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A private member’s bill from Toronto-area NDP MPP Peter Tabuns to ban fracking in the province passed second reading Thursday by a 29-18 vote with support from the governing Liberals. “Water or gas — that’s our choice,” Tabuns explained to the House. “We can’t have both.”
Picture a towering garden overflowing with native wildflowers. Add a Hobbit hole, an Ewok village, an airplane and a pirate ship all made from recycled and repurposed materials. Weave it all together with a network of winding trails and hidden treasures, and what do you get? The most fabulous natural […]
Researchers have recently found evidence that North America’s ancient volcanic eruptions not only dwarf those from modern times, but happened more often than you’d think. Should paleohistory repeat itself, will Canada be ready?
Alwynne Beaudoin is Head Curator, Earth Sciences, and Curator, Quaternary Environments, at the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton. Using plant remains, such as seeds and pollen, she investigates postglacial landscapes, especially in relation to Alberta’s human history. She holds a B.Sc. (Leeds University) and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physical […]
Todd Kristensen is a Regional Archaeologist with Alberta’s Archaeological Survey and a PhD student at the University of Alberta where he studies the historical depth of relationships between First Nations and landscapes in Western Canada. He completed a B.A. at the University of Alberta and an M.A. at Memorial University […]
Originally published on Stephen Bocking’s blog Environment, History, Science. There’s a lot that can be said about the relations between environmental history and science. Historians often use scientific knowledge to figure out past environments – and science itself is a focus of historical study.
Each week, A\J staffers will be sharing our favourite facts & findings from whatever books, articles, documentaries, podcasts and other media we’ve been consuming. Here’s what we’ve learned this week.
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DURING THE 1970S, Kenya began to suffer from increasingly evident ecological decline. Streams were disappearing, watersheds were drying up and the Sahara Desert was encroaching from the north.
For the 100,000 daily commuters who travel on the Don Valley Parkway in to Toronto’s East end, the landscape is likely viewed as a picturesque transportation corridor, if it is noticed at all. Do Torontonians truly understand the valley for all that it has been in the past – a […]
