A cave-diving photographer on ’swimming though the veins of the Earth’
Underwater cave photographer Jill Heinerth boldly swims where no one has swum before
environment
An abandoned U.S. dam is blocking fish from B.C.’s Similkameen River—and key spawning ground
An abandoned dam in Washington state may be the only thing barring chinook and steelhead trout from the upper reaches of B.C.’s Similkameen River. If you tear it down, will they come?
Gordon Stenhouse, Grizzly whisperer, on humans sharing the world with bears
Biologist Gordon Stenhouse has observed grizzlies’ respect for humans. He wishes we’d return the favour.
The sound of too much noise
The Arctic narwhal is being threatened by a new enemy: the clamour of passing ships
How humans and squirrels team up to collect tree seeds—and save the planet
Human gatherers of tree seeds are letting beady-eyed, bushy-tailed subcontractors take the lead
Have Guelph’s delightful ‘fairy doors’ become a forest plague?
While many love the miniature doors affixed to trees, the city was receiving an increase in complaints about how the doors are ruining the landscape in parks and natural areas
If you thought the cutting of B.C.’s ancient forests was winding down, you’d be wrong
Our editorial: Over the decade ending in 2018, an average of 15,200 hectares of old growth hit the ground annually in coastal forests alone. That’s an area per year the size of Vancouver.
How Canada became an environmental outlier
Tom Mulcair: Justin Trudeau and Peter MacKay, Trudeau’s likely Conservative opponent in the next federal election, represent the same generation—one that has failed on the environment
Jonathan Wilkinson and a stick of dynamite
Shannon Proudfoot: The new minister of environment and climate change has a very hard job—and an intriguing background well suited to it
The urgent fight to save Toronto’s ravines from invasive species
The city’s peerless ravine system, worth billions according to estimates, stirs a deep psychological and emotional connection among locals. Invasive species now pose an existential threat.