Recording the soundscapes of our ecosystems is a burgeoning field that allows researchers to better decode what the Earth is saying. But are we listening?

The history behind the Dundas name change and how Canadians are reckoning with place name changes across the country — from streets to provinces In some ways, there aren’t many streets like Toronto’s ...

Today, there are 826 whooping cranes in the wild. This is, in part, thanks to the Calgary Zoo, which has been instrumental in saving these birds from extinction, along with four other endangered ...

As foxes move from the forest to the city, they show more doglike traits and appear to be naturally self-domesticating in the U.K. — but the same isn’t happening here at home When Kevin Parsons moved ...

*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 ...

Has there ever been a national symbol more loathed or misunderstood? Has there ever been a more important time for the beaver to flourish?

Why the pesticide DDT was revered after the Second World War In 1945 after the Second World War, the pesticide commonly known as DDT — which stands for ...

Already gaining steam before the pandemic, interest in urban farming — and hunger for hyper-local food — has soared. A look at three Canadian takes on the urban farming phenomenon The early days of ...

I first encountered Hempton — and acoustic ecology — in his 2009 book One Square Inch of Silence. The book focuses on his campaign to have one square inch of rain forest in Olympic National Park, near ...

In his new book In Those Days: Shamans, Spirits, and Faith in the Inuit North, Kenn Harper shares tales of Inuit and Christian beliefs and how they came to coexist —and sometimes clash — in the 19th ...

How the legacy of these woolly giants persists in pop culture, storytelling, ecology and even the controversial idea of de-extinction ...

Approximate locations of forest garden study sitesSurrounding the sites of long-uninhabited villages, dotted along the winding salmon-spawning rivers and marine inlets of coastal B.C. and shrouded by ...