After more than a million years on Earth, the caribou is under threat of global extinction. The precipitous decline of the once mighty herds is a tragedy that is hard to watch — and even harder to reverse.

From enduring extreme isolation and psychological strain to operating high-tech robotics and undergoing an intense physical fitness regimen, here’s a glimpse at what it takes to head to space

The Royal Alberta Museum has officially opened its downtown Edmonton building, capping a complex multi-year move that’s captured in this behind-the-scenes photo essay

First-ever "Operation Pumpkin Drop" held in Saskatoon was a messy success 

How one grassroots organization in Toronto makes our glass landscapes less deadly for birds.

Multilingualism is at the heart of Canada‘s identity. It’s also a matter of decency and human rights. 

Wildlife names that could use a rebrand

The video is the latest in a campaign by the African Wildlife Foundation to raise awareness of the illegal wildlife trade

The little-known story of the 1918 Spanish Flu and how we're preparing for the next great pandemic

Canada leads the developed world in per capita production of garbage. What’s behind our nation’s wasteful ways? 

These seven teeny creatures have big personalities

After a series of mass deaths in recent years, what can we do?

This video of a Pacific banana slug dispatching a dandelion is the surprise "cute" viral nature video of the week 

High winds that have hampered underwater work forecast to lighten

Growing up black in Nova Scotia, the intense beauty of Three Mile Plains and the Annapolis Valley was, for me, a fount of emotional history 

A YouTube livestream broadcasts the antics of the birds to an adoring global audience

Footage of Newfoundland urban wildlife encounter 'amooses' Canadians

Thousands gather to help Thompson break the Guinness World Record for greatest number of people howling like wolves in unison

With 200 hidden treasure boxes to find across Canada, what will you discover this summer? 

The young swimmer has inspired legions of fans with her performance in Rio

Depending on whom you ask, the North’s sentinel species is either on the edge of extinction or an environmental success story. An in-depth look at the complicated, contradictory and controversial science behind the sound bites

Environmental activist and chief water commissioner for the Anishinabek Nation on the importance of protecting fresh water

Highlights and headlines from the world of wildlife this week

“We just knew no fish would get by. Not without our help.” Behind the scenes of the epic campaign to save a Fraser River salmon run.

Family canoeing from Edmonton to Montreal to inspire youth to get outdoors

Nine ways to get the most out of stargazing in the 11,000 square kilometer dark sky preserve

Buttes are common across western Canada and the United States.

How do owls fly so silently?

Could this video be more Canadian?

Try this at your next dinner party

Who doesn't love a little moose-ical interlude?

A Vancouver man will have a whale of a tale to tell his friends in years to come

Re-enactments set storytelling and historical accuracy to a backdrop of pyrotechnics

Fun winter events

Learn the meaning of pahoehoe

Have you ever seen one of these large sculptured 'land pictures'?

Also know as frost shattering, frost wedging or congelifraction, gelifraction is the mechanical fracturing of rock caused by repeated freezing and thawing cycles.

Unconformity: An interruption between layers of rock, in which the upper layer is much younger (even by more than a billion years) than the lower layer.

Niphablepsia is caused when the sun’s UV rays reflecting off snow burn the cornea.

Watch a tornado touch down

Thawing permafrost is making the ground bouncy… and very dangerous

International grassroots organizations unite over turtle conservation