AB-Jasper-Pipeline-Parkinson

Trans Mountain, with its pipeline threatened in Jasper wildfire, has long said wildfire risk is ‘low’

Despite a wildfire risk deemed ‘low,’ the Trans Mountain pipeline ended up among ‘critical infrastructure’...

ONT-Toronto-HumberBayPark-shoreline-TheNarwhal-ChrisKatsarovLuna-header

Missed calls, forgotten instructions: inside an oil spill cleanup on Toronto waterways

A provincial spill report details a list of issues that arose as crews responded to...

ONT-Toronto-MimicoCreekmouth-LakeOntario-TheNarwhal-ChrisKatsarovLuna-Mimico

‘Containment breached’: how an oil spill in northwest Toronto made its way to Lake Ontario

Last summer, contaminated sludge from a fire at a chemical plant reached Lake Ontario. The...

GitanyowBurnShootIIDrone---2

B.C. wildfires: what you need to know

Tracking B.C.’s wildfire season with essential information about fire locations, evacuations, terminology and more

ArgentaFireCrew_LouisBockner-49-scaled

Care and action amid flames in southeast B.C.

Between volunteering in shifts to fight wildfires, photographer Louis Bockner penned a first-person account of...

ArgentaFireCrew_LouisBockner-33

When a wildfire came to my remote B.C. community, residents headed to the frontlines

Photographer Louis Bockner is part of the Argenta, B.C., community fire crew that recently leapt...

BrickWorksflooding4

It could have been so much worse: flooding swamped a Toronto landmark designed to deal with stormwater

While a July storm wreaked havoc on the green community hub, its climate-ready design curbed...

Carmen_Eriel_Seaice_PhotobyMaevaG

In Tuktoyaktuk, nail art offers a novel record of climate change

A research project engages youth in creative documentation of the environment

Elijah Voge-Meyers

The Newfoundland cod moratorium is over — but the risk remains

The fish population is still less than a quarter of what it was half a...

Recent Posts

Our newsletter subscribers are the first to find out when we break a big story. Sign up for free →
An illustration, in yellow, of a computer, with an open envelope inside it with letter reading 'Breaking news.'
Our newsletter subscribers are the first to find out when we break a major investigation. Want in? Sign up for free to get the inside scoop on The Narwhal’s reporting on the natural world.
Hey, are you on our list?
An illustration, in yellow, of a computer, with an open envelope inside it with letter reading 'Breaking news.'
Our newsletter subscribers are the first to find out when we break a major investigation. Want in? Sign up for free to get the inside scoop on The Narwhal’s reporting on the natural world.
Hey, are you on our list?
An illustration, in yellow, of a computer, with an open envelope inside it with letter reading 'Breaking news.'