La durabilité des écosystèmes

Learn about the plants and animals in Canada’s marine coastal habitats, and what you can do to protect them.

Insects and other animals that are pollinators of plants play an important role in ecosystems.

If I asked you to name a few things that all life on the planet couldn’t live without you could probably come up with some good answers, but I bet you’d never think to say dirt.

Mussels are a kind of invertebrate that filter food out of the water they live in. This makes them a great tool for monitoring environmental water quality and tracking bioaccumulation in aquatic food webs.

Explore how walking on soil changes how water soaks into the ground and why that matters to gardeners and farmers.

A study on bird feeders and beak sizes shows how an everyday human activity can affect the evolution of another species.

How do different populations adapt to their environment? Let’s explore this concept through guppy speciation.

Bees are important for agriculture. But bee populations face threats. This resource looks at Colony Collapse Disorder, herbicides & pesticides, and more.

Wind power is a growing source of electricity generation. But wind projects often affect local wildlife populations, and researchers are using environmental monitoring techniques to alleviate some of these impacts.

Heavy metal is a term for some toxic chemical elements. They can cause problems like bioaccumulation, but are useful in nuclear medicine and medical imaging.