Michael Laxer16 hours ago3 min readCanada Reinvents the Xenophobic WheelBy Saurav Sarkar Bikram Singh is running out of time on his post-study work visa in Canada. Singh is one of about 70,000 migrants who...
Michael LaxerJun 186 min readFacing a Surge in Wildfires, the U.S. Government Turned to Native Wisdom and Advanced ArchaeologyCollaborative efforts between forest agencies and Indigenous communities are improving wildfire management by combining oral histories...
Michael LaxerFeb 178 min readWhy Ecosystems Need Healthy Populations of Apex Predators to Be RestoredWolves benefit the entire ecosystem they inhabit. So why hunt them? A pack of grey wolves after a successful hunt near La Ronge, just...
Michael LaxerFeb 124 min readSperm Whales Have Culture Too: Strong Evidence That Clans, Culture, and Dialects Are Not Unique to HumansMother sperm whale and her baby -- Gabriel Barathieu, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia...
Michael LaxerAug 30, 20236 min readWildfires Aren’t Just a Threat to People -- They’re Killing Off Earth’s BiodiversityCataclysmic wildfires have increased in intensity and frequency due to climate change. The New York skyline as a result of the Canadian...