How the health of honeybee hives can inform environmental policies in Canadian cities

Jun 13, 2024 06:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature

In recent years, there has been a notable surge in Canada and around the world in the popularity of urban beekeeping. Driven by a heightened awareness of the vital role of pollinators and the practices increasing...

We have a moral responsibility to help low-income nations restore coral reefs

Jun 11, 2024 04:19 am UTC| Nature

The fourth global coral bleaching event is underway. It wont be the last. Even if we reduce the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change, excess heat will remain in the ocean. I believe high-income nations...

A shocking 79% of female scientists have negative experiences during polar field work

Jun 06, 2024 11:28 am UTC| Nature

Every day, women are working on frontier science in Earths unforgiving polar environments. Our study, published today in PLOS Climate, investigated what their experiences are actually like. Fieldwork in the Arctic and...

Documenting the world’s largest prehistoric rock art in South America – new study

Jun 05, 2024 04:16 am UTC| Nature

We werent the first to lay eyes on the engraving since it was carved into the hillside any number of centuries or millennia ago, not by a long shot. The Venezuelan archaeologist José Maria Cruxent even recorded it...

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By not mining vital minerals, NZ is ‘offshoring its own environmental footprint’ – is that fair?

Jun 05, 2024 04:09 am UTC| Nature

When Resources Minister Shane Jones recently unveiled his draft strategy for mineral mining, it was quickly criticised by the Labour opposition as taking New Zealand backwards. One environmental group even called it a love...

The emerald ash borer has arrived in B.C. — what can we do about it?

Jun 05, 2024 04:08 am UTC| Nature

The emerald ash borer (EAB) is a deceptively beautiful insect. As the first part of the name implies, the one-centimetre long beetles are an iridescent, metallic green. They have large, dark eyes and some might even call...

Groundwater is heating up, threatening life below and above the surface

Jun 05, 2024 04:07 am UTC| Nature

Under your feet lies the worlds biggest reservoir. Groundwater makes up a whopping 97% of all usable freshwater. Where is it? In the voids between grains and cracks within rocks. We see it when it rises to the surface in...