Environment

A primer on the rivers of Headwaters

A Creemore charity works to ensure clean water security for First Nation communities

Without words, are we lost in the woods? How words connect us to nature.

Water springs up all around us in the streams and rivers and marshes and pools of the four major watersheds that sculpt our landscape and feed three Great Lakes.

French artist Hubert Duprat capitalized on this in the 1980s by supplying caddisflies with flecks of gold and tiny precious stones.

Five ways butterflies survive the winter.

Muskrats are largely herbivorous – chomping cattail roots and shoots is a favourite pastime.

Skip the supermarket, find the ingredients for gourmet dining in forest, field and stream.

Please harvest wild leeks sustainably, taking only 5 to 15 per cent of a given population a year.

Pineapple Weed is a member of the aster family, it is easily overlooked because it lacks petals.

The bird feeder was now far enough from trees to thwart my backyard community of furry filchers.

Not only do these woodpeckers have remarkable adaptations for excavating wood, they also have acute hearing that allows them to pick up the telltale sounds of ants scurrying within trees.