Ancient wetlands and a futuristic island come to Toronto’s Don River
When completed, Villiers Island will be one of the first “climate positive” communities in Toronto.
It’s the first Pride in two years, and I’ll be in the water at Hanlan’s Point
For decades, an afternoon at the nude beach on the Toronto Islands has been a...
Plovers quarrel: a tiny, endangered bird returns to Sauble Beach to find sunbathers dug into the sand
Fined $100,000 for destroying piping plover habitat, the Town of South Bruce Peninsula is headed...
The report on Ontario’s natural resources the government didn’t want you to read
The Ford government held back a report on Ontario’s ecosystems until The Narwhal made a...
What happens when the ice disappears?
In our latest newsletter, we take you to the shores of Gitchigumi for a story...
Breaking up: ice loss is changing one Anishinaabe fisherman’s relationship with Lake Superior
Sometime in the early 1990s, the ice was so unusually thick and smooth on Gitchigumi...
Holding in the deep: what Canada wants to do with its decades-old pileup of nuclear waste
Canada plans to store spent nuclear fuel deep, deep underground in the Great Lakes basin....
Lakes are losing their ice cover faster than ever — here’s what that means for us
Climate change is shortening the season when lakes are frozen over, and some of the...
Fresh, local and forgotten: on Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, families fight to save their fisheries
The Great Lakes are a freshwater ecosystem rich with aquatic life, but researchers warn of...
