Until recently, renowned Canadian bear expert Steve Herrero shared those doubts. But then he and colleague Thomas Smith, a wildlife scientist at Utah’s Brigham Young University, took a hard look at bear encounters in Alaska from 1985 to 2006 in which pepper spray was used.
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Plants in a farm filed in London, Ont., are getting an early taste of climate change in a unique experiment that promises to show how rising temperatures and pollution might affect temperate regions.
A farm family in Vegreville, Alta, is turning cow patties into power with new biogass facility – the only one in the world to run on solid organic waste.
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A group of Canadian scientists is trying to confirm a fishy story that it hopes will renew Lake Ontario’s long-lost Atlantic salmon.
Researchers at the University of Guelph and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) suspect that the Atlantic salmon in the Argentinian headwaters in the Andes are of Canadian descent. If they can link the two populations’ DNA, they plan to restock some of Lake Ontario’s tributaries.
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