Jim Handman.bsky.social
@sciencejim.bsky.social
Executive Director, Science Media Centre of Canada.
Former Exec Producer, CBC Quirks & Quarks, Ryerson University (now TMU) journalism instructor. Award-winning science journalist and SciComm trainer. http://sciencemediacentre.ca/
Former Exec Producer, CBC Quirks & Quarks, Ryerson University (now TMU) journalism instructor. Award-winning science journalist and SciComm trainer. http://sciencemediacentre.ca/
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How facial recognition for bears can help ecologists manage wildlife
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How facial recognition for bears can help ecologists manage wildlife
Recent advances in computer vision and other types of artificial intelligence offer an opportunity for facial recognition to apply to bears and other animals.
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January 12, 2026 at 2:21 PM
How facial recognition for bears can help ecologists manage wildlife
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The same firm ran a campaign to save CBC — and Canada Proud's push to defund it www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/08/i...
The same firm ran a campaign to save CBC — and Canada Proud's push to defund it
“It's like the Trump administration promoting Biden in an ad campaign,” said Ahmed Al-Rawi, Director of the Disinformation Project at Simon Fraser University. “This is unreal, like science fiction.”
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January 8, 2026 at 2:48 PM
The same firm ran a campaign to save CBC — and Canada Proud's push to defund it www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/08/i...
How are California’s birds faring amid ever more frequent wildfires? news.mongabay.com/2025/12/how-...
How are California's birds faring amid ever more frequent wildfires?
In the forests of the Sierra Nevada, the black-backed woodpecker is without parallel. The bird appears almost born of fire, thriving on the flames that flicker through California’s coniferous forests ...
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January 8, 2026 at 2:28 PM
How are California’s birds faring amid ever more frequent wildfires? news.mongabay.com/2025/12/how-...
Trump’s shutdown of climate research centre could push scientists to Canada www.cp24.com/news/world/2...
Trump’s shutdown of climate research centre could push scientists up north, experts say
Canadian climate experts say the dismantling of a major U.S. research centre could drive some of the world’s top climate scientists north of the border, reshaping where critical weather and climate re...
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December 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Trump’s shutdown of climate research centre could push scientists to Canada www.cp24.com/news/world/2...
Canada's 2030 climate target far out of reach, according to federal data www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Canada's 2030 climate target far out of reach, according to federal data | CBC News
Canada's legally binding climate target seems to be out of reach, according to new data released from Environment and Climate Change Canada.
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December 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Canada's 2030 climate target far out of reach, according to federal data www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
From record warming to rusting rivers, 2025 Arctic Report Card shows a region transforming faster than expected
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From record warming to rusting rivers, 2025 Arctic Report Card shows a region transforming faster than expected
The 20th anniversary of the annual report tracks how sea ice, snow cover and many other vital signs of the Arctic have changed, and the impact that’s having on people and wildlife.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
From record warming to rusting rivers, 2025 Arctic Report Card shows a region transforming faster than expected
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theconversation.com/from-record-...
Canada’s North is warming from the ground up, and our infrastructure isn’t ready
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Canada’s North is warming from the ground up, and our infrastructure isn’t ready
Permafrost supports homes and communities across Northern Canada. However, as the climate warms, melting permafrost poses significant challenges for infrastructure.
theconversation.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Canada’s North is warming from the ground up, and our infrastructure isn’t ready
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theconversation.com/canadas-nort...
Arctic Warming Is Turning Alaska’s Rivers Red With Toxic Runoff www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/c...
Arctic Warming Is Turning Alaska’s Rivers Red With Toxic Runoff
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December 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Arctic Warming Is Turning Alaska’s Rivers Red With Toxic Runoff www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/c...
Top Three Sierra Magazine Articles of 2025 www.sierraclub.org/sierra/top-t...
Top Three Sierra Magazine Articles of 2025
Top 3 Sierra magazine articles of 2025
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December 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Top Three Sierra Magazine Articles of 2025 www.sierraclub.org/sierra/top-t...
Orcas Find New Prey in the Arctic: An influx of these powerful, intelligent predators could mean trouble for other marine mammals www.sierraclub.org/sierra/orcas...
December 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Orcas Find New Prey in the Arctic: An influx of these powerful, intelligent predators could mean trouble for other marine mammals www.sierraclub.org/sierra/orcas...
From shrinking sea ice to wetter weather, the latest Arctic Report Card catalogues a year of rapid-fire climate change – and the world’s lagging efforts to slow it down. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/scien...
Record Arctic warmth meets retreating climate action, leaving the North exposed
From shrinking sea ice to wetter weather, the latest report card catalogues a year of rapid-fire change
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
From shrinking sea ice to wetter weather, the latest Arctic Report Card catalogues a year of rapid-fire climate change – and the world’s lagging efforts to slow it down. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/scien...
Puppies at work: Inside Canada’s avalanche rescue dog training program. From the excellent @saraheverts.bsky.social canadiangeographic.ca/articles/pup...
Puppies at work: Inside Canada’s avalanche rescue dog training program
At a remote mountain camp in B.C., Canada’s avalanche rescue dogs learn the skills and form the bonds that might mean the difference between life and death
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December 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Puppies at work: Inside Canada’s avalanche rescue dog training program. From the excellent @saraheverts.bsky.social canadiangeographic.ca/articles/pup...
Excellent piece by @jennthornhillverma.bsky.social on new study showing Dolphins and orcas can work in surprising harmony to hunt Chinook salmon.
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Teaming up on salmon hunts, orcas and dolphins in B.C. have developed a strategy that really clicks
A new study offers rare insights into how two species use each others’ sounds, size and speed to eat better together than they could alone
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Excellent piece by @jennthornhillverma.bsky.social on new study showing Dolphins and orcas can work in surprising harmony to hunt Chinook salmon.
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e93470d...
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John Noble Wilford, Times Reporter Who Covered the Moon Landing, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/s...
John Noble Wilford, Times Reporter Who Covered the Moon Landing, Dies at 92
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December 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
John Noble Wilford, Times Reporter Who Covered the Moon Landing, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/s...
Orcas and dolphins caught on video collaborating to hunt salmon www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Orcas and dolphins caught on video by researchers collaborating to forage, hunt salmon | CBC News
Researchers from Dalhousie University were trying to study how northern resident orcas find salmon to eat, but they ended up finding an unexpected symbiosis with another species — dolphins.
www.cbc.ca
December 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Orcas and dolphins caught on video collaborating to hunt salmon www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
New calf born to endangered southern resident orcas - BC News www.castanet.net/news/BC/5887...
New calf born to endangered southern resident orcas - BC News
Researchers are celebrating a new calf born to the critically endangered southern resident killer whale population.
www.castanet.net
December 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
New calf born to endangered southern resident orcas - BC News www.castanet.net/news/BC/5887...
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A rare bright spot for whales: Decades of conservation pay off for endangered population in Canada news.mongabay.com/2025/12/a-ra... 🧪🦑🌎
A rare bright spot for whales: Decades of conservation pay off for endangered population in Canada
Populations of northern bottlenose whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus), playful animals that resemble large dolphins, stretch across the Atlantic Ocean, with each group of whales living year-round in a…
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December 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
A rare bright spot for whales: Decades of conservation pay off for endangered population in Canada news.mongabay.com/2025/12/a-ra... 🧪🦑🌎
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Endangered whale's 3,000-mile journey from Ireland to Boston shocks scientists - CBS Boston 🧪🌎🦑
Endangered whale's 3,000-mile journey from Ireland to Boston shocks scientists
A North Atlantic right whale spotted off Ireland last year has made an "extraordinary" 3,000-mile journey to Boston, scientists say.
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December 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Endangered whale's 3,000-mile journey from Ireland to Boston shocks scientists - CBS Boston 🧪🌎🦑
Why was 'incredible' giant cedar cut down, despite B.C.'s big-tree protection law? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Why was 'incredible' giant cedar cut down, despite B.C.'s big-tree protection law? | CBC News
Conservationists are questioning why an old-growth yellow cedar tree with a diameter that should have ensured its protection and a buffer area around it under provincial law was logged.
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December 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Why was 'incredible' giant cedar cut down, despite B.C.'s big-tree protection law? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
2 top climate advisers quit saying Carney government is ignoring its experts www.cbc.ca/news/science...
2 top climate advisers quit saying Carney government is ignoring its experts | CBC News
Two members of the federal government’s Net-Zero Advisory Body have resigned, saying its work is being ignored by Ottawa as it moves away from previous climate commitments and toward new oil and gas p...
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December 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
2 top climate advisers quit saying Carney government is ignoring its experts www.cbc.ca/news/science...
Great piece about urban biodiversity, from my old friend @margaretmunro.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Vancouver must go wild – for the good of us all
The city needs to make a real effort to preserve its forest canopy
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Great piece about urban biodiversity, from my old friend @margaretmunro.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...