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“Days on the water have produced in me the intensifying feeling of somehow growing together with the river: not thinking with it, but being thought by it.” – Robert Macfarlane, Is a River Alive?
Transportation is one of the biggest contributors to household carbon emissions and can be a source of stress, disconnection, and pollution in our communities. The good news? When we rethink how we ...
A partnership between Miawpukek Horizon, Canadian Geographic, the Marine Institute at Memorial University of Newfoundland and ...
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 ...
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 ...
2022 is the International Year of Caves and Karst. Here’s why you should care about the hidden worlds beneath our feet.
*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 ...
The massive ichthyosaur fossil is now housed at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alta. (Photo courtesy Royal Tyrrell Museum) On a summer day in 1989, paleontologist Don Brinkman sat waiting for ...
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 ...
A century after the Group of Seven became famous for an idealized vision of Canadian nature, contemporary artists are incorporating environmental activism into work that highlights Canada’s ...
A key barren-ground caribou herd is adapting to changes in food availability caused by climate change, says new research from the University of Alberta It’s springtime in the north. Snow is melting, ...