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Time outdoors is good for kids. Educators are giving it to them

As children spend less time outdoors, compelling new research — and reimagined schoolyards — point the way back.

nationalobserver.com

How to stitch a massive wildlife corridor through the Rocky Mountains

BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada — On a sunny Thursday in May, Kent Kebe had to scrape yet another bighorn sheep carcass off Highway 93/95 running through Radium, British Columbia. The necropsy confirmed what...

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The Next Pandemic May Already Be Brewing | The Walrus

Bird flu has crossed into cows, infected humans, and spread across continents. Experts are deeply uneasy

thewalrus.ca

Killer whale moms have it tough and drone imagery proves it | CBC Climate Change News

New Canadian-led research into northern resident killer whales suggests even when food is plentiful, orca moms struggle to regain body fat when they have more living offspring.

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Shrinking cold-water habitat means more whales get caught in nets, research finds | CBC News

Humpback whales are more likely to get entangled in fishing gear in years when rising ocean temperatures make cold-water habitat harder to find, according to new research published Wednesday.

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ANALYSIS | Bird watching may build better brains, study says | CBC Radio

A new study looking at the brains of expert birdwatchers found they were structurally more efficient, allowing them to retain details and absorb new information better than non-experts.

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B.C. to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time | CBC News

March 8 will be the last time British Columbians have to change their clocks, B.C. Premier David Eby announced Monday.

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Science journalism on the ropes worldwide as US aid cuts bite

Federal freezes to foreign assistance are affecting grants for investigative reporters everywhere — but especially in poorer countries.

nature.com

Why an Arctic icon, the snowy owl, must wait so long for legal protection | CBC Climate Change News

Snowy owls that once glided across wide open spaces of the Arctic tundra are seeing their homes shrink under thickening shrubs. They face a gauntlet of other threats, all of which decimate their numbe...

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This creature may have been the first four-legged herbivore | CBC News

This football-sized creature could grind its teeth like a hard-core plant-eater, back before that was really a thing — and it may be the earliest vertebrate herbivore ever found.

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Winter snow is declining in key watersheds across Canada, raising concerns about future water supply | CBC News

Declining snowpack can affect everything from municipal water systems and agriculture to lake levels, shipping and wildfire risk in Canada’s forests.

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Ancient people had nautical tech, know-how to cross hazardous Arctic channel | CBC News

Archeologists have found the remains of a cluster of tents with hearths on a remote High Arctic island that date back more than 4,000 years. They offer surprising new insights about the first people w...

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Canada could remove 5 times its annual carbon emissions by planting trees on edge of boreal forest, study finds

Planting trees on 6.4 million hectares of northern taiga forest could remove 3.9 gigatons of CO2 by 2100 — five times Canada's annual emissions.

livescience.com

Something very unexpected is happening to Norway’s polar bears

Scientists are baffled by the results from new Arctic research.

vox.com

Federal government job cuts: Here's what we know | CBC News

A host of departments issued "workforce adjustment notices" to thousands of employees in the third week of January.

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Here is the latest on possible job cuts in the federal public service

Hundreds of public servants have already received layoff notices in Ottawa and across Canada, as the federal government begins to issue notices of potential job cuts in departments. CTVNewsOttawa.ca l...

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How ‘forest bathing’ keeps lungs healthy

Wooded environments release organic compounds that seem to improve respiratory health, but the magnitude and mechanism of the effect remains unclear.

nature.com

Is it time to ‘Save the Whales’ all over again?

Forty years after the end of commercial hunting, whales face an increasing threat from global shipping

dialogue.earth

Cape Breton groups alarmed as more Atlantic salmon deemed endangered | CBC News

Some Atlantic salmon conservation groups in Cape Breton are raising the alarm after a federal advisory committee changed the fish's status to endangered throughout Nova Scotia and the southern Gulf of...

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Appeals court upholds ban on fish farms in B.C.'s Discovery Islands

Proponents of salmon farm ban say several wild salmon populations have rebounded since their closure

biv.com

​Coral report

B.C.’s oceans are turning acidic faster than once thought, study finds

piquenewsmagazine.com

B.C. would struggle to contain oil spill off north coast, research suggests

Decades of research shows waves, wind and darkness would defeat containment efforts for much of the year, raising questions about new oil export plans

biv.com

Tens of thousands of marine animals killed or maimed by 'ghost gear'

Federal data collected over four years have shown that derelict fishing gear is an underestimated threat. Some experts say it is diminishing both ocean life and fisheries.

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