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  The first time the jeeeeeeeee sound of a male wood duck’s whistle makes you look at one, you might blink–then look twice. The patterns and bright colours of the male plumage look, well,...

How does a Pacific Tree Frog sound to you? Rib-bit-rib-bit? Croaoaoakk? A creaky door opening on a haunted fairy house?    BC’s tiniest frogs are the emerald or brown tree frogs, Pseudacris regilla. Jewel-like...

We're shining a spotlight on the unsung heroes of BC defending the waters they care about with our new Local Watershed Heroes Series.

The watersheds of BC are a landscape photographer’s dream. There’s a major challenge, though: to capture them, you have to be willing to get wet.  Waterproof boots are so essential to her work, says...

This investigation by the Narwhal of the Coastal GasLink pipeline shows how emergency plans failed to protect watersheds--and points to the need for much stronger rules and enforcement by the provincial and federal governments. ...

By Marc Fawcett-Atkinson, Local Journalism Initiative reporter for the National Observer  On a rare sunny late October day, a quartet of swimmers gathered around a deep pool ready to immerse themselves in the frigid...

Forget the boy who cried wolf. A different boy, El Niño, has arrived in B.C. And with some people comparing him to the monster Godzilla, or martial artist Bruce Lee, he makes wolves seem...

If you stand beside the Cowichan River today and watch the water surge through the rainforest, it’s hard to imagine that last summer was so parched that tens of thousands of juvenile salmon died–or...

B.C. is clearly not out of the woods yet as wildfires continue to burn, and many communities face fall drought conditions. Rain and colder weather have arrived, but it has not been enough to...

When we have a water pipe problem in a building, we call an engineer to design a fix. When we have a watershed issue–like regular flooding that threatens a town, or droughts that threaten...