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Markers on glass act like a stop sign to let birds know where it isn’t safe to fly © Brendon Samuels
As many as 42 million birds are killed in Canada each year by colliding with glass on buildings. Birds do not understand reflections and fail to detect glass that appears transparent. Collisions can happen anywhere where birds encounter glass windows, balcony railings or transportation shelters, and represent a leading source of bird deaths in the ...
Plastic waste including pharmaceutical containers, Lake Ontario © Duncan Rawlinson CC BY-NC 2.0
It is hard to look away from the tragedy the opioid crisis has wreaked on human lives in Canada. The Government of Canada estimates that 21 people will die every day from opioid overdoses in Canada. The rage and hurt that the opioid epidemic has caused can be wholly consuming, but this goes beyond human ...
January 31, 2025–Carly Davenport
Great horned owl © Paul Janosi
The lethal impact of toxic rodenticides reaches far beyond their intended target: rodents. Like other pesticides, scientists are uncovering just how ubiquitous rodenticides are in the environment. The sight of the black bait station boxes outside buildings is so common that people may not pay them much attention. Some pest control companies make people believe ...
January 15, 2025–Tony Morris
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Sydenham River Nature Reserve, Fall Planting Event 2023 © Kayla Salive
In December 2024, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) released a new assessment report on progress towards halting biodiversity collapse. This latest international report again highlights the urgency of addressing global biodiversity loss and presents a roadmap to drive fundamental, or in this case, transformative societal changes to halt and reverse ...
Plastic litter and debris © Todd Wade CC BY 2.0
In 2022, the worldwide production of plastics reached over 400 million metric tonnes, marking an increase of about 1.6 percent from the previous year. With mounting pressure to find a solution to our plastic addiction, the United Nations Environmental Assembly voted to create the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution (INC). By the end of ...
Laurel Creek Conservation Area © Carl Hiebert / Grand River Conservation Authority