pollinators

The wild growth of long grasses in some parks across Vancouver isn’t by accident. Well, not entirely by accident. What started as a pandemic-era measure to protect staff has transformed park policy and expanded the parks’ ability to support wildlife along the way — and all it takes is leaving some areas alone. 

While scientists are quick to reassert the importance of planting wildflowers as a food source for pollinators, they do call for urban areas to be tested for contaminants and potentially cleaned beforehand.

Liam Sisson wants to teach you about bees. This 19-year-old University of British Columbia science student from Kelowna, B.C., spends his summers keeping bees and hosting guided beekeeping tours for visitors. 

Health Canada is investigating after Canada's National Observer revealed that government officials supported efforts by the pesticide industry to discredit a researcher's findings and overturn a proposed ban on a class of pesticides harmful to bees, the environment and human health.

The federal pesticide regulator collaborated with an agrochemical giant to undermine research by a prominent Canadian scientist to stave off an impending ban of a class of pesticides harmful to human brains and sperm and deadly to bees, insects and birds, Canada's National Observer has found.

The increasing intensity and frequency of extreme heat likely compounds stresses on the iconic butterfly, worrying biologists about how the struggling population will respond.

What happens when a rose doesn’t smell as sweet?

For scientists, monitoring the feisty, endangered burrowing bat from New Zealand includes moments of “actual madness.”

With more than 400 active wildfires still burning in B.C. and many residents yet to return to their homes, it's too early to know the fate of the province's honeybees.

Canadian beekeepers lost a record number of hives last year due to a fatal combination of unpredictable weather made worse by climate change, pests, pathogens and habitat loss.

More research is showing that moths are secret, critical pollinators, even of crops that feed humanity. Save the bees, but save the moths too.

Scientists are increasingly seeing evidence of “dark extinction” in museum and botanical garden collections.

The weed war, which puts more than $528 million in crop losses on the line each year in Canada alone, has for the past 50 years been fought with an arsenal of toxic herbicides that harm human health and contribute to the biodiversity and climate crises.

More than half of North America's bat species are likely to diminish significantly as climate change, disease and habitat loss take their toll, scientists warned Monday.

Wildflower meadows have been growing in popularity among gardeners, and for good reason. They’re low-maintenance and drought-tolerant, provide food for birds, wildlife, pollinators and other insects, and they’re pretty.