Artificial intelligence is rapidly accelerating scientific output, but risks narrowing inquiry, weakening judgement and undermining how scientists are trained.

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Protecting the blue planet

A bizarro rule formally justifies politicizing public services

Online training in the application of stable isotopes to ecological and environmental research

A revised and improved version of my wildly successful stable isotope data analysis course is now available through Atomic Ecology. In this course I teach you how…

New Brunswick's ombud says Restigouche Hospital Centre staff have been restraining and secluding psychiatric patients improperly.

The global music star, whose home town of New Orleans was devastated by the hurricane in 2005, says ‘people power’ can change the world

The Space-based Detection System (SBDS) developed under the smartWhales Initiative with financial support from the Canadian Space Agency.

Space-based detection of whales is proliferating because it shows promise as a monitoring tool, yet tests of its application across taxa and environments are rare. The objective of this study was to ....

The Space-based Detection System (SBDS) developed under the smartWhales Initiative with financial support from the Canadian Space Agency.

Beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) of the Eastern Beaufort Sea (EBS) population represent the second largest beluga population in Canada. The last abundance assessment for this population was con...

Fisheries and Oceans Canada says an entangled North Atlantic right whale has been spotted on the north shore of the St. Lawrence estuary.

An aerial survey team spotted North Atlantic Right Whale #5132 entangled in fishing gear 110 km off the coast of North Carolina on December 16, 2024.

The P.E.I. Fishermen's Association says the latest detection of a North Atlantic right whale in the Gulf of St. Lawrence region will mean some lobster fishing crews on the North Shore will have to rem...

The recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals but no clear pathway for how zero loss of important biodiversity areas and halting human-induced extinction of thre...