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Our Community: Hand project raising funds, Oak Bay votes for fox's den sculpture

The Victoria Hand Project, which helps create prosthetic arms and hands, is working with local partners to open a new clinic in Kyiv, Ukraine

Jan 28, 2024 10:05 AM Read more >

sa国际传媒's kelp forests more ancient than once thought, study finds

Kelp fossils found in the Olympic Peninsula suggest the marine 'forests' are more than 32 million years old, double previous estimates.

Jan 28, 2024 5:15 AM Read more >

Warming seas threaten existence of sea snails in sa国际传媒's Strait of Georgia

A new study has found a rise in marine temperature could spell doom for the Strait of Georgia's dogwhelk population.

Jan 28, 2024 5:00 AM Read more >

Trevor Hancock: The fossil-fuel industry is the new tobacco

Not only does it disregard the wellbeing of people and the planet in its pursuit of profit, it uses many of the same tactics 鈥� even consultants 鈥� as the tobacco industry

Jan 28, 2024 4:55 AM Read more >

Geoff Johnson: Move to ditch SATS raises concerns about relying on school transcripts

The question left hanging is whether the transcripts from high school A are equivalent to those from high school B

Jan 28, 2024 4:45 AM Read more >

David Sovka: Physical violence and other birthday traditions

In Spain, they tug hard on your ear once for every year you鈥檝e lived. In the 1970s sa国际传媒, they banged your bum on the ground, once for every year, and fed you cake containing choking hazards

Jan 28, 2024 4:00 AM Read more >

Community: Classic boat vote, tea dance, art lectures

The Maritime Museum of British Columbia is encouraging the public to vote 鈥� and tell others to vote 鈥� for the SV Dorothy in the 2024 Classic Boat Awards.

Jan 21, 2024 7:30 AM Read more >

Salmon skyline: Fish gondola takes wild coho conservation to new heights

Each fall, upwards of 25 volunteers join an expedition to a remote section of the Vancouver Island river to trap spawning coho to take back to a hatchery at Comox Lake

Jan 21, 2024 5:15 AM Read more >

Songs may help protect silver-haired bats from wind turbines

The discovery that silver-haired bats sing is allowing bat biologists to record their locations, so they aren鈥檛 killed by wind-power development

Jan 21, 2024 5:13 AM Read more >

Monique Keiran: Global climate shifts are redefining winter almost everywhere

The season is acquiring a looser set of characteristic features, harder to specify, more variable and more unpredictable.

Jan 21, 2024 5:11 AM Read more >