causing death, impaired driving causing death and driving over the legal alcohol limit causing death. He is scheduled to appear in court Nov. 19.

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