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  • How lottery-style bottle returns could transform recycling

    How lottery-style bottle returns could transform recycling

    When people were offered a 0.01% chance at winning $1,000 instead of 10 cents for returning their bottles, they recycled 47% more bottles. The cost was the same.

  • Fish buffered from recent marine heatwaves, showing there’s still time to act on climate change

    Fish buffered from recent marine heatwaves, showing there’s still time to act on climate change

    Fish were surprisingly resilient to marine heatwaves before 2019, highlighting the need to keep seas from warming further, according to new research

  • Salmon bones confirm sustainable chum fishery for 2,500 years under Tsleil-Waututh Nation

    Salmon bones confirm sustainable chum fishery for 2,500 years under Tsleil-Waututh Nation

    New research confirms that Tsleil-Waututh Nation has consistently and sustainably fished for chum salmon for 1,200 years longer than the archaeological record had previously demonstrated.

  • B.C. split on safety of self-driving cars – gradual introduction needed to build comfort among all road users

    B.C. split on safety of self-driving cars – gradual introduction needed to build comfort among all road users

    New UBC research suggests British Columbians are not quite ready to embrace self-driving cars wholeheartedly – and will need a period of gradual transition before adoption.

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