Reading Time: 3 minutes Scientists rely on the counts to provide long-term data on the status of individual species and populations of birds in given areas
Author: Geoff Carpentier
Interpreting daytime skies
Reading Time: 4 minutes Sky watching isn’t as simple as looking at fluffy clouds – the sky is a complicated place where multiple phenomena are at work
How trees produce spectacular autumn colours
Reading Time: 4 minutes The intensity of the colours is related to weather conditions before and during the time the chlorophyll in the leaves is declining
Iqaluit and beyond, through snow and ice
Reading Time: 4 minutes Part 3 of a three-part series: Everyone was on high alert, and while the crew sailed and fretted, we watched the parading wildlife
The polar bears were the showstoppers
Reading Time: 4 minutes Travelling ever northward to the vast wilderness of Torngat Mountains National Park
Sailing ever northward in search of wildlife, culture and history
Reading Time: 4 minutes Venturing to rarely-visited sites along the Newfoundland and Labrador coast on the way north
Survival of the fittest, from a very young age
Reading Time: 4 minutes Some orphaned babies are unlikely to survive if very young but others can fend for themselves at an early age
Crickets, grasshoppers, songs and heatwaves
Reading Time: 4 minutes Grasshoppers existed long before dinosaurs. And crickets are eaten, reviled and revered around the world
Jewelweed is a jewel of a weed
Reading Time: 3 minutes Herbalists have long espoused the benefits of jewelweed, primarily as a remedy for the treatment of poison ivy and poison oak rashes
Being careless around poison ivy can cost you
Reading Time: 4 minutes There’s a high likelihood of a rash arising as a result of contact with the plant. Have I mentioned I’m in agony?