Sri Ray-Chauduri, Environment & Earth Sciences co-editor Did you know there are two Earth Days? April 22nd marks the Earth Day founded by US Senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970. Nelson worked on conservation issues with the Kennedy administration in the early 1960s, and the protests and teach-ins of the era inspired him to do the […]
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Polar Week 3: Arctic seabirds, canaries of global change
GUEST POST by Jennifer Provencher PhD candidate, Biology Department, Carleton University, Ottawa When most people think of the animals that live in polar regions, they think of polar bears or penguins. And although penguins are pretty cool, they are only a part of the amazing diversity of marine birds that make their home at the […]