I find it exhausting when we declare problems
unsolvable, as though dedicated dollars and engineering haven’t already granted
us the gifts of flight, cell phones and space travel.
By comparison, the things we have yet to...
I’ve worked several newsrooms in my time, always at
small rural papers and always as the only man on staff. As a consequence, I
became the de facto sports reporter, expected to assemble an entire section of
the paper with...
Let’s go back to 2013 when our provincial government,
in partnership with numerous stakeholders, created the Parks and Protected
Areas Plan. It was an inspired document, identifying huge tracts of land which
were ripe for formal protection either as wilderness...
Our appreciation for the natural world is limited by
our understanding thereof.
That’s been my mantra for the better part of a decade
now and research has since vindicated me, demonstrating that an individual’s
concern for local...
The sanctity of Nova Scotia’s protected areas has taken
a beating in recent years, especially those of the eastern shore, their
significance dragged through either corporate or political mud in order to
justify their dismantling, a sharp contrast to the...
Nature means many things to many people, some of us
drawn to the cascading rhythm of beaches or rocky shorelines, others to the
quiet dignity of ancient forests, others still to public gardens and the
ornateness of urban green space.
The harm we’ve done our atmosphere is one of the most
thoroughly studied phenomena in human history, the subject of international
scientific inquiry and consensus for decades now.
The same ironclad scientific methodology which allowed
us to...
Let’s go back to 2013 when our provincial government,
in partnership with numerous stakeholders, created the Parks and Protected
Areas Plan. It was an inspired document, identifying huge tracts of land which
were ripe for formal protection either as wilderness...
By Zack Metcalfe
It’s said that between the ages of 18-25 we lose our ability to hear the ultrasonic whine of the bat.
This depends, of course, on the person,...
About 370 million years ago, when Nova Scotia was in the act of
mountain building, our planet’s tumultuous crust permitted the escape of two
elements which, to this day, are found concentrated together in our province’s
bedrock.