ENTOMOLOGY
Peril of the prairie?
Canada’s foremost grasshopper expert is on a mission to save harmless hoppers from the war on crop-eaters

CONSERVATION
Coral champions
Two fishermen convince the world’s top marine biologists to probe the damage trawlers are wreaking on deep-sea coral
By David Lees

RESTORATION
Buried rivers
Our cities have swallowed them, but a new movement is resurrecting our forgotten waterways
By Ian Coutts

THROUGH THE LENS
Water Wanderers
Plankton provide the air we breathe and the fuel we burn, and are the food for much of oceanic life
Photography by Bill Curtsinger with text by Elizabeth Shilts

CLIMATE CHANGE
Island muse
A climate-change futurist tackles the dire predictions of a controversial discipline
By Anita Lahey

The Inside Story
News from The Royal Canadian Geographical Society

Editor’s notebook
Speaking for the commons

Reverberations
Ellesmere on my mind, Out-of-this-world experience

Discovery
Frog atlas, Toxic troublemaker, Trudeau Falls, Rating sewage treatment

Eco-audit
Tracking our habits at home, work and play

À la carte
Canada’s climate in 2050

Reviews
The year’s best enviro books

Mosaic
Anglers of mercy

In habitat
Untamed world By Elizabeth Kelly