The Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park is an expansive nature reserve on southern Baffin Island near Iqaluit, the capital city of Nunavut. It features the Sylvia Grinnell River which cuts through the landscape and flows out into Frobisher Bay, providing a stark contrast to the endless tundra that expands as far as the eye can see. …
It was March 2020. The flu-like illness we had all heard about on the radio was globally abound and had finally arrived on our doorstep. It was a plague that cancelled all plans and ran everyone into lockdown wherever it spread. As plans ground to a halt, feelings of uncertainty seeped into the cracks of …
Hundreds of elephants dead in Botswana…the culprit? Cyanobacteria [1]. These elephants aren’t the first account of a mass murder at the hands of these toxin-producing bacteria. In 1979, 148 people became very sick on Australia’s Palm Island from unknowingly drinking toxin-contaminated waters [2, 3], and in 1996, 76 people died in Brazil from exposure to …
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Think about how much time you spend indoors… In general, people spend over 70% of their time inside (Health Canada, 1989). With all that time spent inside, think about all the dust you’re inevitably breathing in…It’s a lot! Dust is something we can’t evade when indoors. Unfortunately, it’s a repository for contaminants, mainly semi-volatile organic …