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A new way to fight climate change: cataloguing the DNA of the Arctic Ocean

Scientists are collecting DNA from the Arctic Ocean to create a better map of climate change and environmental health ...
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Are environmental risks making Canada’s doctor shortage more acute?

The doctor shortage is a national problem. Worries about health-care risks in industrial and disaster-prone areas may be a ...
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Cut through a wetland: how Ontario’s losing a critical ecosystem

A developer built a trail through a wetland near Orillia, catching neighbours and the township by surprise. Across Ontario, ...
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A decade of fighting over a controversial mining project in Manitoba — and still no decision

After a decade of local opposition, political scandal and changing plans, the Sio Silica project’s fate is still up in the ...
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What it takes to dig up the dirt in Alberta

The Alberta Energy Regulator allowed oil and gas company MAGA Energy to take over nearly 200 new wells — despite its huge ...
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Annie Burns-Pieper

Annie Burns-Pieper is an investigative and health reporter whose work spans nearly 15 years with national teams at The Globe and Mail, CBC, CTV and Global. Her international reporting has appeared in ...
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Deer are destroying B.C. island ecosystems. Indigenous hunting could be the solution

The Gulf Islands around Vancouver Island are beautiful — full of lakes and sheltered bays, and dotted with meadows and deer grazing along the road. At first glance, most walking through these islands ...
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In Tlingit territory, the fight to protect herring is complicated

Though his father is a famous carver, it’s not lost on writer Julian Brave NoiseCat that their Secwépemc and St’at’imc ancestors were best-known for their intricate weaving. In his new book We ...
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Who’s responsible for train-wildlife deaths? B.C. and Ottawa give different answers

B.C.’s minister of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship hopes to start working with the federal government toward a strategy to prevent train-wildlife collisions in the new year. “It’s really ...
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Fast track to where? Carney’s major projects list stirs up emotions, and not much else

We’ve all pondered the sound of a tree falling in the forest. Many have also sought the answer to life, the universe and everything. But have enough of us considered the philosophical quandary of ...