When Stephen King was growing up in North Portal, Saskatchewan, barn swallows were a common sight.

In the 1920s, scientists identified aurora trout as a new species native only to northeastern Ontario.

After dam removals and fish passage improvements, endangered Atlantic salmon are returning to the Penobscot River in encouraging numbers.

From a rocky outcrop in the forest surrounding Penticton, members of the UBC Okanagan Wildlife Society gaze across a valley onto a steep sun-drenched slope, as government wildlife biologist Craig McLean details what he has spotted.

Canada has committed to protecting nearly 20 per cent of the country’s landscape by 2020.

Commercial organic and synthetic nitrogen fertilizer helps feed around half of the world’s population.

Urban sprawl has led to the creation of food deserts in metropolitan areas across the United States, according to a published study by a researcher at The University of Texas at Arlington.

Roundworm infections can be reduced significantly simply by improving the treatment and quality of drinking water in high risk regions, according to an international team of researchers led by Tufts University.

More than one million plant and animal species worldwide are facing extinction, according to a recent United Nations report.

A combination of waste materials supplemented with a product of biomass could help in the search for high quality soils, a new study suggests.