An exclusive excerpt from botanist Diana Beresford-Kroeger’s new book about how forests can not only heal us but save the planet

Physical distancing requirements to slow the spread of COVID-19 will make it difficult for researchers to visit suspected tornado sites this year, so the team behind the Northern Tornadoes Project is calling on the public to help 

How so-called rare earth elements are powering our modern tech — and where to find them

Experts say global reforestation is one of our best defences against climate change, so a Toronto-based company is developing drones that can get the job done quickly

Researchers at the University of British Columbia have found evidence that bowhead whales exfoliate their skin by rubbing against large rocks

“In these dark, ancient forests, lives a creature of legend.” Thus begins a new wildlife documentary about the elusive Kermode bear.

Give these species another few decades and they could be comeback stories. That’s not to say they won’t quickly go the other way if human vigilance and crucial research lapses or natural events interfere.

The wild turkey, once extirpated from Ontario, now faces two hunting seasons

The federal government has committed $1.26 million over five years for First Nations-led projects to preserve the endangered herd 

Does a bird need to be famous to hold the title of Canada’s National Bird? Jody Allair thinks not.

After two years, nearly 50,000 votes and thousands of public and expert comments, the Canadian Geographic National Bird Project concludes. Meet our newest national emblem.

An estimated annual $175-billion business, the illegal trade in wildlife is the world’s fourth-largest criminal enterprise. It stands to radically alter the animal kingdom.

Conserving at-risk species is difficult when they’re constantly crossing international borders, but digital tools are making it easier than ever to track feathered globetrotters

Plus: Marathon hare migrations, increasingly efficient wolves, wandering basking sharks and homemaking bees

Once a traditional way of life across Canada, trapping survives and even thrives in communities throughout the North, including Colville Lake, N.W.T.

World-renowned tree expert and author Diana Beresford-Kroeger's film crosses continents and disciplines to show how trees sustain all life on Earth

Ten years after the release of her seminal book Sea Sick, Alanna Mitchell again plumbs the depths of the latest research on the health of the world’s oceans — and comes up gasping

Fire activity in the Brazilian Amazon surged this week; here are some key things to know about the situation

In The Haida Gwaii Lesson: A Strategic Playbook for Indigenous Sovereignty, award-winning journalist Mark Dowie explores Haida Gwaii and the people who call it home. Below is an excerpt from the book. 

As the impacts of global warming become increasingly evident, the connections to biodiversity loss are hard to ignore. Can this fall’s two key international climate conferences point us to a nature-positive future?

In 2005, a federal government program aimed to convert underused farmland into forests to capture carbon dioxide. How have these ‘Forest 2020’ projects fared? 

Revisiting a groundbreaking discovery on Canada's northernmost island

It’s saplings vs. climate change, ‘Survivor’ style

Hundreds of Canada’s species at risk are plants, and most of them live where we do

Streams surrounded by intact forest are better at providing clean water, carbon storage and wildlife habitat

The Alpine Club of Canada covers everything from wildfires to watermelon snow in its recently published annual report on Canada's alpine environments

Experts tackle our difficult relationship with nature in panel discussions hosted by Nature Conservancy of Canada 

The plastic problem on Haida Gwaii felt like witnessing a second wave of colonization

The vast majority of B.C.’s Great Bear Rainforest is now permanently off-limits to industrial logging, thanks to a landmark agreement that effectively ends decades of fighting

In highly populated areas where wildlife habitat is fragmented, citizens can play an important role in protecting species

The behavior of birds before and after the blaze that devastated Alberta’s Fort McMurray area in 2016 is leading to interesting insights into the rebound of boreal habitat

The drying of peatlands in Canada heightens the risk of wildfires and can turn into a carbon source instead of a carbon sink

The planet is in the midst of drastic biodiversity loss that some experts think may be the next great species die-off. How did we get here and what can be done about it?

Two marine biologists offer a glimpse of life at the bottom of the ocean during 2018, 2019 and 2020 seamount expeditions 

Now there's a way to visualize exactly what a record warm year globally meant in your city

It’s an ambitious plan: take the traditional Parks Canada wilderness concept and plunk it in the country’s largest city. But can Toronto’s Rouge National Urban Park help balance city life with wildlife?

This online map platform displays hundreds of stories on ecological farming issues from around the world

How to make the country's quintessential dishes

Canada has just as much geographic diversity as a galaxy far, far away.

#MuseumSelfie trended on Twitter January 20th as people the world over shared their snaps.

An insider’s account of the modern-day gold rush

Bring it … and leave it all on the mountain