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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…
New catch-and-release guidelines in BC will buoy up salmon survival
Sport fishers and scientists are launching a bid to improve salmon survival by changing recommended…