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Animals

Image of a peafowl family tree set against a blue sky and clouds.
July/August 2022 / Society

Ruffled Feathers: How Feral Peacocks Divided a Small Town

July 4, 2022July 4, 2022 - by Lyndsie Bourgon

The birds were beloved. But they also chased garbage trucks, scratched cars, and feasted on vegetable patches

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Cartoon panel of a bear waking up to an alarm clock and ending hibernation, but confused that it looks like autumn and not spring outside.
Environment / March/April 2022

Ask an Ecology Expert: How Is the Climate Crisis Changing Our Seasons?

March 21, 2022April 22, 2022 - by Madhur Anand

Early springs and long, hot summers are disrupting migration and mating patterns

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Illustration of a pigeon flying over farmland.
December 2021 / Science

The Pigeon Puzzle: How Do They Figure Out Their Impossibly Long Routes Home?

November 19, 2021January 2, 2022 - by Trevor Popoff

You might consider them flying rats, but their odysseys stump scientists

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December 2021

To Catch a Turtle Thief: Blowing the Lid Off an International Smuggling Operation

November 12, 2021January 2, 2022 - by Clare Fieseler

When a padded envelope at the Calgary airport started to move, officials jumped into action

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illustration of a cactus with a sale sign
Environment

The Cactus That Came Back from the Dead

September 27, 2021April 22, 2022 - by Amir Aziz

When a plant barely exists in the natural world but lives on your windowsill, is it really endangered?

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A photo of ancient Indigenous fish traps lining a harbour in British Colombia.
Environment

Can Ancient Indigenous Technology Help Save BC’s Salmon?

September 1, 2021April 5, 2022 - by Brian Payton

After an earthquake exposed thousands of mysterious wooden stakes off Vancouver Island, researchers spent over a decade figuring out what they mean

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A black and white photo of a sockeye salmon swimming in a river.
Environment / September/October 2021

The Other Epidemic: What’s Killing the Wild Salmon?

August 10, 2021October 18, 2021 - by Max Binks-Collier

A virus that flourishes in fish farms is now threatening wild populations. With hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, are business interests leading to government inaction?

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Photograph of a red fox alone in a metal cage.
Society

Why We Need to See Images of Animal Cruelty

November 23, 2020January 8, 2022 - by Jason McBride

New laws threaten to restrict access for animal rights activists, but witnessing is the first step to change

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A man in a checkered shirt stands inside a large, barn-shaped building surrounded by chickens. He is holding a chicken in his hands and leaning towards it.
Health

A Warning from the Chickens of the World

July 6, 2020July 8, 2020 - by David Waltner-Toews

How our reliance on mass-produced food increases the risk of pandemics

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Illustration of a dark haired woman, crouching to pet a rooster. Around her are two other chickens.
May 2020

We Turned Our Pet Chickens Into Dinner

April 17, 2020 - by Yasuko Thanh

First we bonded over our unusual pets. Then we bonded over butchering them

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