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 ...

The South Saskatchewan River is under unprecedented pressure. Now, a major irrigation project is set to expand. The South Saskatchewan River is beautiful. That’s the first thing you need to know about ...

*It means “awake” in Beothuk, the language and people who once called present-day Newfoundland home for about 2,000 years. One young woman, believed to be the last living Beothuk, left a collection of ...

A spirit bear walks the intertidal zone of Princess Royal Island, occasionally stopping to flip rocks in search of food underneath. I was about five when I first first encountered ‘maas ol (white bear ...

Built by Swiss guides high on the Continental Divide, a storied refuge will be dismantled just months ahead of its 100th birthday, a casualty of our warming planet “The rains descended, and the floods ...

Indigenous archeologist Paulette Steeves shows us how an ancient world could have been more complex and more populated than we imagined Indigenous archeologist Paulette Steeves says that, based on her ...

Nickel Tailings #31 (detail) forms part of Edward Burtynsky’s Mines and Tailings, a series devoted to exploring the environmental aftermath of metal mining and ...

Caribou numbers in Canada are dropping drastically — and quickly — leaving the iconic land mammal on the brink of extinction For caribou, the numbers tell the tale. The famous George River herd of ...

Master carpenter Gordon Macdonald on restoring an iconic B.C. bridge, the value of heritage infrastructure, and why he's set his sights on the Antarctic The historic Kinsol Trestle in the Cowichan ...

The little-known story of the 1918 Spanish Flu and how we're preparing for the next great pandemic It started innocently enough, with sniffles and a cough. Then the fever pounced. Every muscle, every ...

Research and exploration of the icy Arctic waters is possible because of the existence of the Canadian High Arctic Research Station, which opened in Cambridge Bay in ...

Niigaan Sinclair, author and associate professor in the University of Manitoba's department of native studies, on why the gray jay is important to the Anishinaabe people. Gwiingwiishi has lived with ...