Dale Gross wanted to stop little birds from falling into hollow fence posts and dying.

The LINK Online with Carmel Kilkenny, Lynn Desjardins and Terry Haig.

Environmentalist Dale Marshall says methane must remain trapped in the Arctic or it will accelerate climate change.

“Even when it’s likely that we won’t have a record low, the sea ice is not showing any kind of recovery. It’s still in a continued decline over the long term,” said Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “It’s just not going to be as extreme as other years because the weather conditions in the Arctic were not as extreme as in other years.”

Dr. Doug Manuel

James Elder, of UNICEF talks about securing the release of 1,775 child soldiers last year, and the growing recruitment of them in the ongoing violence of South Sudan this year.

Author Jules Boykoff says scandal at these and previous Olympic Games prove the need for independent watchdogs.

"We found that, when compared to patients from other populations, Chinese and South Asian patients were on average much sicker by the time they got to hospital," says Dr. Maria Chiu, principal investigator and scientist at ICES.

Coach Chris Moulton discusses track events at the Rio Olympics.

Virginia Ludy, the GM of the CNE, talks about the past and the present of the place once known as the "showcase for the nation".