Canada's Environmental Voice
The warmer weather is coaxing humans and wildlife alike out of their dwellings and thus, human-wildlife interactions are on their annual upswing. These may include magical moments like listening to a frog chorus, admiring a bush bustling with songbirds, or glimpsing a fawn wobbling along; however, not all human-wildlife interactions […]
It’s remarkable that ants can carry 50 times their body weight, that there are 34,000 species of spiders in the world and that a mosquito flaps its wings 500 times per second. Impressive indeed. But we tend to lose appreciation for the wonders of nature when they’re buzzing annoyingly around […]
It could have been worse. When the Department of Fisheries and Oceans announced on May 3 that a Grass carp caught in the Grand River near Lake Erie was sterile, biologists and invasive species experts on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border could breathe a sigh of relief. But not […]
For most people, the word formaldehyde conjures up memories of grade 10 biology and the pungent scent of preserved frogs. It has a toxic reputation and lurks in some fairly dodgy places – smog, car fumes, tobacco smoke and embalming fluids. Formaldehyde is commercially produced from petroleum and used in […]
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In India, a man sleeping on a mat on the floor stirs, woken up by his wife’s bustling morning activities. Just like you or I, he tosses and turns, yearning for another few minutes of sleep. Yet his mind is overflowing with worries, and matters of life and death. The […]
Covered in toxic black fumes and sweat racing from head to toe, boys and young men in the Agbogbloshie slum in Ghana’s capital city, Accra, hammer away at discarded cellphones, computers and refrigerators. The land, including nearby Korle Lagoon, is completely concealed beneath shattered parts and the insides of electronics. […]
This year is a critical one for Canadians. Through the course of 2013, major decisions are being made that will determine the scale and magnitude of Canadian oil development for decades to come. The US government will decide whether or not to approve the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline […]
Around the time of the financially disastrous OPEC oil embargo of the 1970s, Shell decided to see how far they could look into the future. What other shocks might be in store and what might they mean for oil? They fleshed out a series of plausible futures, exploring potential consequences […]
Knowing the Land is Resistance (KLR) has been running nature exploration workshops in southwestern Ontario for three years, demonstrating to participants how to (re)connect with the natural world around them, in any setting. I attended a very different KLR workshop in Waterloo in March, at which they presented five starting points […]
