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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Common murres look like skinny penguins but fly like F-15 fighter jets. The North Pacific seabirds can quickly cover hundreds of kilometres searching for schools of small forage fish.

It is always reassuring when an assumption developed over decades and often learned through bitter experience, is validated not only by academic research but now, finally, by government itself.

We live on a changing planet. Unnaturally rapid global warming is altering everything, including lands and waters. Evidence shows we’ve already emitted enough greenhouse gases to alter the structure of ecosystems and interactions within them.

New Zealand’s Whakaari/White Island erupted suddenly in December.

There’s something that excites me about the possibility of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle living here in the capital region. We know they’ve stayed here, but I don’t know if this is where they are planning to stay.

Some readers will doubtless recognize the reference to E.F. Schumacher’s classic 1973 book Small is Beautiful, in which he introduced the world to the concept of “Buddhist economics.

No one disputes that some people are victims — of others, accidents and life. But we also all know someone who thinks like a victim.

Things, it seems, are spinning out of control. South of the border, U.S. President Donald Trump has been impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, only the third time in history an American president has suffered that indignity.

Join the Victoria Chinatown Lioness Club in welcoming Chinese New Year at their annual banquet, Feb. 1 at the Golden City Restaurant. This is the 26th year of the event, the most important fundraiser of the year for the service club.

The Victoria Hand Project will soon be lending a hand to amputees living in remote and underserved regions in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ and the U.S. The University of Victoria initiative recently received a $1-million award from the 2019 TD Ready Challenge.