Bred in 1916 by Isabella Preston, Canada’s first female horticulturist, the Creelman lily sits among other lost and found ...

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 western world’s growth imperative is the wrong playbook. In 1972, The Limits to Growth used early computer models to show if worldwide economic growth continued without regard for environmental ...

A century after the Group of Seven became famous for an idealized vision of Canadian nature, contemporary artists are incorporating environmental activism into work that highlights Canada’s ...

When Duncan McCue first approached the Penelakut First Nation’s leadership about creating a podcast about the notorious Kuper Island Indian Residential School on Penelakut Island in B.C.’s Southern ...

When Amanda Savoie shows people photos and videos from her dives in the Arctic Ocean off Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, they are invariably astonished by what they’re seeing. “The water in Cambridge Bay is ...

As interest in Ontario’s mineral-rich Ring of Fire region grows, caribou face threats on multiple fronts. New research could help chart a path to their conservation. For caribou in the far north ...

Fast Facts Common name: Grizzly bear Scientific name: Ursus arctos horribilis Type: Mammal Diet: Omnivore Group name: Sleuth or sloth Average weight: 150 to 400 kilograms Average height: One metre at ...

Most international borders adhere to some sort of logic. They follow coastlines or rivers, watersheds or natural barriers. They make sense. Not so the 49th parallel. The border from the Lake of the ...

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 ...

The daughter of a hereditary Mohawk chief and an English immigrant, Johnson used her hard-won celebrity to challenge Indigenous stereotypes Pauline Johnson was Canada’s first performance artist. In ...

It’s a sultry June evening in La Malbaie, a quaint town on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec’s Charlevoix region. On Richelieu Street, I’m several stops into Overture des Terrasses, ...