Tag Archives: Environment

Some whales sing low enough to be 'acoustically invisible' to predators: research
New research suggests male baleen whales looking for love sing a different tune when attracting a mate, and it all depends on if they are more likely to fight or flee from a predator. Killer whales ar...
Feb 13, 2025

Massive winter storm prompts weather warnings across several provinces
HALIFAX - Environment Canada issued a flurry of weather warnings Wednesday as a huge winter storm was forecast to descend across parts of Ontario and Quebec and quickly spread to Atlantic Canada. "The...
Feb 12, 2025

Plans change for proposed ParticiPARK in La Ronge
It appears a planned ParticiPARK in La Ronge might not go ahead after all. The project, which was originally meant to break ground in 2024, was the topic of discussion at a regular town council meetin...
Feb 11, 2025

Air Ronge invested $90K on Heritage Trail in 2024
A considerable amount of work went into Air Ronge's Heritage Trail in 2024 with even more improvements set to occur in 2025. Last year, village council spent nearly $90,000 on the trial with about $28...
Feb 11, 2025

Saving species 'not rocket science,' but few faring better than long ago: researcher
Researcher Laurenne Schiller says "it's not rocket science" that recovery for threatened or endangered species in Canada is driven by stopping the primary cause for their decline. "If you take away th...
Feb 09, 2025

'Should I just laugh?': Energy experts question Freeland's pledge to push LNG
OTTAWA - Liberal leadership candidate Chrystia Freeland's pitch to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) to allies is drawing skeptical reactions from those who say her government neglected the sector ov...
Feb 08, 2025

Latest scale aims to weigh if chubby endangered B.C. marmots have more babies
Vancouver Island marmots can be a little shy when it comes to revealing their weight. After two years of work, technicians and researchers with Vancouver Island University and the Wilder Institute are...
Feb 07, 2025

Quebec zoo announces death of Shaboola, first white rhino born in Canada
MONTREAL - A Quebec zoo is mourning the death of Shaboola, a 45-year-old white rhino who was the first of her species born in Canada. The Granby zoo announced this week the rhino had been euthanized a...
Feb 07, 2025

'Historical moment': 11 Yellowstone bison transferred to Sask First Nations
A family of 11 Yellowstone bison from the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes in Montana have been reintroduced to their ancestral land of Mosquito, Grizzly Bear's Head, Lean Man (MGBHLM) First Nat...
Feb 07, 2025

Trump's choice for chief trade negotiator says tariff threat is about fentanyl
WASHINGTON - The man likely to be named the United States' chief trade negotiator argued Thursday that President Donald Trump's tariff threat against Canada is about fentanyl trafficking as he faced q...
Feb 06, 2025