Environment

Most of us have the good fortune to raise our families in safe, comfortable houses. Birds want nothing less. 

Rivers in the Headwaters region still flow clean, clear and cool through areas not yet urbanized. This natural heritage is a gift to area residents and well worth protecting.

Don Scallen explores how birds, mammals and reptiles have adapted to survive our long, trying winter.

Looking to bring colour and joy to those grey winter days? Setting up a feeder for our fine feathered friends is a mutually beneficial move.

Male tree crickets – rock stars of the insect realm – sing to attract females, and display other courtship behaviour not so different from ours.

Fall is the perfect time to get down low and take a closer peek at the stunningly diverse and complex organisms that are fungi

As another battle over aggregate mining gears up in Cataract, the question remains: how do we balance our voracious demand for aggregates with the rights of local citizens and nature?

The illustrator behind The Sweetgrass Chronicles series turns his attention to the hills of Mulmur.

What the leaders, students and parents of local outdoor school programs want us to know about the power of outdoor learning.

From a swath of turf grass came a thriving meadow ecosystem full of wild flowers, pollinators and biodiversity.

Bats hunt with their astonishing echolocating ability, sending out pulses of sound and then “reading” the returning echoes for the shape signatures of potential prey.

Could the answer to my pollination puzzle be butterfly wings?