Are Quebec’s Most Beautiful Islands Doomed to Disappear?
The Magdalen Islands are being swallowed up by rising sea levels, leaving islanders with a stark choice: flee or stay
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Ask a Weather Expert: Is the Humidex Just Hot Air?
The formula was developed in 1965, but some experts say the sweaty signifier is flawed
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Why Climate Change Is Not an Environmental Issue
Misunderstanding the nature of the peril humanity faces is one reason climate politics has been so prone to frustration and despair
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Revenge of the Earthworms
A gardener’s best friend? Think again. How invasive earthworms are wreaking havoc on our ecosystems
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Ask an Environmental Expert: What’s the Carbon Footprint of the Internet?
Our digital habits are worse for the environment than flying. That toll is expected to grow
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Early Warning Signals: How Poetry Helps Us Understand Our Impact on Ecology
The environmental crisis is, in part, a crisis of the imagination. Poems can create a new form of knowing
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Sewergate: There’s Something Rotten in the State of Our Waterways
A sewage leak in southern Ontario highlights the toxic relationship between cities and water
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