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AMI : artificial intelligence in an insect trap Maxim Larrivée, director of the Insectarium de Montréal, and myself, an entomological assistant at...Read more
How do we healthfully feed more and more humans without exhausting the Earth’s resources in a context of climate change? It was in response to this...Read more
Like a lot of people in Québec, towards the end of October I’m discouraged when I see the days get less bright, feel the cold rain that goes right...Read more
Biodiversity is in danger. We need to act right now. According to a 2019 report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity...Read more
The Southern Ocean surrounding the continent of Antarctica has been very stable and extremely cold for several million years. A unique highly...Read more
Jean-Philippe Vézina and Jardins Lakou, Dunham Eating healthfully without depleting the Earth’s resources: this is the great challenge facing...Read more
Jean-Philippe Vézina and Jardins Lakou, Dunham Eating healthfully without depleting the Earth’s resources: this is the great challenge facing...Read more
Contrary to what we may think, urban agriculture is neither a new concept nor a new trend. Take, for example, the Youth Gardens , those little...Read more
You may have noticed specimens of a very beautiful butterfly last summer. It’s one that’s hard to miss: the giant swallowtail is the largest...Read more
Researchers Maxim Larrivée and Alain Cuerrier describe their journeys north of the 55th parallel. Each of them is doing his research project up there...Read more