Ole Hendrickson

Ole Hendrickson is a forest ecologist and current president of the Ottawa River Institute, a non-profit charitable organization based in the Ottawa Valley.

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Is climate change as bad as we thought? It's worse.

Dianne Saxe, the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario (ECO), has just released her 2016 climate report. Chapter 1 is a brilliant summary of the science behind climate change, with a focus on how it will impact Ontario. Saxe pulls no punches. Her report contains a graphic asking, "Is it as bad as we thought?" The answer: "It's worse."

For some time, there have been rumblings in the scientific community that politicians, the media and reports issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are understating the degree to which the Earth is in trouble from climate change.

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Science bears out Muskrat Falls protesters' demands. Governments should listen.

Protesters, led by representatives of Indigenous groups, have seized control of the site of the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project in Labrador. They have also come to Ottawa. On Sunday, Inuk artist Billy Gauthier, who was on the 10th day of a hunger strike, joined other hunger strikers, Inuit elders and supporters at a demonstration at the Human Rights Monument.

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Why is Canada opposing global efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons?

Activists at last month's World Social Forum (WSF) in Montreal gathered to assess progress in ridding the world of nuclear weapons.

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Active transportation is a big part of the climate change solution

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Fort McMurray fire brings climate refugees to Canada

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Protecting Eastern hemlock, our next endangered tree species

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In spring and summer 2002, entomologists first collected a small, bright green beetle from ash trees in the Windsor-Detroit area. None had ever seen this insect before. Two months passed before a taxonomist in Slovakia identified it as Agrilus planipennis, an Asian member of the family Buprestidae. This family has about 15,000 species, with brightly coloured adults ("jewel beetles") and larvae that bore through stems, leaves, roots and logs.

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To 'Leap' or to sleep? That is the question.

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Monarch butterflies face substantial risk of extinction

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Canadian NHL teams reach new heights of improbability

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Given hockey's quasi-official status as Canada's national sport, the poor performance of Canada's NHL teams is generating a lot of discussion. U.S. President Obama kidded Prime Minister Trudeau about this during the latter's recent visit to Washington.

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How a deferred decision on waste disposal could affect the future of nuclear power in Ontario

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