We don’t normally think of eating or wearing water. But that’s exactly what we’re doing when we bite into an apple (which uses 125 litres of water) or put on our favourite pair of jeans (which uses more than 7,600 litres of water to make a single pair). When we think of the water footprint […]
. After my fence post lichen study, I felt compelled to look for lichen everywhere else in my neighbourhood. The most prevalent surfaces I encountered during my walks were trees that lined my residential street, and most were sugar and red maple trees. The gnarly trunk of one particular red maple seemed to light up […]
In a time when North American scientists and politicians are still debating the pros and cons of a carbon tax—when the current US President, within hours of his inauguration, orders the withdrawal of the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accords, revokes several executive orders to aid against climate change, and promotes fossil fuels and mineral […]