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At the Convergence of Climate Change and Art

How one artist and climate scientist is communicating environmental data through watercolour art pieces.

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Humans are competing with moose for the least sensible path to social recognition.

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Endangered Perspective: The Elusive Wildcat

There is still hope that Atlantic Canada is home to eastern cougars.

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What's Worth More: Your Time or the Planet?

A “time-as-money” mindset discourages environmental behaviour, UBC research finds.

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How wireless devices compare to other sources of radiation.

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Research Digest: Focus on Ocean Plastic

Apr 2015 | IN Health 41.2 | BY Janet Kimantas Andrew Reeves

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News from the gyre, polar polymers + more on ocean plastic pollution.

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Climate Change Already Makes Us Sick

Apr 2015 | IN Health 41.2 | BY Gideon Forman

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Gideon Forman interviews Sherilee Harper on the health effects of climate change.

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Bouncing Back: How Resilience Leads to Better Health

Apr 2015 | IN Health 41.2 | BY Michael Torreiter

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Systems theory and resilience thinking may give us better tools for managing health in the 21st century.

Plastic particle counts in the Great Lakes

Beads Befoul Great Lakes

Apr 2015 | IN Health 41.2 | BY Andrew Reeves

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Samples identified up to 450,000 individual plastic particles per square kilometre.

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Indigenous Health Institute Aims to Address "Corrosive Effects of Poverty" and Colonization

Apr 2015 | IN Health 41.2 | BY Janet Kimantas

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The Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health launched in Toronto last month. A\J spoke to interim director Jeff Reading.

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Endangered Perspective: The Alarming Case of the Atlantic Puffin

Apr 27 2015 | IN Endangered Perspective | BY Zack Metcalfe

Scientists are noticing worrying rates of infant mortality in Atlantic puffin populations – the cause of death is starvation.

Canadian Rocky Mountain Ranch by Gonzalo Pineda Zuniga | Flickr

Bison: The Original Climate Change Activists

Apr 10 2015 | IN Wildlife | BY Stephen Bocking

Taking a page from the history book can benefit climate change research.

The Plastic to Oil Machine

Mar 2013 | IN Greenbelts 39.2 | BY Julie Bélanger

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Whitehorse did it. Your community can too.

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Why Do We Park on a Driveway and Drive on a Parkway?

Feb 13 2014 | IN Resilience | BY Cameron Roberts

The origin of suburbs and the evolution of transportation provide lessons for reimagining our cities.

Pieter Adongo, 17, at the Agbogbloshie e-waste dumping grounds.

Control-Act-Delete

Jul 2014 | IN Art & Media 40.3 | BY Christian Beaudrie

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Our electronics don’t have to land in an African slum.

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Is Bitumen Good for Canada?

May 2013 | IN Art & Media 39.3 | BY Andrew Wong

A new CCPA report examines the economic, environmental and societal impacts.

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Ours is Better Than Yours

Apr 2014 | IN Sharing 40.2 | BY Ray Tomalty

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Consumers are escaping the stresses of ownership and rediscovering the value of communal stuff – and cars are driving the movement.

Lufa Farms Ahuntsic at sunset

Are Rooftop Greenhouses the Food Solution We’ve Been Waiting For?

Sep 18 2014 | IN Responsible Business | BY Genevieve Fullan

Lufa Farms is tackling the dual problem of increasing demand and a lighter footprint.

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37 Million Dead Bees Bring Strong Warnings

Jul 19 2013 | IN Responsible Business | BY Lindsay Mason

Which path will we take to protect pollinators from our current agricultural practices?

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