Environment

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.

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?

From a small observatory in a Belfountain backyard, the heavens are revealed.

Rural life means getting your water from a well. But do you know how your system operates and how to keep it healthy?

The breeders and the egg stealers make a river chub nest a happening place in springtime.

Calvin and his kin depend on two things for their survival: forest and fishless ponds.

Merlins have been recorded nesting in Orangeville, Caledon Village and just south of Headwaters in Georgetown.

Animals use camouflage, poison and deception to live another day.

The “zombie” highway will hurt the environment, fail to solve the problems it aims to address – and there are better ideas to explore.