Brazil has created the South Atlantic’s largest marine protected area, spanning about one million hectares. Supported by Conservation International, the reserve—roughly the size of Jamaica—aims to safeguard biodiversity, fisheries, and critical ocean ecosystems.
Didn't used to be, they are here now because of that trade! We killed all ours.
In 1985 Michigan traded Ontario 150 turkeys for 59 moose. From 1985-1987 the bartered meese were then airlifted into the Upper Peninsula, in what as know as the Great Michigan Moose Lift
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After migrating north they gather all the way up to Point Pelee in Ontario Canada for the flight back to Mexico in the Fall
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It's finally time! Always my first bloom; Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) in the forest. I can breed them indoors, the minute I put them out unguarded....eaten. I shall continue to enjoy them in their natural environment until I figure out the secret plant keeping them safe in the wild.
The world just lived through the 11 hottest years on record — what now? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A very angry horseshoe crab stands on the beach with angry angry eyes and the words around him says they only want to tell you about my evolutionary history as they destroy Our evolutionary future
We’re at teen art club again 😎
Whooooaaaa
Black and white woodpecker with a red spot on head is holding on vertically while excavating a hole in a dead conifer. There are wood chips flying through the air as he releases them.
Mr. Hairy Woodpecker excavating this week in #PtReyes for #WoodpeckerWednesday. 💚
#Birds #NaturePhotos #iNat #NationalParks #Woodpeckers 📷
Photo of 4 Cladonia podetia that look sort of like golf tees. Each has a white stalk, covered to a large degree with green scales. The rim of the golf tee bowl is ringed with tiny brown blobs. The bowls, like the stalks, are largely covered in green scales.
Cladonia sp #lichen. Northwest Territories, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends
Photo of a snow covered landscape. Photo is taken from a high peak, looking down and in the distance. A narrow lake is in centre-right of the photo. High barren hills are behind the lake. Some scattered trees/groves are visible. The lake is frozen and snow covered. Far in the distance you can see a sliver of the North Atlantic Ocean.
Snowshoeing the central barrens of the Bay de Verde Peninsula, #Newfoundland, Canada. #hiking #snowshoeing #trail #backpacking
Ontario scraps Endangered Species protection and hands responsibility to the Federal Government environmentaldefence.ca/2026/04/01/o... #ONpoli
RIP💔
Bill Riley, first African Nova Scotian to play in NHL, remembered as inspiration #NovaScotia #Canada
Riley, who played for the Washington Capitals and Winnipeg Jets, died of cancer at age 75
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The fact that food banks even exist is proof that successive governments have failed in their duties. Food banks are a privately funded bandaid used to cover inadequate government programs.
That the bandaid itself is now failing means the government is failing Canadians more than ever before.
My bloodroot is blooming!!
Native Americans, including the Cherokee, Algonquin, and Ponca, used the orange-red sap of bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) primarily for dyes, body paint, and traditional medicine.
A vertical photo along Lake Superior's icy shores. In the foreground, ice covered rocks for a u-shaped channel, revealing small boulders surrounded by small red rocks. Ice covered rocks extend towards a small island. The island is completely covered in ice, with several spindly pine trees growing from the center. Near the center of the island, two root beer colored ice formations are formed by water seeping out of the island. Above the island, the sky is filled with gray clouds, showing slight signs of gold sunlight.
An incredibly tranquil morning in January on the North Shore of Lake Superior.
#sunrise #landscape #Minnesota #PhotographersUnited
Medium-sized woodpecker clinging to a tree. Its entire front is creamy white with round black spots and the back is brown with black bars. The red v on the back of its head is visible and a bit of a yellow tail feather is showing.
Fluffed out flicker clinging to a tree.
In a momentary break from al the Costa Rica pics it's #WoodpeckerWednesday with a Northern Flicker showing off ifs spots. 🪶
Map of the lower 48 U.S. showing the rankings for the observed total days of max temperatures >=80°F for January 1, 2026 to March 29, 2026. This includes 1328 weather stations.
Map of the lower 48 U.S. showing the rankings for the observed total days of max temperatures >=85°F for January 1, 2026 to March 29, 2026. This includes 1328 weather stations.
Many weather stations across the southern two thirds of the U.S. are already logging a record number of 80°F (and even 85°F+) days this year. This really highlights to me the extreme nature of the warmth in March, with many areas already seeing summer-like heat.
Graphic from: sercc.com
Photo of leafy shoots with serrate leaves and a cluster of tiny, white flowers. The peripheral flowers in the cluster are greatly enlarged, white, showy but sterile. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
Some species of Viburnum have, like Hydrangea, inflorescences of both small fertile and large sterile flowers. Inflorescences of Viburnum plicatum var. plicatum have peripheral flowers that attract pollinators to the tiny, fertile flowers. #Viburnaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Yellow violet with purple-brown nectar guides
Viola nuttallii, our Nuttall’s Violet, blooming now on the Mesa Trail #nativeplants 🌿
Several characters from Fraggle Rock gathered around a garden-like setting with soil, ferns, and red radish-like vegetables. In the foreground, three small Fraggles with bright hair and colorful clothing stand among the plants; one with orange hair holds a large red radish. Behind them are three large Gorg characters: a shaggy beige Gorg leaning forward on the left, a tall purple Gorg wearing a metal crown in the center, and another Gorg in layered clothing standing to the right. The scene is brightly lit with a rocky structure and vines in the background, creating a whimsical, fantasy environment.
On this day in 1987, Fraggle Rock aired its final episode after five seasons. Filmed in Toronto, using primarily Canadian puppeteers and cast, it remains a beloved show for many.
Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇
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The Boss is awake! Warm weather is just around the corner. He's estimated to be about 28 or 29 years old and has fathered half of all the grizzly cubs in Banff National Park.
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Line graph time series of cumulative glacier mass balance relative to 1970 for the period of 1950 to 2025. There is a long-term decreasing trend through the entire time series.
🚨 My graphic showing cumulative change in the mass of reference glaciers around the world has now been updated with 2025's data. We are rapidly losing ice.
Graphic available at: zacklabe.com/climate-chan.... More info: wgms.ch/global-glaci...
Have you seen this yet?
This is wrong.
Parliament is supposed to be a civic space — the one room in this country where every faith, and no faith, stands on equal ground.
A little red-backed vole peeks out from a snow cave under a wooden rail.
A red-backed vole emerges from beneath a grey box surrounded by snow.
An adorable red-backed vole stands on its hind legs an looks out from a snow cave.
A few more looks at my furry little friends. I have at least three red-backed voles who have made a home in the giant snowbank next to my back deck. They come out at dawn and dusk. Taken while sitting on the deck with my big lens balanced on my knee so I could manually focus. #mammals 🌿
An agreement between the Mi’kmaq and Parks Canada will allow both parties to govern almost all of Nova Scotia’s parks and historic lands together. Announced in December 2025, the Toqi’maliaptmu’k Arrangement comes after decades of relationship-building. thenarwhal.ca/mikmaq-parks...
Politicians are clambering to ship oil from Manitoba's Port of Churchill. But how feasible is it to build a new pipeline across warming permafrost? And how has it been done before? @jsrutgers.bsky.social dives in: thenarwhal.ca/pipeline-nor...
From June 2025:
Ford government used code words to make it 'unduly difficult' to search Greenbelt records: report
Political staff were using code words to thwart document requests, says IPC commissioner
Is there any accountability in Ontario?
RCMP where are you???
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Photo of a cream coloured, roundish lichen growing on rock. The edge of left side of the lichen is ringed with relatively large orange discs. The rest of the lichen is dotted with tiny orange discs. The rock is pink and white and dotted with small bits of yellow and grey lichen.
Orange Rock Posy Lichen. NWT, Canada. Lichen is about 1.5cm in diameter. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends
