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Ask an Expert / 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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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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pig taking in some rays while relaxing in his bedroom
September 2018 / Society

The Charmed Life of Esther the Wonder Pig

August 15, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Jason McBride

What one celebrity pet can tell us about our curious and complicated relationship with animals

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Environment / May 2018

The Value of a Bear

April 18, 2018March 27, 2020 - by Gloria Dickie

Why some Indigenous communities in BC won’t rejoice over the NDP’s decision to ban the grizzly hunt

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Environment / January/February 2018

Our Obsession with Glass Is Killing Birds

December 15, 2017April 2, 2020 - by Moira Farr

We’ve designed our buildings with shiny, transparent, or mirrored ­surfaces that hundreds crash into day ­after day

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Illustration by Aimée van Drimmelen
Environment / October 2017

How Farmers Are Saving the Trumpeter Swan

September 18, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Anita Lahey

The world’s largest waterfowl has rebounded from near extinction—thanks, in part, to the people who hate them

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Photograph courtesy of the FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
Environment

How Humans Are Inadvertently Hastening the Extinction of Canada’s Whales

September 13, 2017March 14, 2022 - by Christopher Pollon

An investigation into this summer’s mysterious deaths blames our booming industries. But it isn’t too late to save the endangered mammals

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Illustration by Steven P. Hughes
Environment / September 2017

How Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson Built a Bird Sanctuary

August 18, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Grant Munroe

On secluded Pelee Island, the literary duo has spent decades protecting their feathered friends

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Illustration by Kinomi
June 2017 / Science

How Squirrels Took over Our Cities

May 23, 2017April 6, 2020 - by Colleen Kimmett

We imported these fluffy colonists to fill our urban parks. They’ve been getting stronger ever since

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