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Temperature anomaly in Europe, Jan 1. Much of the continent was 10°C or more (dark red and grey) above the long-term average. WX Charts, CC BY-NCAn extreme winter heatwave meant countries across Europe experienced a record-breaking New Year’s Day. New daily temperature records for the month of January were set in at least eight countries: Belarus, Czechia, Denmark, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Netherlands and Poland. In many cases the temperatures were not just breaking the old highs, but smashing them by massive margins. On a typical January day in Warsaw, Poland, temperatures would barely go above freezing, yet the city recently...

Thirty minutes a day. The standard — and well-evidenced — recommendation for how much exercise we should all get is, for most parents, a joke. Seven workouts a week is next to impossible when you’re raising another human; five would be a serious luxury; three or four is more do-able but still, things get in the way. How about two? Most busy parents can probably get two in.The question, then: How do you make that enough? And what should you do differently when the number of sessions goes up? “That’s going to vary a lot person to person, depending on...

If there’s something we've learned from the hilariously entertaining Crap Wildlife Photography Facebook group that became a real hit online (check it out in our previous features here, here, and here!) it's that animals are unpredictable. But so is the weather forecast, camera battery, particular location, you name it. There’s also always a chance to get photobombed.This Facebook group which follows in the same footsteps of photographic hilarity titled “Crap Bird Photography” offers the same amusement, except it features feathered friends only.“You know the story: there's always something in the way, they just won't pose right; the camera does something...

What started out as a project to track his exercise for health reasons, is now an annual audit for environmental reasons for a 75-year-old Cariboo man. Stuart Westie, a retired teacher who lives in Williams Lake, has been producing an annual report for 12 years now, summarizing at the beginning of each new year, his previous year’s cycling, walking, and other fitness activities as well as the amount of garbage he produces and his vehicle use. He would send the “audits” out to people he knew who might be interested via email to share with them his successes and to...

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