Mark Mallory was in a helicopter flying over the bleak Arctic tundra when he was struck by the view of Cape Vera on Devon Island. He had been flying over blue water and brown landscapes in Nunavut for some time, so the bright orange 1,000-foot cliffs towering over green ponds were a sight for sore eyes.
Surveillance and old-fashioned detective work are helping researchers track down suspects responsible for tiger losses in an Indian wildlife reserve.
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“I’ve worked my whole life to be a professional ski bum and it’s turned out pretty well by this point,” says Jeremy Derksen. But his way of life faces a threat: climate change. After all, how do you follow the snow when you can’t be sure where it will fall?
Climate change is hitting home across Atlantic Canada, whether you love birds, build homes, host tourists, or just worry your back is about to give out from all that snow shovelling. Scientists say a shift in weather patterns is accelerating due to greenhouse gas emissions from humans burning carbon. It’s already affecting lives in the region. Here are six ways.
Climate change is hitting home across Canada’s Prairies, whether you ski, skate, ranch, mill timber, or insure people whacked by weird weather. Scientists say a shift in weather patterns is accelerating due to greenhouse gas emissions from humans burning carbon. It’s already affecting lives in the region. Here are six ways.
Climate change is hitting home across Ontario, whether you love hiking, skating, swimming, or sipping a craft wine from the Niagara region’s vineyards. It’s affecting jobs, too, including in tourism, shipping and energy sectors. Here are seven ways climate change is getting personal in the province.
A potential cure for the deadly disease wiping out vast populations of amphibians all came down to special two-liter coke bottles filled with water and tadpoles from an island off the Mediterranean coast of Spain.
Researchers like Trent Garner and Jaime Bosch spent days hiking in and out of remote mountains — the latter even rappelling down cliffs into canyons — to reach small ponds full of tadpoles of the Mallorcan midwife toad (Alytes muletensis).
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While they are known for their scent and ability to track prey themselves, there aren’t many large animals more elusive to researchers than the wolverine. But a new camera trap study is laying the baseline for more accurate definitions of current wolverine habitat at the southern end of their known range.
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It was midafternoon on the last day of the search, and nothing had turned up. Thomas Floyd had been invited to Alabama a few weeks ago to help track down the eastern hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) — a species of salamander thought to be extirpated from the state. The last of the salamanders to turn up in formal surveys had been discovered in 1979, but a few unconfirmed sightings had been reported in recent years and a video surfaced in March last year of a hellbender pulled out of in Cypress Creek in northern Alabama.
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