Ski seasons at many of North America’s western resorts might melt away by 2085 because of warming temperatures.
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Indigenous Knowledge Puts Industrial Pollution in Perspective
A 3-year project documents how climate change is affecting the sequestration of decades-old mining by-products in Canadian lakes.
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What Wildfire Smoke Tells Us About Nuclear Winter
A cloud of smoke from 2017 Canadian wildfires was so huge that it self-lofted and stayed in the atmosphere for 8 months. Scientists used it as an example for climate simulations of nuclear warfare.
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The Toxic Legacy of DDT Lives On in Remote Canadian Lakes
DDT and its breakdown products permeate lake sediments decades after the pesticide was banned.
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When Water Met Rock
Geologists discover rocks bearing the earliest known evidence of water interacting with rock on Earth’s surface.
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Satellite Imagery Reveals Plastic Garbage in the Ocean
Using high-resolution satellite data, scientists pinpoint discarded plastics floating off the coasts of Canada and Scotland.
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King of the Tyrannosaurs Goes on Display
The biggest, oldest T. rex found to date shows how big tyrannosaurs could get.
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Before Canadian Scientists Can Study Tornadoes, They Have to Find Them
A yearlong project aims to find more than 150 “missing” tornadoes thought to hit Canada each year.
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More Evidence Humans Migrated to the Americas via Coastal Route
A new chronology shows that ice-free areas existed along the British Columbia coast earlier than previously thought.
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Ancient Faults Amplify Intraplate Earthquakes
A comparison of deformation rates from Canada’s Saint Lawrence Valley offers compelling evidence that strain in the region is concentrated along ancient structures from previous tectonic cycles.