SFU research fellow attacks 'Shark Week' for lack of conservation message
Nobody takes a bigger bite out of Shark Week than David Shiffman. The post-doctoral research fellow at Simon Fraser University is a big critic of the annual Discovery Channel extravaganza — rolling out...
View ArticleTrail cameras, citizen science and satellites combine to provide more...
At this moment, wild creatures all over Wisconsin are unwittingly having their picture taken. A total of 1,300 trail cameras — soon to be expanded to as many as 5,000 — have been deployed across the...
View ArticleResearch shows that wolverines and winter backcountry recreation don't mix
Wolverines may have a reputation for ferocity, but when it comes to winter backcountry recreation they prefer flight over fight. South of the Canada-U.S. border, in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming,...
View ArticleKnitters make socks for homeless moving into modular housing building
This is a yarn about people giving back. Volunteer knitters from Vancouver and as far away as Smithers in the Interior and even Seattle in the U.S. have donated 52 pairs of socks, one for every...
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Metro Vancouver braces for 'extreme' impact of white nose syndrome on bats
When the sun goes down, Burvilla comes alive. Look up at the roof of the 1905-era heritage home at Deas Island Regional Park in Ladner and watch as one set of tiny leathery wings after another squeezes...
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Flying With John: My unexpected seven-hour chat with the Premier of B.C.
John Horgan looked up at me. I looked down at him. And I suspect we both muttered “damn” under our breaths. What are the odds that aisle seat 16C on Air Canada Flight 117 from Toronto to Vancouver...
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Sky's the Limit: Flying with the U.S. Navy Blue Angels and fighting the...
It’s 2 p.m., and Lt. Andre Webb of the elite U.S. Navy Blue Angels aerobatic team taxies his F/A-18 Hornet onto the searing-hot runway at Abbotsford International Airport. “Once we get to our flyway...
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Seattle mayor pressures Premier Horgan for 'immediate halt' to logging near...
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has written Premier John Horgan to express “grave concern” over logging in a critical watershed near the B.C. border, urging that the work be stopped immediately. The letter...
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Risky rescues disentangle B.C. ocean giants from fishing gear
It could be as simple as an anchor or buoy line, a crab or prawn trap, or something bigger — a gillnet or longline fishing gear — floating unseen below the ocean surface. Then, one of the Earth’s...
View ArticleStudy looks at genetic differences in threatened western rattlesnake in B.C.
When a threatened western rattlesnake shows up on your back door step in semi-arid B.C., the last thing on your mind is the unique genetics of the creature. But new research is underway looking into...
View ArticleOceanic birds can smell what the ocean is cooking kilometres away, says U.S....
You know it as the smell of the sea shore, but to wide-ranging oceanic birds with great sniffers, dimethyl sulfide is a sure sign of food ahead. As Gabrielle Nevitt explains, dimethyl sulfide is...
View ArticleClimate change is interfering with internal clocks of birds, and humans...
When birds sing outside your window at dawn, they’re responding to internal clocks set to daily and annual rhythms. But what happens when climate change interferes with these clocks, putting the...
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Historic Tyee Club at Campbell River keeps the dream of 30-pound chinook...
It takes just five minutes for a 14-foot fibreglass boat with wood trim, propelled by a six-horsepower outboard motor, to navigate around Tyee Spit at the mouth of the Campbell River and into a popular...
View ArticlePedestrian dies after being struck by bus in Delta
A man was killed Saturday night in Delta when he was struck by a bus while trying to cross River Road. Read More
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