3+ hour, 27+ min ago  (175+ words) Winnipeg 26° C, Cloudy HALIFAX – Federal researchers want to know where dead seabirds off the coast of Nova Scotia are most likely to wash up, and they’re using a low-tech solution to find out: driftwood. Environment and Climate Change Canada has…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago  (1300+ words) Winnipeg 16° C, Clear ST. JOHN’S – A small team of explorers led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society have become the first people to lay eyes on Sir Ernest Shackleton’s last ship since it sank in the Labrador Sea in 1962. John…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (874+ words) Winnipeg 15° C, Partly cloudy I don’t know what I expected. I mean, I expected nature to win. That, to me, is a given. But I didn’t expect it to win like this, easily rolling with the punches. Rolling on the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (826+ words) Winnipeg 17° C, Cloudy In June, the bellowing and blubbery 5-year-old mammal hauled himself onto land for his twice-yearly tour of beachside towns in southern Tasmania state after months of feeding at sea. That’s posing problems now that he weighs as…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (398+ words) Winnipeg 20° C, Light rain The species’ population has jumped from around 2,000 to around 35,000 in approximately 40 years, close to their population before whaling, said Enrico Marcovaldi, co-founder of the Humpback Whale Project. That means they are increasingly being spotted in Rio’s…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (714+ words) Winnipeg 19° C, Windy The president has often praised, and even compared himself favorably, to Roosevelt, declaring in 2020 that he was, “The number one environmental president since Teddy Roosevelt.” Trump began his second term by trumpeting construction of the Panama Canal…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (596+ words) Winnipeg 15° C, Cloudy On a rainy Wednesday morning, Grade 7 students from École Lacerte traded their classroom desks for rubber boots as they headed out along the Seine River to help plant native shrubs, test water quality, and clean up the…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (730+ words) Winnipeg 11° C, Clear The day six inches of rain fell one early July afternoon is etched in my memories of growing up on a southern Manitoba grain farm in the mid-1960s. While we merrily played in the overflowing ditches, our…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (357+ words) Winnipeg 16° C, Cloudy Bali police seized the live animals during a raid on the island’s Pegametan coast on June 10, after local residents reported suspected illegal turtle trading activity in the area, according to Nanang Pri Hasmojo, head of law enforcement…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (528+ words) Winnipeg 27° C, Windy ST. JOHN’S – A Canadian scientist has found that amputated bits of flesh cut from scarlet sea cucumbers can carry on for years in a strange new form, somewhere between life and death. Sara Jobson is a doctoral…...