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Less acid rain has actually posed problems for Maritime corn crops

Less sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere is believed to have had an impact on corn quality in the Maritimes.In 2018, Dan MacEachern, a research biologist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in P.E.I.,...

Whale song shows ‘hallmarks’ of human language

There's a reason "antidisestablishmentarianism" is more a piece of trivia than vital to the English language. Because a word that long is not what human language favours. According to experts, we tend...

Leave it to beavers to save farmland from drought in the face of climate change

Cattle farmer Jay Wilde's Idaho ranch had been threatened by devastating droughts for years. And he knew if his land ran out of water completely, it would be the end of...

Pioneering brain surgery gives B.C. woman her voice back

Twenty years ago, Susan O'Sullivan was working full-time with the Ministry of Forests and volunteering as a singer at her local art centre when her voice began to crack. "There was some...

Vineyards in B.C.’s Okanagan test new ways to mitigate extreme cold

Bobby Arcego pulls back a thick layer of straw, exposing the young grapevine underneath.As vineyard manager of Black Hills Estate Winery in Oliver, B.C., this is one of the new methods,...
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