Last Sunday our temperature cracked 0oC for the first time in ages. On Tuesday the snow was melting rapidly and the temperature was a balmy 6oC. Yesterday I was out for a walk and came upon a gaggle of about… Read More »Reflecting on the Extent of Human Impacts on this Planet, and on the Need to Act on Climate
Recent articles in the technical journals and in the media convince me we should be getting a lot more concerned about the state of the ocean than we are. Sure there has been progress. IPCC devotes whole chapters to discussion… Read More »The ocean – large, complex, not well understood, and changing rapidly: a big problem as we seek to understand global environmental change.
Building local understanding One of the wonders of this part of Ontario is the Muskoka Watershed Council – a unique made-in-Muskoka solution to the need for effective environmental management in a region strongly dependent on its natural environment for its… Read More »Loss of Biodiversity – a bigger problem than most of us realize?