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Serge Schmemann: Where have all the cèpes gone?
I have not yet found studies on the impact of climate change on mushrooms in the Laurentians. But mushroom-picking sites, like Mushroom-Collecting.com, have noted the growing scarcity of cèpes.
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What’s Ontario's heating future? Look to Enbridge Gas
Doug Ford’s government has invested big in the non-renewable energy source. But even as the province builds fossil fuel infrastructure, the Progressive Conservatives are shelling out for lower-emissions heating programs.
Using science and Celtic wisdom to save trees (and souls)
Diana Beresford-Kroeger, a botanist and author, has created a forest with tree species handpicked for their ability to withstand a warming planet.
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How many plants have we wiped out? Here are 5 extinction stories
Botanists have laid out evidence that dozens of North American trees, herbs, plants and shrubs have gone extinct since European settlers arrived.
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An Indigenous Canadian journalist was covering a protest. Then he got arrested
He is one of four reporters arrested while covering Indigenous affairs in a country that has been trying to make amends for its colonial past.
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A Mohawk protest camp sends ripples across Canada
A small protest in Ontario supports an Indigenous effort to block a pipeline thousands of miles away. It’s also created large-scale disruption in Canada.
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McDonald’s to test plant-based burgers in Canada
The chain’s new “P.L.T.” sandwich — plant, lettuce and tomato — will be sold at 28 restaurants.
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