SUZUKI – Bicycling never gets old
TWO HUNDRED years ago this month, an environmental and fuel crisis inspired one of our greatest inventions — a device so simple, efficient and useful that it’s turning [Continue]
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SUZUKI – Donald Trump is a pariah in the face of climate-change crisis
IN WITHDRAWING from the Paris Agreement, U.S. President Donald Trump demonstrated monumental ignorance about climate change and the agreement itself. As Vox energy and [Continue]
SUZUKI – Protecting oceans is paying off, with some species rebounding
DO YOU REMEMBER Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak? It turns out wizards aren’t the only ones who can vanish from sight with a special coat. Marine researchers have [Continue]
SUZUKI – World Environment Day reminds us to reconnect with nature
THE NOTION that we must conquer or dominate nature has governed human behaviour for a relatively short period of our 150,000-year history on this 4.5-billion-year-old planet. [Continue]
SUZUKI – Oil and plastic are choking the planet
PEOPLE WHO deny that humans are wreaking havoc on the planet’s life-support systems astound me. When confronted with the obvious damage we’re doing to the biosphere — [Continue]
SUZUKI – Long work hours don’t work for people or the planet
IN 1926, U.S. automaker Henry Ford reduced his employees’ work week from six eight-hour days to five, with no pay cuts. It’s something workers and labour unions had been [Continue]
SUZUKI – Research sheds light on dark corner of B.C.’s oil and gas industry
WE’VE LONG KNOWN extracting oil and gas comes with negative consequences, and rapid expansion of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, increases the problems and adds new [Continue]
SUZUKI – The grisly truth about British Columbia’s grizzly trophy hunt
GRIZZLY BEARS venturing from dens in search of food this spring will face landscapes dominated by mines, roads, pipelines, clearcuts and ever-expanding towns and [Continue]
SUZUKI – March for science, march for Earth Day, march for humanity
SCIENCE ISN’T everything. But it is crucial to governing, decision-making, protecting human health and the environment and resolving questions and challenges around our [Continue]
SUZUKI – Citizen science and genetic testing yield positive results
SINCE I STARTED working as a geneticist in the early 1960s, the field has changed considerably. James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins won the 1962 Nobel Prize in [Continue]
SUZUKI – Marine protected areas are one piece of a complex puzzle
THE FEDERAL government recently created two marine protected areas in the Pacific region and has committed to increase ocean protection from one per cent to 10 by 2020. But [Continue]
SUZUKI – Welcome to the 21st century: Brighter times or a new Dark Age?
IF YOU OWN a smartphone, you have more computing power at your fingertips than NASA scientists had when they put people on the moon in 1969! And it’s in a small device, [Continue]
SUZUKI – Facts and evidence matter in confronting climate crisis
WE RECENTLY HIGHLIGHTED the faulty logic of a pseudoscientific argument against addressing climate change: the proposition that because CO2 is necessary for plants, [Continue]
SUZUKI – Intact Peel River wilderness is a hedge against our ignorance
IN 2011, I travelled with my family down Yukon’s Hart River. It’s one of seven pure rivers in the Peel River watershed, a 68,000-square-kilometre wilderness that’s been [Continue]
