“I think that’s a common thread for explorers — the desire to feel small and insignificant in something much larger. There’s this serene, peaceful other-worldliness to the North. You go up there once, ...

On a bright spring day in southern Newfoundland, a crowd has gathered at the Ta’n Etl-Mawita’mk Community Center on Miawpukek First Nation as the community prepares to send a group of their youth off ...

Another reckoning is coming with climate change. How do we deal with our mental health — and ultimately find hope? I’m walking up a ridge of bedrock outside my house, talking to my brother 1,800 ...

An ambitious initiative by the Rideau Hall Foundation seeks to enrich Canada’s learning landscape with 10,000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis teachers, transforming education for Indigenous students ...

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 ...

Dendrobaena octaedra is a the most common non-native earthworm species we are finding in Canada’s boreal forest. (Photo: Stephen Paterson) Earthworms have long been recognized as some of the most ...

Leif Erickson, Erik the Red’s son, overlooks this expedition cruise, just outside Qassiarsuk, Greenland. “Good morning, everyone. Good morning.” It’s 5:30 a.m., and a speaker-announcement jolts me ...

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 ...

How the legacy of these woolly giants persists in pop culture, storytelling, ecology and even the controversial idea of de-extinction The way Travis Delawski tells it, he woke up in the morning, had a ...

Announcing a new initiative to connect to and protect the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence watershed In the embrace of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence watershed, we find ourselves guardians of a global treasure: ...

When it comes to home insulation, R-value is a crucial factor to consider. Although I knew it was a quantifiable way to measure insulation, I don’t know if I could ever explain what it was. R-value ...

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 ...