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Dressed For The Woods, 2013 by UK sculptor Nicola Hicks #WomensArt #Imbolc

Standing Proud... Early morning. Brock The Bald Eagle (Husband of Briana), surveying his territory, while also enjoying the fresh air and scenery. Check out his talons!! So handsome.
🦅🪶📸 🇨🇦
#BaldEagle #Raptor #Birds #BirdsOfPrey #Photography #BirdPhotography
#Wildlife #Nature #OntarioParks #Canada

On The Move... Early evening. Coco The Eastern Coyote, totally focused, as she prepares for her evening hunt. Incredibly beautiful and extremely intelligent. 🐺📸🇨🇦
#EasternCoyote #CanisLatransVar #Mammals #Nature
#Wildlife #OntarioParks #Canada

Native plant seeds from critically endangered Garry Oak ecosystems to be preserved vancouversun.com/news/native-...

Bald cypress with many knees and some geese

Canada Geese in the cypress knees ... 🪶

Lots of good guesses and many of you got it right. It's a river otter. While we're used to seeing them in the water, they are active all winter and slide on their bellies in the snow, creating these tracks. #mammals

Acalyptrate flies - Alex Wild A gallery of various acalyptrate flies.

Gosh I have photographed a lot of flies over the years.

A mink mid run on some ice. In the foreground is water that isn’t frozen.

Did see a mink run across the frozen sections of the lake today though!

AI, data centre companies will have to compete for electricity in B.C. | CBC News Prospective data centres and artificial intelligence (AI) companies in B.C. will have to compete for electricity from B.C. Hydro under new provincial legislation.

AI and data centre companies will inevitably lead to higher expenses for power grids and to bills rising for everyone to feed their insatiable power needs
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Nation could really use Catherine O'Hara to deal with passing of Catherine O'Hara OTTAWA - Following the passing of screen and comedy legend Catherine O'Hara, nationwide reports indicate that the only thing Canadians could use to cheer them up from their grief is Catherine O'Hara.

Nation could really use Catherine O'Hara to deal with passing of Catherine O'Hara

‘The narwhals stop calling’: how the noise from ships is silencing wildlife in the Arctic Evidence that the whales and other marine animals are particularly vulnerable to sound is driving calls for quieter vessels

With Premier Kinew's, and others, talk of increasing shipping out of the Port of Churchill and other Northern ports the effects of ship noise is in the news again.
This article talks about the some of the research done in Canada.
It also mentions that some
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Danielle Goyette wearing a red Team Canada hockey jersey with a white maple leaf logo, smiling while holding up a gold medal in her right hand. A red Canadian flag is draped behind her, flowing upward as she raises her left arm. She is photographed against a light, neutral background.

Happy birthday to Danielle Goyette, born on this day in 1966 in Saint-Nazaire, Quebec!
She won eight Abby Hoffman Cups, two Olympic golds and eight World Championships.
Danielle is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame and the IIHF Hall of Fame.

Photo of the dry, brown fruit of Nypa, along with one fruit that has been cut longitudinally to show the ruminate endosperm and the seedling (Nypa is viviparous). Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

When I used a band saw to cut Nypa fruticans seeds in half, I was surprised to find ruminate endosperm. The literature said this palm has homogeneous endosperm. It turns out, it has both. Endosperm condition can vary within a species. #Arecaceae #seed #endosperm #ruminate #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Toxic chemicals permeate the food we eat. Here’s how to design them out Just over 60 years ago, scientist and conservationist Rachel Carson warned that modern societies were contaminating the ecosystems they depend on with “dangerous and even lethal materials”.

Toxic chemicals permeate the food we eat. Here’s how to design them out www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

NDP urges territory to grant Yukon River personhood | CBC News Personhood is a concept where entities in nature — be it mountains, animals, forests or rivers — are afforded rights akin to human beings.

NDP urges territory to grant #Yukon River personhood

Party has tabled motion calling on territory to create legislation in step with First Nations

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Dr. Jane once said that most people, even when they know about problems and become aware of solutions, "do nothing because they feel useless and hopeless and helpless."

We need to move past that.

Video: Concordia University

Prime minister meets Heated Rivalry stars, pays tribute to hit show 'that could only be made in Canada' | CBC

Next will be a tariff on the show 🤭
Carney praised the show's creators, showrunners and stars for its reach, its Canadian roots and its 2SLGBTQ+ story, giving Tierney props for deciding to make the show in Canada after American studios had asked him to "tone it down."

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FBI director tells Americans not to bring guns to protests, schools still okay WASHINGTON – Following the killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti in Minneapolis, FBI director Kash Patel has advised American citizens participating in anti-ICE demonstrations to leave their firearms at home...

FBI director tells Americans not to bring guns to protests, schools still okay

Three orthographic maps showing 2-m air temperature anomalies in December 2025, October 2025 to December 2025, and January 2025 to December 2025. Red shading is shown for warmer anomalies, and blue shading is shown for colder anomalies. Most areas are warmer than average. The mean temperature anomaly for each map is also displayed. Anomalies are calculated relative to a 1981-2010 baseline.

Temperature anomalies averaged over the last month (left), 3 months (center), and 12 months (right) across the Northern Hemisphere... December had a warm Arctic, cold continent temperature anomaly spatial pattern.

Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.

Minneapolis shooting: Tim Walz condemns ‘federal occupation’ as victim identified as Alex Pretti – latest updates Minnesota governor decries ‘federal occupation’ after another deadly shooting less than three weeks after ICE officer killed Renee Good in city

Minneapolis shooting: Tim Walz condemns ‘federal occupation’ as victim identified as Alex Pretti – latest updates

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Shame on CNN

The man killed by a US Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis was an ICU nurse, family says Family members say the man who was killed by a federal officer in Minneapolis was an intensive care nurse at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital who cared deeply about people and was upset by Pr...

MINNEAPOLIS: “Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37, was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed getting in adventures with Joule, his beloved Catahoula Leopard dog who also recently died.” apnews.com/article/immi... - @apnews.com

#Minneapolis #Minnesota #USPoli

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Arctic Fox (Vulpes lagopus) Arctic Fox from Summit Camp, Greenland on April 28, 2012 at 06:17 PM by Scott F Smith

Scotty’s observation of an Arctic Fox near Summit Camp atop the ice cap 🇬🇱🇬🇱🇬🇱 🌿

A brief moment with a few of my neighbours this morning. The deep cold didn’t seem to be bothering them. Deer grow a dense coat for winter and their legs and ears have a counter current system where the blood vessels keep the heat in the core of their body. #mammals 🌿

Woodfibre LNG failed to properly monitor salmon | The Narwhal Woodfibre LNG ‘failed to monitor for juvenile salmon during in-stream construction’ in Squamish, B.C. The infraction wasn’t made public for 4 months

B.C.’s EAO took more than four months to publicly post records showing Woodfibre LNG was out of compliance during construction in Squamish after failing to monitor for juvenile salmon. The company says monitoring continued and no harm was observed. No fines were issued

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B.C. considers expanding black bear hunt in Lower Mainland amid crop damage concerns | CBC News The B.C. government is considering expanding the black bear hunting season in the Lower Mainland to include August. The province says it’s aimed at helping farmers deal with crop damage but some wildl...

This is an absolute shit idea @davidebybc.bsky.social

Photo of several lichens growing on a small tree branch. The centre of the pic shows a roundish, bright orange lichen partially covered in orange discs (apothecia). Other lichen species around the orange lichen are yellow and grey in colour. Combined, the lichens almost completely cover the branch.

Lichens on a stick. The large orange #lichen is a sunburst lichen (Xanthoria sp). NWT, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

I just learned the most amazing tea and I was literally flinging myself around my kitchen like a wacky waving arm inflatable tube guy with the effort of not screaming “I TOLD YOU SO!”

Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo