Wasp Venom Can Save Lives. But the Supply Chain Is Shaky.
UNDARK — Venom is crucial to make medicines for those with severe allergic reactions to wasp, hornet, and yellow jacket stings.
Posts Categorized: environment
How Ron Pittaway developed his acclaimed winter finch forecast
LIVING BIRD MAGAZINE, Winter 2020 — Pittaway has made it his mission to lend some predictability to winter finch sightings by compiling intelligence from his network of naturalists across Canada and the U.S. and analyzing the data to reveal his predictions.
In Canada’s boreal forest, a new national park faces the wrongs of the past — and guards our climate future
AUDUBON — Thaidene Nëné, declared this summer, is a milestone for an Indigenous-led conservation movement that can help keep carbon in the ground and protect crucial habitat as the planet warms.
Researchers pull together to get fuller picture of Greenland sled dog
ARCTIC TODAY — For more than 10,000 years, dogs have been an integral part of Arctic culture. They have guided sleds across frozen seas, barked warnings of polar bears and sniffed out seal breathing holes.
Even small reductions in warming matter to the Arctic
ARCTIC TODAY — A difference of half a degree Celsius would make a huge difference in the future of the Arctic. A carbon sequestration project in Iceland offers hope of keeping warming under control.