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The Narwhal’s team of investigative journalists dives deep to tell stories about the natural world in Canada you can’t find anywhere else.

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A small Manitoba town grapples with a big wind power proposal

Imagine an emissions-free, Indigenous-owned energy project — with turbines twice as tall as anything else nearby. Inside the complicated conversation over a wind farm proposal in Polonia, Man.

A $200M carbon capture project gains support in Manitoba

Deep Sky, a direct air carbon capture facility proposed in southern Manitoba, says it is ready to launch with some help from the government — and a company representing Anthropic, Google and Shopify

A popular lodge returns to First Nations in Manitoba’s Seal River Watershed

The Lodge at Little Duck has been purchased by the Sayisi Dene First Nation as part of an effort to bring back both economic opportunity and a healing space for community members

Winnipeg’s trees are worth $740 million. Here’s how the city is taking care of them

As Dutch elm disease marched west across Canada, Winnipeg’s trees were decimated. The city is now planting 6,000 trees each year — but young trees face many challenges

Advocates call for end to new mining in Nopiming Park after 2025 fires

After a fire in Manitoba’s Nopiming Park burned an area nearly 8 times the size of Winnipeg, a conservation group calls on government to ‘give peace to the park’

As farmland becomes an investment strategy, farmers are pushed out

Farmland prices are higher than ever, perhaps due to the increased interest of investors. Add in tariffs, climate change and high prices and the financial squeeze is ruining many farmers — small and large

Why isn’t there more solar power in one of Canada’s sunniest provinces?

Canada’s second-sunniest province is running low on energy — but Manitoba is turning to fossil fuels instead of solar panels

How nature makes Canada lots of money — in 9 charts

Conserved and protected areas in Canada are invaluable — but we have 9 charts that try to capture their economic impact

The staggering price tag of one of Canada’s worst wildfire seasons

Our analysis found $500 million in expenses directly attributable to last year’s wildfires in Manitoba — from evacuation flights to lost homes to closed business to burned power poles. The true costs are even larger

Seal River Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area moves closer to reality

If approved, the Seal River Watershed, one of the world’s largest intact watersheds, could be formally protected