Most people’s idea of a great summer vacation doesn’t include being holed up in an abandoned research station in Nunavut while analyzing — and being analyzed by — half a…

A live donkey is better than a dead lion,” Ernest Shackleton, the renowned British explorer, once said. He was referring to his 1907 to 1909 Nimrod expedition, and…

If trees could speak, what would they say? Diana Beresford-Kroeger, an ecologist, botanist, author and Fellow of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society, says there is a…

In the wee hours of a late-fall morning 30 years ago, Karsten Heuer and his father were hiking through a dark, wet campground, tackle boxes in hand, heading for their favourite…