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First Nations drummers at U.N. COP15 Nature and Culture summit. Image by UN Biodiversity via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Amid struggling COP15 talks, Indigenous leaders from Canada offer some solutions

Chris Arsenault 14 Dec 2022

Report unveils ties between Indonesian conglomerate Sinar Mas and Canada’s Paper Excellence

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Nov 2022

Greenland shark, world’s longest-living vertebrate, gets long-awaited protection

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Oct 2022
Torrance Coste stands on a stump

British Columbia delays promised protections as old growth keeps falling

Justin Catanoso 14 Sep 2022

Monarch butterflies are officially endangered

Liz Kimbrough 21 Jul 2022

How marine conservation benefits from combining Indigenous knowledge and Western science

Mike Gaworecki 28 Jun 2022
Grizzly bear in British Columbia, Canada. Image courtesy of Anthony Bucci.

First Nation reclaims territory by declaring Indigenous protected area in Canada

Erica Gies 6 Jun 2022
The Hudson Bay Lowland landscape is as much water as land. The deep peat soils of the region store billions of tonnes of carbon. Image courtesy of WCS Canada.

Canada mining push puts major carbon sink and Indigenous lands in the crosshairs

Spoorthy Raman 2 Jun 2022
Green-lipped mussels. Image courtesy of Adrian Midgley via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Indigenous, ingenious and sustainable aquaculture from the distant past to today

Mike Gaworecki 2 Jun 2022

Saving old-growth forests: Q&A with Amazon Watch’s Leila Salazar-López

Maxwell Radwin 22 Apr 2022
Two caribou climb a hill. Image courtesy of Kevin L Moore via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Indigenous knowledge and science team up to triple a caribou herd

Chris Arsenault 21 Apr 2022

Activists vow to take EU to court to fight its forest biomass policies

Justin Catanoso 14 Mar 2022
Canada marine

In Canada, Indigenous communities and scientists collaborate on marine research

Moira Donovan 15 Feb 2022

Innovative sewage solutions: Tackling the global human waste problem

Sean Mowbray 25 Jan 2022
Mushrooms

Scientists on a quest to map worldwide web of fungi beneath our feet

Carolyn Cowan 17 Dec 2021

How wildlife crossings in Canada are inspiring safer roads for global species

Shannon Kelleher 17 Dec 2021

COP26: Surging wood pellet industry threatens climate, say experts

Sharon Guynup 9 Nov 2021

Indigenous bioacoustics listens to the land for conservation and tradition

Mike Gaworecki 27 Oct 2021

Keep polar bears and their extensive range safe from oil drilling (Commentary)

Steve Blackledge and Dyani Chapman 8 Oct 2021

Two threatened whale groups had a mini baby boom, but not because of lockdown

Laurel Neme 5 Oct 2021

Oil pipeline on Native lands ramps up as Canada honors its Indigenous people

Latoya Abulu 30 Sep 2021

When North America locked down, birds filled the gap left by people

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Sep 2021

When COVID shut Broadway, award-winning actress Jane Alexander went birding

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Sep 2021

Will ‘ropeless’ fishing gear be seaworthy in time to save endangered whales?

John Cannon 2 Sep 2021

North American paper industry merger sets off environmental alarms

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Sep 2021
Old growth trees in Olympic National Park. Image courtesy of Matt Shiffler Photography via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Old-growth forests of Pacific Northwest could be key to climate action

Justin Catanoso 1 Sep 2021

Swarm technology: Researchers experiment with drones to battle crop pests

Ashley Stumvoll 13 Aug 2021
Grizzly bear

For monitoring mammals, eDNA boasts ‘killer feature’ over other methods

Carolyn Cowan 21 Jul 2021

The science of forest biomass: Conflicting studies map the controversy

Justin Catanoso 12 Jul 2021

As the rest of world tackles plastics disposal, the U.S. resists

Charles Pekow 17 May 2021

Leaders make bold climate pledges, but is it ‘all just smoke and mirrors?’: Critics

Justin Catanoso 23 Apr 2021

With British Columbia’s last old-growth at risk, government falters: Critics

Justin Catanoso 20 Apr 2021

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