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Muskrat Falls in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, the future site of the hydroelectric dam. The falls will be flooded in 2017. Photo by Amina Schartup.

New dams may expose Canadian seafood consumers to higher levels of neurotoxin

Emily Benson 23 Nov 2015

Cupid’s syringe: A love potion for troubled amphibians

Geoffrey Giller 15 Oct 2015

Animal action: new sensor tag tech could link animal behavior and conservation science

Caleb O'Brien 29 Sep 2015

River supplying Alberta oil sands operations with water at risk from drought

Mike Gaworecki 24 Sep 2015
Pittsfield State Forest in Massachusetts. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

How many trees are cut down every year?

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2015

Arctic countries prohibit commercial fishing in North Pole

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Aug 2015

Three dead in three weeks: a blow for endangered right whales

Rebecca Kessler 4 Aug 2015

With assault rifles and legal hijinks, Harper’s government takes on the Canadian environment

Peter Mellgard 27 Jul 2015

Militarization and murders stifle anti-mining movement in Guatemala

Sandra Cuffe 15 Jul 2015

U.S. to remove extinct cougar from Endangered Species Act

Jeremy Hance 30 Jun 2015

Saving the greater sage grouse, the most hotly-debated bird since the spotted owl (PHOTOS)

Sharon Guynup 9 Jun 2015

High pressure: is U.S. policy deterring illegal wood imports?

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 19 May 2015

Nickel Mine, Lead Bullets: Maya Q’eqchi’ seek justice in Guatemala and Canada

Sandra Cuffe 19 May 2015

Woman defeats mine, saves wilderness, wins $175,000

Morgan Erickson-Davis 20 Apr 2015

Russia and Canada lead the world in forest loss in 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Apr 2015

Scientists warn of global warming threat to temperate rainforests

Morgan Erickson-Davis 13 Mar 2015

Arctic upheaval: new book outlines challenges at the top of the world

Jeremy Hance 16 Feb 2015

Monarch butterfly population rises a little, but still perilously low

Jeremy Hance 28 Jan 2015

Two vanishing prairie butterflies added to the Endangered Species Act

Jeremy Hance 5 Jan 2015

Endangered environmentalists: investigating government crackdowns on green groups

Mongabay.org 19 Nov 2014

Dissolving pulp: a growing threat to global forests

Mike Gaworecki 30 Oct 2014

Fashion industry making progress in cutting deforestation from clothing

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Oct 2014

The only solution for polar bears: ‘stop the rise in CO2 and other greenhouse gases’

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 8 Oct 2014

Throng of 35,000 walruses is largest ever recorded on land, sign of warming arctic

Morgan Erickson-Davis 1 Oct 2014

Changing climate, changing conservation paradigms in Canada’s boreal forests

Julian Moll-rocek 19 Sep 2014

‘Canary in the cornfield’: monarch butterfly may get threatened species status

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 Sep 2014

The last of her kind: centennial of the death of the world’s last passenger pigeon

Morgan Erickson-Davis 1 Sep 2014

More trouble with tar sands: oil extraction leading to big forest loss in Alberta

Dr Liz Kimbrough 29 Aug 2014

How do we save the world’s vanishing old-growth forests?

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2014

Greenpeace alleges SLAPP suit tactic by logging company

Mongabay.com 22 Aug 2014

Scientists can now accurately count polar bears…from space

Jeremy Hance 17 Jul 2014

By the bones: herring populations were superabundant before commercial fisheries

Nicholas Barrett 9 Jun 2014

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