A 94-year-old wants to welcome Ontarians to paradise. A parking lot nearly stood in her way
Schneider Woods in Wilmot Township will become a 95-hectare nature reserve, after council drops parking...
Many birds are named for enslavers, colonizers and white supremacists. That’s about to change
Black birdwatchers on the practice’s racist history, the move to rename North America’s feathered species...
‘She’s out here trailblazing’: these 10 Black environmentalists are building community
Black Canadian scientists, researchers and environmental advocates discuss the importance of mentors, protégés and friends...
‘Prairie potholes’ could be climate solutions — if we stop destroying them
Small wetlands across Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba are thought to store more carbon per hectare...
Restoring Ontario’s lost grasslands is as important as planting trees
Many old farm fields in southern Ontario look a lot like this one, which last...
Power move: two Anishinaabeg farmers are decolonizing Toronto’s hydro fields
Under the transmission towers of Malvern and Flemingdon Park, Indigenous agricultural knowledge is being shared...
The $500,000 fight to protect a Muskoka wetland
Very few of Ontario’s quickly vanishing marshes and swamps are safe from development. A group...
The unlikely love story of an endangered tree and the little bird who eats its seeds
The balance of an ecosystem hangs on the survival of a scraggly mountain tree. In...
Hope, with teeth
In our latest newsletter, we talk about how solutions journalism lets us take in what’s...
