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‘From loneliness to alone-liness:’ Navigating social needs and solitude as parts of student life

Walking into Chancellor’s Professor Robert Coplan’s office, a person’s eyes may be immediately drawn to a collection of colourful turtle figurines and memorabilia spread...
Dinah Robinson, owner of Bytown Bees, poses in front of her bee hives at her cottage

To bee or not to bee: Why honeybees are living half as long as...

It was almost 9 p.m. one warm June evening on beekeeper Dinah Robinson's four-acre cottage in Douglas, Ont., when suddenly, a familiar high-pitched hum...
A North Atlantic right whale tangled in netting off of Daytona Beach

The key to stopping North Atlantic right whale deaths might be orbiting the planet

It’s June 28, 2020, and Sarah Sharp is on the long strip of beaches near Sandy Hook, N.J., examining the carcass of a North...

‘Nothing temporary about poverty’: Food insecurity remains high in Ottawa amid inflation and pandemic...

It was “like a hurricane,” Rebecca Dorris recalled. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic left grocery store shelves in Ottawa as barren as an...
An open palm holds a mushroom picking pocket knife and two mushroom caps cut in half.

“The future is fungi”: The power of citizen science to advance fungal conservation

Bordering the forest that surrounds Robert Courteau’s cottage an hour outside of Ottawa is a patch of golden yellow chanterelles. During the summer, he...
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