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Christian Molgat on the Ski-Vent-Clic trail near
Vankleek Hill, Ontario. Photo:
James Morgan
Feb 26, 2021 The normal winter behavior for most people has changed considerably during the past three months. As winter enters its final official days and the pandemic officially turns one year old, more people than usual have been cross-country skiing in the absence of the usual seasonal hockey and curling leagues.
Ski-Vent-Clic maintains 4.4 miles/17 kilometers of cross-country ski trails that form a circuit with various loops around the town of Vankleek Hill in the eastern part of the United Counties of Prescott and Russell. Volunteers maintain all the trails, which are almost entirely on private land that property owners have given permission to the club to use.
Credit: Dr. Nigel Raine/ University of Guelph
An insecticide used to control pest infestations on squash and pumpkins significantly hinders the reproduction of ground-nesting bees valuable pollinators for many food crops, a new University of Guelph study has revealed.
This first-ever study of pesticide impacts on a ground-nesting bee in a real-world context found female hoary squash bees exposed to imidacloprid dug 85 per cent fewer nests, collected less pollen from crop flowers and produced 89 per cent fewer offspring than unexposed bees. Because they re not making nests and not collecting pollen, they cannot raise offspring, said Dr. Susan Willis Chan, a post-doc in the School of Environmental Sciences (SES), who conducted the study with Dr. Nigel Raine, holder of the Rebanks Family Chair in Pollinator Conservation in SES. That means imidacloprid-exposed populations are going to decline.
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Environmentalists are urging Toronto to join 13 other Ontario city councils that want the province to stop using natural gas for electricity generation. There’s an old saying that in a democracy, the people deserve to get what they vote for good and hard. It’s tempting to ask Ontario’s electricity system operator to give these cities what they want by no longer supplying any power generated by natural gas plants. But I’m sure the power system staff are too kind-hearted to do that. Because it would create a lot of problems.
For example, anyone with surgery scheduled on a hot summer day would face the risk of “brownouts” during the procedure. City residents would lose their air conditioning and space heating just when they needed them most. And, without gas as a backup supply stabilizer, all those wind turbines that have sprung up over the past decade would need to be dismantled (though that might be considered a plus by most locals).