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In late January 2024, federal regulators learned that a dead female North Atlantic right whale had been sighted near Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The whale was towed to shore, where more …
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A new report, Advancing Regenerative Agriculture in Canada: Barriers, Enablers, and Recommendations, led by Ivey professor Diane-Laure Arjaliès, founder and lead of the Ivey Sustainable Finance Lab researchers at Ivey …
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All organisms are made of living cells. While it is difficult to pinpoint exactly when the first cells came to exist, geologists’ best estimates suggest at least as early as 3.8 …
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Oregon State University researchers have discovered vitamin B1 produced by microbes in rivers, findings that may offer hope for vitamin-deficient salmon populations. The findings were published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, https://phys.org/news/2024 …
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Toxic chemicals produced from oil emissions and wildfire smoke have been found in muscle and liver samples from Southern Resident killer whales and Bigg’s killer whales, https://phys.org/news/2023 reports said. A …
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#AcceleratedWarming; #NorthernGreatLakes; #EcologicalThresholds A team of researchers from Queen’s University and Environment and Climate Change Canada have shown that accelerated 21st-century warming has triggered a striking shift in algal composition …
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government continues to be tied up in a massive scandal over its plans to remove lands from Ontario’s Greenbelt—including the integrity commissioner’s finding that the housing minister broke …
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Remote plants representational by Joshua Earle on unsplash Oceanic islands provide useful models for ecology, biogeography and evolutionary research. Many ground-breaking findings—including Darwin’s theory of evolution—have emerged from the study …
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According to a recent study published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, climate change could lead to an abrupt increase in the number of species pushed over tipping points. …
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In the animal kingdom, sibling conflicts —mostly in the form of competition for food from parents —are fairly common in birds. Sometimes death can occur as a result of this …
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