Celia Milne

Sep 6, 2024 | onnaturemagazine.com | Caroline M. Schultz |Celia Milne |Conor Mihell |Julia Zarankin

Time to pause and reflect. By Caroline SchultzThe endangered bogbean buckmoth canbe found today in only two places in Canada: two isolated fens in eastern Ontario. If those habitats disappear, so willthis beautiful moth. By Celia MilneThe community of Stittsville is fighting to preserve a collection of wetlands that new provincial regulations have stripped of protection. Leading the community is a former politician weathered by conservation wins and losses.

Jun 14, 2024 | thenarwhal.ca | Julia-Simone Rutgers |Denise Balkissoon |Celia Milne |Drew Anderson

Did you know you’re reading an award-winning newsletter — about award-winning journalism?! The Narwhal added to a wheelbarrow of trophies last week at the 2024 Digital Publishing Awards: Nourish, a series on First Nations food sovereignty, won gold in best editorial package, reporter Emma McIntosh’s reporting in collaboration with the Toronto Star took home gold in best news coverage, and Emma’s explainer on Ontario’s highways also snagged gold for best service feature! In the best...

Jun 14, 2024 | thenarwhal.ca | Celia Milne |Ainslie Cruickshank |Steph Kwetásel’wet Wood

A significant stretch of endangered caribou habitat in northeast B.C. has been permanently protected in the newly expanded Klinse-Za / Twin Sisters Park, First Nations and the B.C. and federal governments announced today. The announcement comes more than four years after West Moberly First Nations, Saulteau First Nations and the provincial and federal governments agreed to work together to recover caribou herds teetering on the brink of extinction.

Jun 14, 2024 | thenarwhal.ca | Elaine Anselmi |Celia Milne

You can hear the chimney swifts’ high-pitched twittering from the sidewalk. Darting through the evening sky, their rapid-fire chirp is easy to pick out — as soon as you know what to listen for. Their cylindrical bodies — often likened to cigars — swoop as the sun eases toward the horizon. They feast on flying insects and inflect urban skylines in central and eastern Canada in the spring and summer. Above downtown Peterborough, Ont., chimney swifts are a common sight and sound on summer evenings.

Jun 13, 2024 | thenarwhal.ca | Celia Milne |Denise Balkissoon

Ingrid Waldron wrote a book about how pollution, contamination and other environmental ills in Canada affect Indigenous, Black and racialized communities more than others. Along with actor and film producer Elliot Page, she turned the book into a documentary of the same name, There’s Something in the Water. She moved from Toronto to Halifax to teach at Dalhousie University, where she did groundbreaking research centering Mi’kmaw and Black communities.