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Monique Keiran: Christmas Bird Counts reveal disturbing trends

Data we collect may help identify critical environments and save some of the places that make this region a healthy, functioning habitat for birds, other wildlife and humans.

Dec 18, 2022 5:00 PM Read more >

Our Community: Sock snowball fight for charity, students win science fair award

Two SMU students take home the top prize at Science Fair sa国际传媒鈥檚 2022 Youth Innovation Showcase with their self-heating lifejacket, Beavers use donated socks in 鈥榮nowball鈥� fight

Dec 18, 2022 8:30 AM Read more >

Geoff Johnson: Christmas traditions provide kids with sense of security

Family rituals, based on whatever cultural tradition, can bring kids a stabilizing sense of hope, wonder, magic and joy

Dec 18, 2022 12:00 AM Read more >

Trevor Hancock: Reconciliation with the planet includes Indigenous Peoples

In the rush to protect nature, the human rights of Indigenous people should not be violated 鈥� as has happened in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania and Nepal.

Dec 18, 2022 12:00 AM Read more >

'Nibblers and Lions': sa国际传媒 researchers discover new 'supergroup' on tree of life

The microscopic predators are thought to have diverged from other forms of life roughly a billion years ago.

Dec 17, 2022 5:00 AM Read more >

The keepers of Cheewaht: Restoring an ecosystem for generations to come

Restoration of streams that feed Cheewaht Lake in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve is yielding results, as thousands of salmon return to spawn

Dec 11, 2022 5:30 PM Read more >

Charla Huber: The privilege of having everything you want for Christmas

My daughter asked me what I wanted for Christmas. I was sitting in our new living room, on the first new couch I鈥檝e ever purchased in my life, and I said: 鈥淭here is nothing else I need.鈥�

Dec 11, 2022 4:15 PM Read more >

Our Community: For those in need, a chance to get free plumbing or to win a car; giving the gift of sports

For two days, six plumbers with Rather Be Plumbing will take on calls for free for those in need, while the Victoria Cool Aid Society has once again partnered with King鈥檚 Auto Sales to offer a free car to someone deserving

Dec 11, 2022 5:16 AM Read more >

Monique Keiran: Flooding, flu and high costs may chase turkey off Christmas table this year

The sa国际传媒 Poultry Association is warning of possible holiday turkey shortages amid a highly infectious and deadly strain of bird flu, which follows last year鈥檚 flood losses

Dec 11, 2022 5:13 AM Read more >

Trevor Hancock: In tackling biodiversity loss, it's actions that matter, not words

The degradation of nature and loss of biodiversity is a degradation of and loss to humanity, an existential threat to society, and indeed to humanity as a whole.

Dec 11, 2022 5:12 AM Read more >