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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]