Afaq Dhariwal

Less acid rain has actually posed problems for Maritime corn crops | CBC News
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Less acid rain has actually posed problems for Maritime corn crops | CBC News – Daily Frontline

Less sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere is believed to have had an impact on corn quality in the Maritimes. In 2018, Dan MacEachern, a research biologist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in P.E.I., began working with the Atlantic Grains Council to overcome issues the group was noticing with corn quality, in particular weight. Their five-year study ended…

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Humans and whales share common language traits, researchers find | CBC News
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Humans and whales share common language traits, researchers find | CBC News – Daily Frontline

There’s a reason “antidisestablishmentarianism” is more a piece of trivia than vital to the English language. Because a word that long is not what human language favours. According to experts, we tend toward efficiency and brevity — with statistical laws that persist across cultures. Perhaps now, even across species. Two new studies this week focused…

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UBC researchers say space junk has increasing potential to disrupt air travel | CBC News
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UBC researchers say space junk has increasing potential to disrupt air travel | CBC News – Daily Frontline

Large, uncontrolled space junk reentering Earth’s atmosphere has the increasing potential to disrupt air travel, if affected airspace is closed as a precaution, according to a new study by three University of British Columbia (UBC) researchers. The paper, Airspace closures due to reentering space objectswhich was published in Scientific Reports on Jan. 23, warns that “the space industry…

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Carbon dating puts Sask. Indigenous archeological site at almost 11,000 years old | CBC News
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Carbon dating puts Sask. Indigenous archeological site at almost 11,000 years old | CBC News – Daily Frontline

A piece of charcoal unearthed at a Saskatchewan archeological site and tested in a lab suggests the site is 11,000 years old and was likely used as a long-term settlement by Indigenous people. The site near Prince Albert, Sask., suggests Indigenous people lived in the region about 1,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to the Sturgeon Lake First Nation (SLFN)….

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