It is surprisingly difficult to see a Vancouver Island marmot in the wild. For nearly a decade, I’ve spent my summers hiking through the mountainous interior of Vancouver Island, a landscape of ...

Find settles long-running debate over the identity of one of the lost explorers, a petty officer thought to have been demoted ...

Milder winters and warming ocean waters are bringing changes to the wild shores of Sable Island. (Photo: Lynn Fergusson) AS THE SMALL PLANE’S fixed wheels descend the last few metres to the sands of ...

Canada jays, of the Pacific type, are found in subalpine forests along the Coast Mountains and the Cascade Range from Northern California to British Columbia. They are a gregarious species, easily ...

Former Supreme Court justice and war crimes prosecutor Louise Arbour was named Canada's next governor general on May 5. (Photo: MS Anne-Marie Brisson, Rideau Hall ...

Called Canada’s Rachel Carson and Canada’s Thoreau, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence spent 50 years studying birds in a remote forest on the Mattawa River. An endlessly curious self-trained amateur, she ...

The song of a male red-winged blackbird takes on a visible form as it stakes out its territory on a cold spring morning. (Photo: Stanley Bysshe) Our planet has a soundtrack. There are the birds, of ...

The South Saskatchewan River is under unprecedented pressure. Now, a major irrigation project is set to expand. The South Saskatchewan River is beautiful. That’s the first thing you need to know about ...

Maps have long played a critical role in video games, whether as the main user interface, a reference guide, or both. As games become more sophisticated, so too does the cartography that underpins ...

Another reckoning is coming with climate change. How do we deal with our mental health — and ultimately find hope? I’m walking up a ridge of bedrock outside my house, talking to my brother 1,800 ...

At exactly 6 a.m., the sky above the Caribbean Sea shifts from violet to pale blue, almost as if someone has flipped a switch above the terrace of my hotel room on the island of Basse-Terre. Mourning ...

Struggle and success in Atlantic Canada, where aquaculturists strive to overcome climate change and contamination while chasing a sustainable carbon footprint In the days before Hurricane Fiona hit ...