An Albertan with deep roots in the Prairies donated 507 hectares of native prairie grassland along the Oldman River to be ...

Find settles long-running debate over the identity of one of the lost explorers, a petty officer thought to have been demoted ...

It is surprisingly difficult to see a Vancouver Island marmot in the wild. For nearly a decade, I’ve spent my summers hiking through the mountainous interior of Vancouver Island, a landscape of ...

Hugo Vasconcellos, my guide with Adventureland Madeira, throws his Land Rover into second gear and lets out a whoop of joy as we begin to cruise down a steeply pitched road hugging the edge of a ...

Canada jays, of the Pacific type, are found in subalpine forests along the Coast Mountains and the Cascade Range from Northern California to British Columbia. They are a gregarious species, easily ...

Former Supreme Court justice and war crimes prosecutor Louise Arbour was named Canada's next governor general on May 5. (Photo: MS Anne-Marie Brisson, Rideau Hall ...

Milder winters and warming ocean waters are bringing changes to the wild shores of Sable Island. (Photo: Lynn Fergusson) AS THE SMALL PLANE’S fixed wheels descend the last few metres to the sands of ...

Called Canada’s Rachel Carson and Canada’s Thoreau, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence spent 50 years studying birds in a remote forest on the Mattawa River. An endlessly curious self-trained amateur, she ...

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 ...

A fog bank moves in over the Milne ice shelf. On a late July morning in 2020, as the world cycled through a revolving state of lockdowns and pandemic waves , Adrienne White, an ice analyst at the ...

At exactly 6 a.m., the sky above the Caribbean Sea shifts from violet to pale blue, almost as if someone has flipped a switch above the terrace of my hotel room on the island of Basse-Terre. Mourning ...

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 ...