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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
During typical summers in the southeastern U.S., streams of visitors travel to Great Smoky Mountains National Park to witness one of nature’s most spectacular displays of light: thousands of male fireflies, all flashing together in near-perfect harmony.
New CU Boulder-led research finds that the traits that make vertebrates distinct from invertebrates were made possible by the emergence of a new set of genes 500 million years ago.
With detected cases of COVID-19 relatively low on Vancouver Island and the province of BC lauded internationally for its comparative success in handling the global pandemic, it'’'s no surprise some residents see a reason to celebrate.
Archaeologists estimate that the I-Kiribati have been living on their islands in the central Pacific Ocean for 2,000 years.
Although less than one per cent of all water in the world is freshwater, it is what we drink and use for agriculture.
Along Vancouver Island’s west coast, the traditional territories of the Tseshaht First Nation span the Broken Group Islands, with thousands of years of pre-colonial history.
