Environment

A red-tailed hawk’s vision can be 10 times more acute than ours.

How good is your eye? Take our camouflage challenge and test your knowledge.

Turkeys – especially rival tom turkeys can be highly entertaining to watch at this time of year.

Asters and goldenrods are tremendously important wildlife plants.

We need to learn more about honeybees and other pollinators so we can contribute intelligently to the conversation about their health and well-being.

Ash is doomed. Beech and butternut hover on the brink.

With a proposal to flatten his farm fields, a Mono farmer stepped squarely into the centre an environmental hornets’ nest.

The migration of ruby-throated hummingbirds to and from the tropics puzzled early birdwatchers.

Butterflies are some of the most beautiful and interesting creatures on earth and can be easily attracted to your garden.

The Growth Plan was an attempt to rein in the low-density sprawl that was a signature of development in the 1980s and 1990s.

Ontario launched the Greenbelt Plan’s 10-year review, which is taking place concurrently with reviews of the Niagara Escarpment Plan, the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan & Places to Grow.

In less than two decades Caledon’s population will be 75 per cent urban. Can its countryside values survive the shift?