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“What swims like a fish, cuts like a chainsaw, logs like a lumberjack and transforms landscapes like a water engineer?” That riddle, from Nature Conservancy Canada, has an easy answer. It’s Canada’s national symbol,...

Is any creature in BC as under-appreciated as the caddisfly? Caddisflies are shape-shifters and master builders who exist in both water and air. They are hairy-winged cousins of moths and butterflies, and relatives of...

At CodeBlue BC all critters fascinate us. None, however, are more otterly charming than BC’s two kinds of otters.  Sea otters, Enhydra lutris, are the cute ‘uns that cradle their babies on their bellies...

If the snowpack in BC’s mountains is like a bank savings account–because it stores water for hard dry times–the province is dangerously in the red. BC’s snowpack is averaging just 66% of what has...

Hay fields, like this one in Pemberton, are now turning brown in BC's historic drought. Some farmers see regenerative agriculture methods as a solution. Photo Copyright Deborah Jones   By Matt Simmons, Local Journalism...

  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.