Mark Mann

“Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.” Jennifer Osborne sometimes thinks about this line from Shakespeare’s play The Tempest when she reflects on taking photos in fire zones. “You’re like, ‘This is the most terrifying thing I can imagine,’”…

In 2008 newspapers started reporting on a hot new trend in civil disobedience: guerrilla gardening. The New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, and Reuters all published features on the movement, which saw feisty urbanites sowing wildflowers and planting…

This is part of the Dossier Black Lives, Green Spaces. Intersectional environmentalism is an idea whose time has finally come, and few people are doing more to popularize and advance the concept than Leah Thomas. “Social justice… is not an optional…

The mountaineering community is rallying around a citizen-science initiative to track the growing phenomenon of “pink snow.” Robin Kodner was buying a new bike in Bellingham, Washington, last year when the cashier did a double take. “Wait,” he said.…

Jeff Blackmer remembers the time Robertson Point, N.B., was covered in water and his family cottage nearly didn’t make it. During the massive flood of 2008, the rising waters of Grand Lake climbed three feet up the walls and sloshed through the…

Doug McLean/shutterstock Most flood-proofing advice centres on keeping the water out. But if your property is at risk of severe overland flooding, it turns out that might not be the best strategy. If you make your basement into a watertight…

Greenseas/shutterstock With flooding becoming the new normal, here’s how to protect your property with a little planning ahead. Basic steps everyone can do before flooding strikes to help prevent damage at the cottage: At the shoreline Protect or…

Torrential storms have become the new normal. They’re turning our basements into lakes and our streets into rivers. Is Toronto ready for the age of the flood? On the evening of August 7, 2018, Gavin Odho and his girlfriend, Manuela De Medeiros, had…

Is the viscous green sludge that coats the water an ecological disaster—or just a nuisance for beachgoers? Lake winnipeg is large and changes colour. As summer progresses, parts of it slowly shift from milky mahogany to bluish green, and by August,…