Every spring, residents of the North Shore watch for a number of milestone nature sightings. Some watch for the return of ...

Canada lynx are among the most specialized cold-weather predators on Earth, built to survive brutal northern winters where temperatures can plunge below -60°C . Their massive snowshoe-like paws allow ...

Climate change is driving the emergence and re-emergence of climate-sensitive infectious diseases in Canada. Such emerging ...

From a lunging frog to the majestic movements of penguins, the honored photographs capture the wonder of wildlife and beauty ...

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The population dynamics of snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) and Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) are emblematic of classic predator–prey cycles in boreal and sub-boreal ecosystems. Hare numbers typically ...

That was the advice I told the crew of our Snowshoe Hare hunters. Two weeks before the opening of Snowshoe Hare season, which is always the week following Christmas Day, the weather forecast was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I stood at the edge of a snow-choked evergreen swamp, slowly congealing and thinking moodily how much white-rabbit hunting has in ...

Over the years I had opportunities to observe snowshoe hares while working with students at the Environmental Learning Center first at Isabella, Minn., and the last three decades at Wolf Ridge, near ...

Railroads played a major role in the development of northern Michigan due to accessing and transporting lumber downstate - not to mention wild game, especially deer, being routinely taken by market ...

On a recent warm spring day in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, wildlife biologist Alexej Siren found something exciting: snowshoe hare tracks in a fleeting patch of snow. “We have these larger hind ...