Canada's Environmental Voice
To go with our hardest-hitting issue yet, the In Defence of Science podcast features frank interviews and discussion on the state of science in Canada. Listen to the A\J podcast to see why Jay Ingram thinks said state is ridiculous and Dr. David Schindler calls it detestable. Clip from A\J’s […]
Andrew Reeves, A\J Current Events blogger and environmental journalist: The latest report from Environmental Defence outlining the myriad of toxic chemicals in men’s personal care products shouldn’t surprise anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of the chemical cocktails swimming around in women’s care products for the past five decades […]
A British startup has figured out how to produce gasoline from air and water.
Like many Canadians, I stood outside this past Sunday, November 11th, at a local cenotaph to commemorate Remembrance Day. I couldn’t help but notice the weather: it was almost 20°C in Toronto and record-breaking weather for Southern Ontario.
Canada largely owes its economic development to natural resources, the vast and (theoretically) sustainable resources like lumber, fish, minerals, agriculture and energy in the form of oil and natural gas. Borrowing liberally from Harold Innis’s iconic The Fur Trade in Canada, hewers of wood and drawers of water we were, […]
I wanted to pursue a master’s degree outside of Canada because I suspected there would be a different culture of environmentalism in every country I visited. I am testing my critical and observational mind because I believe that in order to be a good policy maker you must have a plentitude […]
They will live in the barren drylands, in an uninhabited salty land… Like a tree planted by water… its leaves remain green, and… it does not cease to bear fruit.” – Jeremiah, 17:6-8
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MANY GRADUATE STUDENTS have helped conduct research at Ontario’s Experimental Lakes Area. The dozen scientists profiled below are broadly representative of at least 47 PhD recipients who completed their degrees using research they participated in at the ELA. In addition, more than 80 master’s theses have been produced from ELA […]
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO STUDENT Heather Andrachuk won the Environmental Studies Association of Canada’s annual poster competition. Her poster, Evaluating the Quality of Citizen Science Bee Observations, explores how volunteer observers can be organized to provide reliable data for ecologists.
