About "COVID-19"

A collection of our reporting on the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.

Avian cholera is a highly contagious disease that has produced rapid population loss in Northern common eiders. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Photo: Shutterstock
How Arctic sea ducks develop herd immunity from avian cholera
To wildlife disease ecologists, an ideal place to test ideas about herd immunity is Mitivik Island, Nunavut
An underground, dark, tunnel

Photo: Martin Brechtl/Unsplash

Photo: Martin Brechtl/Unsplash
Sewage surveillance: How scientists track and identify diseases like COVID-19 before they spread
Sewage testing can be used for early detection of disease

Half a million sharks could be killed to make the COVID-19 vaccine. (Photo: Albert Kok/Wikimedia Commons)

Photo: Albert Kok/Wikimedia Commons
COVID-19 vaccine might require compounds from shark liver
Squalene, a compound found in shark liver oil, is a common ingredient used in vaccines to boost the body’s immune response 

Hospital rooms built in shipping containers can be used to help address bed shortages and hospital waiting lists. (Photo: Fero International Inc.)

Photo: Fero International Inc.
Canadian company creates portable hospital rooms out of shipping containers
The portable hospital rooms made by Hamilton, Ont.-based company, Fero International, may aid in the frontline response to COVID-19

Researcher Paul Villeneuve has serious problems with some of the scientific studies published during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo: Virginia McDonald/Can Geo Photo Club)

Photo: Virginia McDonald
Researchers uncover flaws in studies linking COVID-19 mortality to air pollution
Two Canadian researchers studied the studies to see if the science was sound

When human activity came to a screeching halt this spring, noise attributed to human activity dropped more than 50 per cent. (Photo: William Self/Can Geo Photo Club)

Photo: William Self/Can Geo Photo Club
Seismic trackers record 50 per cent drop in noise during COVID-19
Scientists are calling it the 'anthropause'
Amazon Rainforest Fire

Forest fires continue to rage in the Amazonian rainforest. (Photo: iStock)

Amazon Rainforest Fire
Op-ed: The Amazon fires are back — and the consequences affect us all
Bioethicist and conservationist Kerry Bowman on the 2020 Amazonian forest fires — as bad, or worse than 2019's — and why Canadians should be very concerned

A grizzly bear in Bute Inlet, B.C. (Photo: Homalco Tours/Tyler Cave/Destination Campbell River)

Photo: Homalco Cultural Tours
‘Absolutely catastrophic:’ Hit hard by pandemic, ecotourism needs help
Remote locations and international clientele make the industry particularly vulnerable

One of the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in Farm greenhouses. (Photo: Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in Farm)

Photo: Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in
Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in protecting food security in Dawson City, Yukon
Local First Nation turned vacant land into an operational farm to provide for residents

Markus Pukonen is currently five years into circumnavigating the globe without using a motorized vehicle. COVID-19 forced him to stop in India. (Photo: Routes of Change)

Photo: Routes of Change
Slowing down the journey: Markus Pukonen on riding out a pandemic
No planes, trains or automobiles here — this adventurer is circling the globe under his own steam
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