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Orcas and dolphins caught on video by researchers collaborating to forage, hunt salmon | CBC News Researchers from Dalhousie University were trying to study how northern resident orcas find salmon to eat, but they ended up finding an unexpected symbiosis with another species — dolphins.

Orcas and dolphins caught on video collaborating to hunt salmon www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

New calf born to endangered southern resident orcas - BC News Researchers are celebrating a new calf born to the critically endangered southern resident killer whale population.

New calf born to endangered southern resident orcas - BC News www.castanet.net/news/BC/5887...

A rare bright spot for whales: Decades of conservation pay off for endangered population in Canada Populations of northern bottlenose whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus), playful animals that resemble large dolphins, stretch across the Atlantic Ocean, with each group of whales living year-round in a…

A rare bright spot for whales: Decades of conservation pay off for endangered population in Canada news.mongabay.com/2025/12/a-ra... 🧪🦑🌎

Endangered whale's 3,000-mile journey from Ireland to Boston shocks scientists A North Atlantic right whale spotted off Ireland last year has made an "extraordinary" 3,000-mile journey to Boston, scientists say.

Endangered whale's 3,000-mile journey from Ireland to Boston shocks scientists - CBS Boston 🧪🌎🦑

Document reveals approval to harvest remnant old-growth in B.C.‘s northwest British Columbia's logging agency has changed a policy that conserved remnant old-growth forest in the province's northwest, with a government briefing note showing a plan to open those areas for

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Why was 'incredible' giant cedar cut down, despite B.C.'s big-tree protection law? | CBC News Conservationists are questioning why an old-growth yellow cedar tree with a diameter that should have ensured its protection and a buffer area around it under provincial law was logged.

Why was 'incredible' giant cedar cut down, despite B.C.'s big-tree protection law? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

2 top climate advisers quit saying Carney government is ignoring its experts | CBC News Two members of the federal government’s Net-Zero Advisory Body have resigned, saying its work is being ignored by Ottawa as it moves away from previous climate commitments and toward new oil and gas p...

2 top climate advisers quit saying Carney government is ignoring its experts www.cbc.ca/news/science...

The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...

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The best science and nature books of 2025 From the threat of superintelligent AI to the dangers of overdiagnosis; plus the evolution of language and the restless genius of Francis Crick

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The Ten Best Science Books of 2025 From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year

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Opinion: Vancouver must go wild – for the good of us all The city needs to make a real effort to preserve its forest canopy

Great piece about urban biodiversity, from my old friend @margaretmunro.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Science interrupted - University Affairs How the Trump administration’s cuts to U.S. science are derailing Canadian research

Science interrupted: How the Trump administration’s cuts to U.S. science are derailing Canadian research - from @scibri.com universityaffairs.ca/features/fea...

Science on shaky ground: Canadian research shifts in the wake of US cuts Scientists hunt for the silver lining amid the changing funding landscape.

Science on shaky ground: Canadian research shifts in the wake of US cuts - from @ljevanso.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Is this the moment Canada gets serious about science and the economy? The federal budget includes $1.7-billion to attract international researchers and support Canadian R&D and IP protections

Is this the moment Canada gets serious about science and the economy? www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Canada’s research and scientific spending is declining relative to other nations, report says Low rate of R&D investment plays key role in productivity crisis, according to Council of Canadian Academies

Canada’s research and scientific spending is declining relative to other nations, report says www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e93470d...

Near-sinking barge off of BC coast stokes fears over oil tanker threats A loaded barge taking on water and the disastrous Nathan E. Stewart diesel spill underscore the dangers of oil tankers in B.C.’s coastal waters, Coast First Nations say.

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Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.

Bizarre and disturbing article: Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era - thelocal.to/investigatin...

We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.

We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

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LNG expansion could bring 200 more tankers a year to B.C.’s West Coast, report says More than 800,000 people in B.C. and Washington state live within 10 kilometres of the approved tanker routes. Find out more.

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The winners of the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Audio Gold Award, including Science Friday's Flora Lichtman for "The Leap."

Congratulations to the 2025 winners of the international @aaas.org Kavli Science Journalism Awards! Read the full list of this year's winners—including journalists from Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom: bit.ly/4oCwZtq

Congrats to @isabellegroc.bsky.social for her Silver Award for a magazine article funded by Sitka Biodiversity Reporting Grants.

How logging has sent B.C. forests into freefall | The Narwhal A Sierra Club BC report reveals a gap between B.C.’s forestry promises, including old-growth deferrals, and reality

B.C.’s century-long feast on big, old trees has sent forests into freefall: thenarwhal.ca/bc-forests-l...

Canada officially loses its measles elimination status The return of measles has been largely attributed to lower childhood vaccination rates

Canada officially loses its measles elimination status www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

How Carney’s first budget impacts the environment | The Narwhal Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget scales back many Trudeau-era environmental programs and creates a youth climate corps

These are the environmental programs to be cut under Carney’s first budget: thenarwhal.ca/carney-budge...

Down a Forgotten River | The Tyee Travel with me along the Chemainus, a ribbon of life defined by logging, floods, droughts, a lawsuit — and hope.

Down a Forgotten River: Travel with me along the Chemainus, a ribbon of life defined by logging, floods, droughts, a lawsuit — and hope. via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

Photo displaying the covers of the books and photos of the authors who won the SWCC 2024 Book Awards.

🎉📚 Congratulations to the SWCC 2024 Book Awards winners 🎉📚

We want to thank all publishers and authors for submitting a total of 62 (!) books, showing us again the diversity and abundance of Canadian Science Literature 📖

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The Big Bad Wolf Is Afraid of You

The Big Bad Wolf Is Afraid of You www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/s...