Environment

And with spring come the ducks!

If you want to avoid catching a cold, keep your nose warm, wash your hands a lot and stay away from children.

A mink can swim 30 meters underwater, dive to five meters, curl up with a clear conscience to sleep in a muskrat den after having murdered all the occupants.

How high oil prices are affecting life In The Hills.

CLEAN, RENEWABLE AND FREE. Call it what you like, with the support of large grants and rebates for installation, Headwaters residents are pulling heat from the ground.

In Finland, masonry heaters are known as “heart of the home,” and in Russia it’s “soul of the home,” reflecting the importance they have in people’s lives.

Some 150 new candy bars hit the shelves every year, but 65 per cent of U.S. brands have been around for more than six decades.

Tiny cones hang down at branch tips, over winter they will open and release seed.

The Everpure Biodiesel Co-op aims to put the ‘bio’ back in biofuels.

The provincial growth plans have focussed on the cities but “there’s been nothing about the spaces in between,” he says. “If we want farming to be an integral part of the GTA, the province has to turn its attention to the next step, which is creating a viable protected countryside economy.”

From dusk until dawn, our local bats perform an aerial ballet, devouring millions of flying insects.

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.