A federal fish habitat specialist checks the temperature in a Yukon salmon stream. The scientist is now retired, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada is moving away from habitat science.
Credit: Claire Eamer
By Claire Eamer
A lot has been said on this site and others [...]
The hidden impacts of disappearing glaciers
by Sarah Boon
No climate change news story or documentary is complete without a close-up shot of the front of a calving glacier, huge chunks of ice falling dramatically into the heaving ocean. Ominous music plays in the background as the narrator declares doom for glaciers.
It’s true – [...]
by Elizabeth Howell
The dome clanks open. The room-sized telescope swings towards the gap, and fixes on a point in the sky. Peering into the cosmos, the lone astronomer stands below, dwarfed by the telescope.
That view of astronomy is so twentieth century.
Yes, there are still big observatories under construction on the ground. There’s [...]
Greetings fellow CSWA Members;
Effective today, I will be resigning as CSWA President. A number of work opportunities have come up that will require my full attention and would make continuing to contribute as a regular volunteer with the CSWA impossible.
Therefore, I have asked
(Above, a parody from CBC’s Rick Mercer Report entitled “PMO Pest Control: Got Science?“)
A few weeks ago, CSWA members participated in a panel discussion at the 2012 AAAS Annual Meeting on the muzzling of government scientists, including what journalists perceive as the muzzling of government-funded scientists in Canada (full [...]
