Environment

A British study suggests that for every minute you walk, you live about three minutes longer. You’re not using time, you’re generating time.

Grasses have flowers just like roses or daisies.

If beavers are permitted to help reverse wetland losses, frogs will be among the happy beneficiaries.

There’s a population boom coming to Headwaters. Where will all the people go and what will it mean for our countryside?

When I moved to Caledon from Toronto in 1974, feeling all starry-eyed and back-to-the-landish, as befitted the mood of the times, the population of the newly minted “town” was just…

Boost “Deficit spending is already beyond belief, and the country is hugely indebted, as are households. The housing bubble has already burst. The Federal Reserve has made clear it will…

Eastern Meadowlarks decline 24% in 20 years.

In the spring breeding season hares indulge in boxing matches.

Human Burnout “The trends in Vital Signs 2007-2008 make it overwhelmingly clear that while Earth itself is almost certainly not dying, many of the planet’s ecological systems are. And the…

With piercing eyes and haunting cry, so flies the lord of the midnight sky.

Feast of Fields connects the links in the local food chain in an annual festival of fun and flavour.

“What would you rather have, spiders sitting in webs where you can see them, or bugs wandering around undetected?” asks Tom Mason.