A few years ago, Kelly Brown, a Haíłzaqv (Heiltsuk) community member from a village on the central coast of British Columbia, was out exploring his homelands with an elder when they came across the ...

Congratulations to Heather Pringle on winning a Canadian Archaeological Association (CAA) Public Communications Award for this article. What I remember most about Jacques Cinq-Mars the first time we ...

These squeakers will go to a friend who will fatten them up at his farm over the next year or so, until they are closing in on 150 kilograms. In other words, a size worthy of a luau. Pigs may be a ...

Marine Protected Areas, Explained There’s nuance in how we protect our oceans; here are the details. by Brian Owens June 8, 2023 | 4,700 words, about 23 minutes This article is also available in audio ...

The Faroe Islands are a wind-battered nation of sea cliffs and clouds, villages tucked in mossy valleys along fjords, and volcanic bluffs backed by foggy mountains. Some 54,000 people live on 17 of ...

Saving a Sea Monkey Sanctuary As the Great Salt Lake in Utah shrinks, locals are working to preserve its critical brine shrimp fishery—along with the other entities that flourish in the lake’s strange ...

In Nome, Where the Muskoxen Roam … Controversially In Alaska, residents are negotiating a contentious relationship with muskoxen, which were introduced to the area decades ago without local consent.

On a bright day at the ocean’s surface, with rays of light caroming off the water in every direction, it can feel like sunlight is all there is. Some of this light penetrates below the surface into ...

The Uncertain Future of Puffin for Dinner Hunting and eating puffins are Icelandic traditions. But for how much longer? by Cheryl Katz January 17, 2017 | 3,700 words, about 19 minutes This article is ...

Weird, Rare, and Everywhere In the bogs of Hecate Island, British Columbia, a writer and novice naturalist joins researchers for a glimpse of a multiyear biodiversity mission—and gets acquainted with ...

Experts estimate that one million tonnes of chemical weapons lie on the ocean floor—from Italy’s Bari harbor, where 230 sulfur mustard exposure cases have been reported since 1946, to the US east ...

Why We Can’t Shake Ambergris The odd, enduring appeal of a scarce commodity few people use and no one really needs. Text by Mark Wilding Illustrations by Aurélie Beatley August 17, 2021 | 3,300 words, ...