Category: featured
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Climate change is making forest fire season longer, more extreme
TORONTO STAR — In the years to come, smoky days may become normal as human-caused climate change worsens wildfires across Canada and makes them harder to control.
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This is your brain on trees — why is urban nature so good for the mind?
THE GLOBE AND MAIL — Green space helps people feel less depressed and fatigued, and science is still exploring all the other ways it lifts our spirits. In a global crisis, we could all use more time in nature.
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Wasp Venom Can Save Lives. But the Supply Chain Is Shaky.
UNDARK — Venom is crucial to make medicines for those with severe allergic reactions to wasp, hornet, and yellow jacket stings.
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In Canada’s boreal forest, a new national park faces the wrongs of the past — and guards our climate future
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AUDUBON — Thaidene Nëné, declared this summer, is a milestone for an Indigenous-led conservation movement that can help keep carbon in the ground and protect crucial habitat as the planet warms.
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Butterflies in the storm
BIOGRAPHIC — As Hurricane Irma was bearing down on the Florida Keys last September, Erica Henry was watching from Raleigh, North Carolina. Henry, an ecologist, had packed up and left the Keys at the start of hurricane season and was supposed to be working on her doctoral thesis. But instead of writing code for a…