Sharon Oosthoek
Globe and Mail
How golf courses are getting greener
The Globe and Mail April 26, 2011
The Sound and the fury: Why mapping the seabed of Lancaster Sound has the Arctic in an uproar
The Globe and Mail August 6, 2010
Closing the phosphorus loop
The Globe and Mail, Saturday March 13, 2010 by Sharon Oosthoek Like a fickle god, phosphorus gives life and takes it away. If too much leaches into lakes and streams, algal blooms suck oxygen from the water and choke off life. But if too little exists, we are all in trouble: Phosphorus is a dwindling, [...]
CONSERVATION: Human intervention gone awry
The Globe and Mail, Saturday, August 22, 2009 Condemned to death: What happens when a rescue plan works too well By Sharon Oosthoek Thirty years ago, the cormorant was a poster bird for the campaign to clean up DDT, the pesticide killing creatures here and abroad. The Great Lakes, home to 900 nesting pairs in [...]
Animal boot camp
The Globe and Mail Saturday, July 4, 2009 by Sharon Oosthoek Twenty-eight years ago, a Wyoming rancher’s dog carried a strange-looking dead animal home to its master. The cream-coloured creature was about the size of a house cat, with a slim body and black feet, face and tail tip. Puzzled, the rancher took it to [...]
Nature: Breeding a fungus-free grove
The Globe and Mail Saturday, December 8, 2007 A ‘dating service’ for lonely elms by Sharon Oosthoek GUELPH, ONT. Come winter, tree huggers wax poetic about towering pines or stands of silvery birch. But Alan Watson is awed at the sight of a small patch of saplings. He hopes they will grow into an umbrella-shaped [...]
Nature: The rise of mixed species could save animals at risk, or destroy them.
The Globe and Mail Saturday, December 1, 2007 The trouble with hybrids. Because of environmental change, a growing number of endangered animals are mating with genetic cousins. Which leaves conservationists with a dilemma: Should they prevent wildlife from crossing the species divide – or protect offspring such as grizzlars and bob-o-lynx? Sharon Oosthoek reports On [...]
O Frankentree
The Globe and Mail Saturday, December 9, 2006 Genetically engineered spruce and poplars could save Canada’s forests from over-harvesting and vicious pests such as the pine beetle. So why aren’t environmentalists hugging these trees? by Sharon Oosthoek QUEBEC CITY — When Christmas snows thaw this spring, Armand Seguin will cut down a stand of about [...]
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