Environment

Starlings were introduced to New York City from Europe in the 1890s, there are now more than over 200 million of them in North America.

Mastodons fed largely on the twigs and branches of trees but undoubtedly enjoyed fruit as well.

It’s not just the tracks, but the story they tell.

Blue jays are villains – winged brigands with a penchant for raiding the nests of other birds to devour eggs and nestlings.

Herons, egrets and bitterns are long-legged freshwater and coastal birds in the family Ardeidae.

An ode to the army who enables our green conscience and takes out the trash.

The best thing about the blue box is how widely accepted the concept has become and it started right here in Ontario, Canada.

Hundreds of truckloads of baled recycling materials are shipped out of the Peel Integrated Material Recovery Facility each week to industries who use them in manufacturing.

My new four-foot-tall recycling bin toppled on its side, sending cereal boxes, newspapers and yogurt containers blowing in all directions.

Too often belittled as “idle” land awaiting development – or “rescued” by reforestation – meadows deserve the same protection and respect as our woodlands and wetlands.

To an entomologist, “true bugs” are insects that suck. No insult intended – they really do suck.

Next time you stumble across a spider try not to scream or reach for a shoe.