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This UBCO researcher is trying to make your home more efficient
Natural gas may be the cleanest home heating fuel on the market but it’s still…
Princeton facility gets green light to grow magic mushrooms
Health Canada has approved a magic mushroom facility in the Similkameen. Optimi Health Corp currently…
Future of rare cold-water coral garden on B.C. coast still in question
The fate of a rare and splendid coral garden in a remote B.C. inlet is…
New land conservancy will help save a B.C. island’s precious ‘popcorn bowl’
A new conservancy on Saturna Island boosts the protection of B.C.’s rarest ecosystem, which shelters…
Tide-powered clean energy could help West Coast communities in B.C. ditch diesel
A new tidal energy pilot project to reduce dependence on diesel in B.C.’s remote coastal…
B.C. scientists eavesdropping on fish to fathom their underwater secrets
New technology is allowing researchers to covertly monitor, record and identify the sounds fish make…
What was B.C.’s Coast Salish woolly dog, and can we bring it back?
If you had been wandering the Coast Salish territories of British Columbia some 4,000 years…
‘Birders, not blockaders’ ask B.C. to protect old-growth to save marbled murrelets
Birders and biologists are banding together to urge the B.C. government to protect ancient forests…
HOLY MOLA: Ocean sunfish sighting off BC’s coast
Sunfish sightings continue to surface on the West Coast and — Holy Mola! — some…
Three health experts take a close look at BC’s COVID strategy
Earlier this year the COVID-19 pandemic was downgraded from an emergency to an endemic disease,…
Addiction psychiatrist says there’s ‘no sense of crisis’ in BC toxic drug crisis
Michael Krausz is a big name in addiction psychiatry. Before settling in Vancouver in 2007…
Most British Columbians are way overdue for their COVID boosters
Right now the National Advisory Committee on Immunization recommends people get an updated COVID vaccine…
Students are swapping test tubes for animal hides in West Kelowna
Mount Boucherie High School in West Kelowna has added a new and unusual science course…
BC updates its opioid use disorder treatment guidelines
Doctors in British Columbia have a new set of clinical guidelines for treating opioid use…
The unlikely love story of an endangered BC tree and the little bird who eats its seeds
When a little gray bird with black wings flies into a bushy tree on the…
Reducing the forever chemicals in the food we eat
British Columbia doesn’t currently test agricultural soils for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as…
Plastic fibres are a dangerous junk food for BC’s tiny ocean creatures
Microscopic creatures vastly important to marine life are gobbling up harmful plastic fibres, which pose…
Health Canada says expired COVID tests in BC are still good
COVID-19 rapid antigen tests that expired this spring can still be used to accurately detect…
This wildflower could fight antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis: UBC research
Researchers at the University of British Columbia are using a North American wildflower called bloodroot…
A tantalizing childhood cancer discovery in BC
BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute has found a way that kids’ immune systems might be…
iN PHOTOS: The BC lab keeping you safe from food poisoning
The petri dish shimmers with colour, flashing a rich, emerald-green iridescence under the fluorescent lights…
‘Unprepared and disoriented’: New findings on menopause impacts in BC
The first large Canadian study on menopause, which looked at a range of symptoms, what…
UN manifesto pitches preservation of critical microscopic creatures
Plankton, the key ingredient of the primordial ocean soup that allows all life to flourish,…
Canada’s concern about illegal shark finning by fishing fleets in the North Pacific surging
A cruel, wasteful and illegal practice called shark finning is occurring — over and over…