Countries across Europe are scrambling to accelerate COVID-19 vaccinations and outpace the spread of the more infectious delta variant, in a race to prevent hospital wards from filling up again.
While working along the Restigouche River between the border of New Brunswick and Quebec, Forest Condo, a ranger with the Listuguj Mi’kmaq First Nation, came across a steller’s eagle, a bird native to eastern Russia and rarely seen in North America.
As the mining industry heats up in northwestern Ontario, a First Nation in Treaty 9 territory has applied for an injunction to stop mineral exploration and protect a sacred area within their traditional territory.
Wet-bulb temperatures prevent the body from cooling down. Modelling suggests that if society we don’t bring down greenhouse gas emissions, wet-bulb temperatures could regularly exceed dangerous benchmarks in parts of the world this century.