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Coastal geographer Camilo Botero measures erosion levels with a device made from four dollar-store curtain rods in Black Duck Cove Provincial Park in Little Dover, N.S., on June 14, 2026.

Inside Nova Scotia’s grassroots movement to document rising seas and receding beaches

The $40 MacGyvered tool helping citizen scientists measure climate change

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How Saint John became Canada’s fastest-growing port

An ambitious expansion, shifting trade patterns and U.S. tariff policy have resurrected a shipping powerhouse

By Lisa HrablukPhotos By Michael Hawkins
A photo illustration of a cargo ship with the Hapag-LLoyd name on the site and a crane behind it with people walking in the foreground across the water at the Port of Saint John
Can 'sponge cities' fix flooding?

Can 'sponge cities' fix flooding?

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Tsimerman's earth-shattering research may soon make him the first Canadian to win the Fields Medal, often called the Nobel Prize of mathematics.
What I learned locked inside an escape room with a Fields Medal winner

Jacob Tsimerman was awarded a Fields Medal – the Nobel of math. He‘s also handy with the occasional dragon’s egg

By Luc Rinaldi