Hurricane Surfing
Nova Scotia’s free surfers search for dangerous waves—and keep them secret
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Our latest stories on the environment, climate change, the health of our ecosystems, the people fighting to protect our natural world, and the industries working to change
Primate Directive
Biruté Galdikas, the world’s leading orangutan expert and a one-time helicopter mom, struggles to let go
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As the Crow Flies
Crows are harbingers of doom, urban pests—and a little too human
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Illustration by Joel KimmelIn an essay in this magazine last September, J.B. MacKinnon argued that one of the obstacles we face in measuring environmental degradation is short-sightedness. We observe changes …
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Human Nature
How the fear of rejection over garbage collection just might save the environment
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Cold Blood
Since 2002, Alberta’s wild horses have been picked off with brutal abandon. Who is responsible?
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Invasion of the Killer Bugs
A team of entomologists defends Canada from foreign insect species
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Whalebones
Saving the remains of the world’s biggest animal
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Illustration by Errol F. Richardson Afew years ago, on a trip to Patagonia, I came across an unlikely Canadian diaspora. In the 1940s, a colony of fifty beavers had been …
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Decomposing Bodies
What’s the greenest way to dispose of human remains?
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