Nature
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Project looks to map saplings given to Alberta first-graders
For more than 60 years, the government of Alberta has distributed nearly 70,000 tree saplings to Grade 1 students during Alberta Forest Week. Now two local tree enthusiasts want your help to map those generations of lodgepole pine and white spruce.
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Cicadas: The loudest insects you've never seen
Cicadas help create the buzzing soundscape of the city on hot summer nights, but the insects themselves are a rare sight.
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Foraging for art offers escape from the ordinary
In the early hours of a Saturday morning, dozens of hand-crafted mushrooms cropped up around Edmonton. Cardboard polypores rooted in the brick face of an Irish pub. Stained-glass amanitas dripped off tree branches along walking trails. Knitted toadstools and psychedelic polymer caps lay in long grass, waiting for collectors – or curious passersby – to discover them.
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The (biodiversity) battle of Alberta begins June 9
The BiodiverCity Challenge, which pits citizen scientists from Alberta's urban centres against one another in a friendly competition to document species, is holding its annual "BioBlitz" in the metro Edmonton region from June 9 to 12.
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