Beaches, parks, streets, shorelines, and other places that Canadians care about are covered in plastic. The public is now demanding action. There is a long-term plan to deal with plastic pollution that includes a ban on some single-use plastics in the short term. There is a lot of evidence, facts, and rigorous science …
The Canadian government is pressing for a ban on single use plastics. Read More »
In May, Scott Stanley Matthew Steer was found guilty of five violations of the Fisheries Act. A few hours after midnight on March 2, 2020, officials found Steer illegally fishing for crab in the Vancouver harbor. They were told about it by the Vancouver SeaBus. He was told to stop by a fisheries enforcement …
It was once one of the best-known museums in Iraq, but now it’s getting a second chance thanks to restoration efforts backed by French experts. They were broken into pieces when ISIS fighters took over the northern city of Mosul in 2014 and used it as their capital for three years. »We need to …
ISIS damaged Iraqi artifacts, which are now being restored by an Iraqi museum. Read More »
There are now 73 percent of new COVID cases in the U.S. that are caused by Omicron. The national rate says that more than 650,000 people in the US got omicron infections last week. When US got infected with delta variants at the end of June, they were mostly the ones that got …
Omicron has spread across the US, accounting for 73% of new COVID cases Read More »
Researchers found a single rule for how animals make decisions about where to move while they’re moving. Virtual reality has been used by a group of researchers from the University of Konstanz and the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior in Germany to figure out how animals choose where to go when there …
Can you leave decision-making to a single algorithm? Read More »
The syphilitic bunnies at an Edmonton cemetery have been killed off by a very rare rabbit disease. Few, if any, are still alive. “It was a very viral virus that rapidly ran through the colony and killed essentially all the feral domestic rabbits,” Margo Pybus, a wildlife disease expert at the University of Alberta, said …
A uncommon rabbit sickness has wiped out Edmonton’s syphilitic graveyard rabbits. Read More »
The fossil is made up of the bones of a creature called Arthropleura, which lived 326 million years ago. This is more than 100 million years before the Age of Dinosaurs. It shows that Arthropleura was the biggest invertebrate animal ever found. It was bigger than the ancient sea scorpions that were the previous …
President Joe Biden will announce on Tuesday that the government has bought half a billion at-home rapid Covid-19 tests and plans to give them away for free to Americans who request them through a website. This is one of a number of new steps he’ll take as the country faces a potentially crippling surge …
In the beginning, two injections are given one month apart, and then every two months after that. Apretude or oral cabotegravir can be used to see how well patients can take the drug for four weeks. Participants who took Apretude started the study with cabotegravir and a placebo every day for up to five weeks. …
FDA Approves First HIV Pre-Exposure Injectable Treatment Read More »
The Artificial Plant Habitat is like a space terrarium that isn’t much bigger than a microwave. It has red and green peppers that jut out at 45-degree angles. The peppers whirl around their heads until the astronauts catch them and tape them to a piece of paper to take a picture of them. Astronauts …
Challenges of space farming: Growing peppers on the ISS Read More »
