Selected Clips

The Atlantic

Sea Ice Retreat Could Lead to Rapid Overfishing in the Arctic. A consortium of countries are meeting in Iceland, where they hope to strike a deal that protects the newly accessible ecosystem.
Global Warming Is Threatening Alaska’s Prized Wedding Flower. Business is booming for the state’s peony growers. Will climate change ruin things?
The Race to Safeguard the Arctic’s Natural Heritage. Scientists are trying to protect seven marine areas before climate change worsens.

Arctic Deeply

Audubon

In Canada’s Boreal Forest, a New National Park Faces the Wrongs of the Past—and Guards Our Climate Future. 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.

bioGraphic

Butterflies in the Storm. Battling rising seas and creeping asphalt, scientists race to save two endangered species.
Sea Change. The Arctic Ocean is beginning to look and act more like the Atlantic. It’s a shift that threatens to upend an entire food web built on frigid waters.
High Stakes in the High North. A remote island that harbored the world’s last mammoths is becoming a holdout for Arctic wildlife once again.

Discover

The Globe and Mail

This is your brain on trees: Why is urban nature so good for our minds, and what happens when a pandemic isolates us from it? 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

Hakai

Fuzzy Fish. Moldy fish in an Alaskan river threaten a community’s food supply.
Arctic Dogsledding Culture Is Slipping Through the Cracks. Warming temperatures and shrinking sea ice threaten a way of life.

Living Bird

Maclean’s

Frozen Assets. Ice cores tell the history of Canada’s climate, but now the government doesn’t want them anymore
The new lice wars. Despite evidence that it’s time to abandon the no-nit rule requiring kids be sent home, schools have yet to get the message
The root of the ginseng industry’s problem. Demand from China is driving sales of the cultivated root from Canada—and encouraging poachers in the U.S.

Nature

How Cities Can Beat the Heat. Rising temperatures are threatening urban areas, but efforts to cool them may not work as planned
Ecology: Lady of the lakes. Diane Orihel set her PhD aside to lead a massive protest when Canada tried to shut down its unique Experimental Lakes Area.
Ocean sediments suggest dry future for Horn of Africa. Reduced rainfall in East Africa linked to anthropogenic climate change.
Canada abolishes its national science adviser. After just four years, government axes post.
Canada’s renowned freshwater research site to close. Budget fall-out hits environmental research stations.
Study revives bird origin for 1918 flu pandemic. Model also links avian influenza strains to deadly horse flu.
Mechanism behind mega-heatwaves pinpointed. Two recent record hot spells traced to feedback loop between dry soils and trapped air.
The virus spy. Yan Li talks about spotting the novel swine flu virus at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory.
Inuit concerns stall seismic testing. Research in Canadian waters halted over fears it could harm wildlife.
Russian summer tops ‘universal’ heatwave index. Proposed definition of heatwaves grades 2010 Russia event the worst on record.
Biology for art’s sake. Paintings and other works of art are under attack from insects and fungi. Conventional pesticides don’t help — they, too, can damage precious artefacts.

Nature Climate Change

Risky Business: Altering the atmosphere. Recently revisited as a quick fix for global warming, ‘geoengineering’ could rapidly cool the climate but might also play havoc with the planet.
Canadian election goes against the ‘green shift’. Canada’s voters have rejected the Liberal party’s strong environmental platform to re-elect Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

New Scientist

The New York Times

Europe’s Triumphs and Troubles Are Written in Swiss Ice. Pollen frozen in ice in the Alps traces Europe’s calamities, since the time Macbeth ruled Scotland.

NOVA / PBS

Greenland’s Disappearing Glaciers—A Tale of Fire and Ice. Two teams of scientists race to decipher a mystery that could link distant wildfires with Greenland’s melting ice sheet.

Sapiens

History Lost to Sea. Researchers are racing to record—and save—the cultural treasures of the western Canadian Arctic before they fall victim to climate change.

Science

Science News

Climate change made the Arctic greener. Now parts of it are turning brown. Warming trends bring more insects, extreme weather and wildfires that wipe out plants

The Toronto Star

Canadian software helps Syrian activists avoid web censors. Psiphon 3 frees Internet access to circumvent government blocks around the world.
Climate change ticks ever closer. At the foot of Leslie St., a spit of land fans out into Lake Ontario. Over the years, the man-made peninsula, built with rubble from Toronto construction sites, has grown into an urban wilderness, home to butterflies, birds, rabbits and the occasional coyote.
It may be a gut feeling, but all the action starts in your brain. Last month, in a meeting with the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune, Michael Chertoff, the United States homeland security chief, announced he had a “gut feeling” that the nation faced an increased risk of a terrorist attack this summer.

Undark

Wasp Venom Can Save Lives. But the Supply Chain Is Shaky. Venom is crucial to make medicines for those with severe allergic reactions to wasp, hornet, and yellow jacket stings.