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Rare white beaver wows Ottawa wildlife watchers | CBC News Ottawa wildlife photographers have captured stunning images of a rare leucistic beaver.

Rare white beaver wows #Ottawa wildlife watchers

The leucistic rodent has been spied on several ocassions near Perth, Ont.

#SpiritBeaver #Canada 🦫 🍁

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Crawford Lake A quiet lake in Ontario is making a lot of noise.Sediments from the bottom of a small lake in Ontario are revealing a remarkable record of our impact on the planet.Just outside Toronto, Ontario lies a...

On now until Sept. 13, 2026, Crawford Lake illustrates how everything from early agriculture to modern nuclear weapons testing has left its mark on this unassuming Canadian lake - and on the Earth at large.

www.rom.on.ca/whats-on/exh...

#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 185

Results of a recent study indicate that the ‘nectar guides’ on #flowers actually reduce the time a #bumblebee takes to forage a flower - from flight approach through nectar location to final take-off - by up to 30%!
#bees
#nature
#science
#wild

Two polar stereographic maps side-by-side showing actual air temperatures in September 2025 on the left and the temperature anomaly on the right for September 2025. Anomalies are calculated relative to a 1981-2010 baseline. All data uses ERA5 reanalysis. Most areas are warmer than average.

Much of the #Arctic Circle observed warmer than average conditions in September 2025. Some of the largest anomalies were over Greenland and northern Canada, though regionally-dependent anomalies were over Siberia.

High resolution version updated monthly for download at zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...

Alaska Wildflower Guide with Photos Alaska wildflower guide with many photos and galleries with identifying information, nomenclature and taxonomy, uses, and links to more references.

I’ve been creating a dedicated page for Alaska Wildflowers, featuring photos, identification details, taxonomy notes, plant uses, and habitat information. It already includes dozens of species, each with its own page and gallery.

Explore the collection here: www.lwpetersen.com/alaska-wildf...

Every Native Rosinweed, Compass Plant, Prairie Dock, & Cup Plant (Silphium Sp.) in the US & Canada
(1/6) #nativeplants

Future Swamp Milkweed

#Milkweed #NativePlants

Tall grass with even long taproots and red stemmed Indian Hemp in yellow leaf stage

Yellow Goldenrod

Native plants on 6 miles of trails today at Glacial Lakes State Park MN

🌱 Prarie Cordgrass www.minnesotawildflowers.info/grass-sedge-... with Indian Hemp www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/india...
🌱 Stiff Goldenrod www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/stiff...

a spike of large, tubular and bilabiate, white and pink flowers growing not quite upright in light green calyces, with a focus on one flower in particular, facing the viewer. the downward-curving top lip is all white expect for a blush of pink near its tip, strongest on the inside of the corolla. the bottom lip has three very shallow lobes, and seem best defined as sections separated by small folds, with the two on the outside sitting lower & mostly colored white, while the middle lobe is raised, colored pink, and has two rows of hair growing, one left and one right. the middle lobe kinda looks like a tongue in the open mouth of this turtlehead flower. the flower's four stamens can also be seen within the corolla tube, curving up around the perimeter of the interior space like ribs and joining together at the top in a fused mass of fuzzy anthers. don't seem to be able to see it's style, but in the empty calyx below this flower, the long white style is all that remains after its corolla has wilted & fallen away.

a cluster of large white and pink flowers growing in a dense terminal spike. below each of the sessile, light green calyces there are two small leaf bracts; the deep lobes of the calyces appear similar. the flower are tubular & mostly white, only turning pink beyond where the two lips part. the upper lip curves downward and serves as a hood over the stamens and style within; the lower lip forms a raised section along its centerline, constricting the mouth of the flower. blooming flowers occur lower on the spike than the buds above; below the open flowers, there is an empty calyx from a faded flower.

a white turtlehead growing on the bank of a small creek running through a hilly forest. the plant's long stem arches out over the shallow stream, heavy with long, broad, oval leaves with many shallow, blunt teeth. there are a few short branches, each one, like the main stem, terminating in a spike of large, tubular, white and pink flowers.

💮 white turtlehead 🌿
Chelone glabra

first time ive caught em in bloom 😌

#nativeplants #flowerreport
#bloomscrolling #bloomsky

Bright red leaves of Virginia creeper against a bed of green grass

The leaves on Virginia creeper turn the most vivid and gorgeous red at this time of year. #nativeplants

🌱 Next Steps for Nature with Doug Tallamy 🌱

Free Wild Ones Webinar!

📅 Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025 | ⏰ 6 PM CT

You asked the questions, and Doug Tallamy has the answers…. 499 of them!

👉Register now: wildones.org/next-steps-f...

A planet-first diet can feed the world by 2050 while improving the environment, new scientific analysis finds Nearly everyone on the planet could have access to nutritious, culturally appropriate food by 2050 — all while improving the environment — if nations work together to implement a “planetary health die...

This planet-first diet is very similar to the new Canada Food Guide created by PM Trudeau and his team a couple of years ago.
And just like then, the meat/dairy industry and conservatives/republicans are denying the science.
More proof the right do not care about
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www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Uprooted: The little known story about Mi’kmaw history of forced relocation - APTN News APTN Investigates looks at the little known stories about relocation in Mi'kmaw communities in Nova Scotia.

And living as a settler historian in Mi'kma'ki, there's the history of forced relocation that is generally quietly ignored, despite being recent and awful and with lived and living impacts:

www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

Photo of a leafy, creeping vine bearing heart-shaped leaves and a single morning-glory flower.

Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) originated in South America but was widely grown throughout Polynesia well before European contact. Many anthropologists cite the sweet potato as evidence that ancient Polynesians had contact with S. America. 📷: Scamperdale CCBYNC2 #Convolvulaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Close up of white and yellow flowers

White and yellow flowers with tree trunk behind

Blooming Aster in a garden bed at the base of a sassafras trer

Not 100% sure this is Silky Aster (Symphiotrichum sericeum), given the white flowers vs light lavender, but enjoy it every year. #WhatYouPlantMatters #naturallandscape #nativeplants #grownative #pollinatorgarden #killyourlawn

Could it possibly be a cross with Heath Aster (Symphyotricum ericoides) or another tightly bunched flower cluster? Asters interbreed very easily, I have a hard time finding straight species. Not that it matters, some of the mixes would blow people's socks off!

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew at Orange Shirt Day Pow Wow.

By far, the coolest Premier in Canada.

#Canada
#Manitoba
#PremierKinew

green, tan and dark red tall slender grass blades in bright sun

Fall!
Schizachyrium scoparium
#nativeplants

Colton's eyes up close, but the pupil in the right eye is fully dilated (it's almost solid black). Left eye is normal (blue), skin white, hair dark brown.

You guys...have I got a personal health, science, AND gardening SAGA for you! This one is amazing, buckle up.

A couple years ago I looked in the mirror and saw this. I had to suppress my panic because I'm first aid trained and having unevenly dilated pupils is like...pretty bad. 1/n

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A bright red-orange mushrooms grows from beneath a log among dead leaves. The cap is rounded and shiny, and the stem is a softer shade of red-orange. It is Hygrocybe miniata, commonly known as the vermilion waxcap.

A mushroom with a bright yellow stem and cap grows among dead leaves. It has a distinct protruding tip on the cap which gives rise to its nicknames. Entoloma murrayi is also commonly known as the yellow unicorn Entoloma or the unicorn pinkgill.

If you can get into the woods and look at cool mushrooms today, I highly recommend doing so. 🍄📷 🌿

Things are bleak. But there are still things worth enjoying, slowing down for, fighting for.

A coyote perches on a few, small moss-covered ledges sticking out from an otherwise pretty shear limestone cliff. Boreal trees grow on the edges and on top of the cliffs.

A coyote perches on a few, small moss-covered ledges sticking out from an otherwise pretty shear limestone cliff. It's looking down at other coyotes (out of frame) on the ground. Boreal trees grow on the edges and on top of the cliffs.

A large coyote with a decent-sized fish in its mouth pauses in its climb up a limestone cliff. It's partially obscured by the frees growing on the cliffs.

As it turns out, coyotes are good climbers. They loped up and down these limestone cliffs like they were mountain goats. #mammals 🌿

New England Aster flowers.

I found a New England aster in my neighbor's woods. It 100% came from a seed that was produced in my yard and blew over there. 😁

A bundle of Goldenrod seeds zip tied to the tarp handle of a dump truck

A bundle of Goldenrod zip tied to the antenna of a truck

Spreading Solidago (Goldenrod) as I drive the work vehicle #nativeplants

This made my day.

Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between August and November by looking at the decadal average line positions.

Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 11th lowest on record (JAXA data)

• about 110,000 km² above the 2010s mean
• about 1,070,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,190,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,850,000 km² below the 1980s mean

More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

We are all welcome to our opinions.

Imaginary issue? I'm afraid I don't know what you are saying? Changing clocks is entirely disruptive to our circadian rhythm. There is a huge amount of needless money spent on changing clocks for businesses and government. It's a useless disruptive thing that just needs to stop.

If it's not serious, abolish it.

What an absolutely preventable tragedy.