1+ week, 5+ hour ago  (1130+ words) Ontario's Endangered Species Act is now officially repealed. The province says the move will allow quicker approvals for road, mining and housing developments, while experts say it could streamline destruction of critical habitats, further threatening wildlife such as woodland caribou,…...

3+ week, 14+ hour ago  (614+ words) Few of us will admit to loving coyotes. The distaste for this exclusively North American canid runs deep: in a 1985 Yale University study respondents ranked them beneath skunks, rattlesnakes and vultures in terms of popularity. But are they simply misunderstood?...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (598+ words) By Anna Maria Tremonti If you've been listening closely lately " to global headlines, to the tone of public debate, to economic threats " you might be feeling a kind of knot in your stomach. I've spent decades in journalism, including 17 years…...

4+ week, 1+ hour ago  (613+ words) We're trying out staff-written summaries. Did you find this useful? Yes No A Manitoba farming research non-profit will now have more space to let cattle roam and graze on prairie grasslands " and study how that grazing impacts biodiversity " through a…...

1+ mon, 7+ hour ago  (1101+ words) We're trying out staff-written summaries. Did you find this useful? Yes No There are just four years left on the clock for Manitoba " and the rest of the country " in the race to conserve 30 per cent of lands and waters…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (669+ words) We're trying out staff-written summaries. Did you find this useful? Yes No The Ford government is moving ahead with its plan to merge 36 conservation authorities into nine, two more than originally proposed. And it has created an agency with a…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1410+ words) A large herd of bagwaji-bizhikiwag (wood bison) call Chitek Lake Anishinaabe Provincial Park in Manitoba home " and their community recently grew even larger. On Feb. 18, the herd welcomed 10 new bulls and cows to their territory nestled between Lake Winnipegosis and…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (1076+ words) A six-decade history in the Great Lakes region of ecosystem and water protection is being put to the test as a dynamic era of energy investment, rising electricity demand, aging assets and political intervention dawns across the basin. The energy…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (939+ words) More than 5, 000 wild species are at some risk of extinction in Canada, largely because the places they live are disappearing. Yet despite repeated promises, Canada appears to have failed to meet its target of protecting 25 per cent of its forests,…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago  (1079+ words) Standing on the Athabasca Glacier in Jasper National Park, Alta. , the wind picks up with an icy bite." It will be a lot warmer down there, our guide tells me, pointing to a moulin, a hole in the glacier formed…...