A playlist of 11 ecology music videos. The majority of songs are by the late singer-songwriter-poet Walkin’ Jim Stoltz who hiked over 28,000 miles through the wilderness. Songs about habitats, rivers, buffalo, pikas, bears, trees, prairie dogs, and bugs. …

A snowstorm that closed schools in parts of southern Ontario and Quebec on Monday will keep many of them dark for another day, while some parts of the Prairies that were already hit with freezing rain are now contending with plunging temperatures and snow. Several boards in the Toronto area, like the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District…

Sporting bright-orange inflatable air sacs, the Attwater’s prairie chicken has long been a feature of the Texas and Louisiana landscapes. Their numbers were once so plentiful that cowboys relied upon them for fresh meat while herding cattle far from the ranch. With the introduction of agriculture, woody species invasion, and human settlement, though, habitat loss…