2024

• Winner of the Gold AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award in the Science Reporting – In-Depth category for “A River Runs Above Us.”
• Writer Moira Donovan was awarded the Society of Environmental Journalists award in the Outstanding Beat Reporting, Small category for her coverage of fisheries for Hakai Magazine.
• Winner of the Society of Environmental Journalists award in the Outstanding Feature Story, Small category for “In Defense of the Rat.”
• Winner of the Canadian Association of Journalists award in the Written Feature category for “In Cod’s Shadow, Redfish Rise.”
• Winner of the gold award in the Best Feature Article category at the 2024 Digital Publishing Awards for “Banking on the Seaweed Rush.”
• Winner of the gold award in the Best Topical Reporting: Climate Change category at the 2024 Digital Publishing Awards for “A River Runs Above Us.”
• Winner of the silver award in the Best Science & Technology Storytelling category at the 2024 Digital Publishing Awards for “Shining the Light on Baby Crabs.”
• Winner of the gold award in the Long-Form Feature Writing category at the 2024 Digital Publishing Awards for “A River Runs Above Us.”

2023

• Staff member Marina Wang was honoured as Best Emerging Writer at the 2023 National Magazine Awards for her story “A Community’s Quest to Document Every Species on Their Island Home.”
• Winner of the gold award in the Best Online Video: Mini-Doc category at the 2023 Digital Publishing Awards for “A Bear’s Necessities.”
• Staff member Jude Isabella was awarded the Digital Publishing Leadership Award at the 2023 Digital Publishing Awards.”
• Winner of the American Geophysical Union’s Walter Sullivan Award for “Catching Crabs in a Suffocating Sea.”
• Winner of the Society of Professional Journalists Northwest Excellence Award for “Catching Crabs in a Suffocating Sea.”
• Winner of the 2023 National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Journalism Award in the Science Reporting category for “How Indigenous Sea Gardens Produced Massive Amounts of Food for Millennia.”
• Winner of the second place award in the Outstanding Feature Story, Small category at the 22nd Annual SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment for “Clever Whales and the Violent Fight for Fish on the Line.”
• Winner of the Jack Webster award in the Excellence in Business, Industry, & Labour Reporting category for “Banking on the Seaweed Rush.”

2022

• Winner of the gold award in the Best Short Feature Writing category at the 2022 National Magazine Awards for “Freeing Oysters from a Parasite’s Hold.”
• Winner of the silver award in the Best Feature Article category at the 2022 Digital Publishing Awards for “Where Now Grizzly Bear?.”
• Winner of the second place award in the Outstanding Feature Story, Small category at the 21st Annual SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment for “Three Days in the Theater of Old-Growth Logging and Protest.”
• Winner of the 2022 Canadian Archaeological Association Public Communications Award. Awarded to Brian Payton for “The Ingenious Ancient Technology Concealed in the Shallows.”
• Winner of the 2022 Dave Greber Award for “Three Days in the Theater of Old-Growth Logging and Protest.”

2021

• Winner of the gold award in the Best Feel Good Story category at the 2021 Canadian Online Publishing Awards for “A Cancer-Quashing Microbe Emerges from the Deep.”
• Winner of the gold award in the Best Investigative Article category at the 2021 Canadian Online Publishing Awards for “Flying by the Fat of the Sea.”
• Winner of the gold award in the Best Video Content category at the 2021 Canadian Online Publishing Awards for “It’s Time to Listen.”
• Winner of the silver award in the Best Investigative Article category at the 2021 Canadian Online Publishing Awards for “The Lone Wolf That Was Loved to Death.”
• Winner of the silver award in the Best Photo Journalism category at the 2021 Canadian Online Publishing Awards for “The Whale Bone Squatters.”
• Winner of the silver award in the Best Podcast Series category at the 2021 Canadian Online Publishing Awards for “The Sound Aquatic.”
• Winner of the second place award in the Outstanding Explanatory Reporting, Small category at the 20th Annual SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment for “Big Fish: The Aquacultural Revolution.”

2020

• Winner of the gold award in the Best Investigative Article or Series category at the 2020 Canadian Online Publishing Awards for “Big Fish: The Aquacultural Revolution.”
• Winner of the gold award in the Best Photo Journalism at the 2020 Canadian Online Publishing Awards for “Sea Lion Search and Rescue.”
• Winner of the gold award in the Best Email Newsletter category at the 2020 Canadian Online Publishing Awards.
• Winner of General Excellence in Digital Publishing: Medium Publication at the 2020 Digital Publishing Awards.

2019

• Winner of the gold award in the Independent Publisher of the Year category at the 2019 Canadian Online Publishing Awards.
• Winner of the gold award in the Best Website Design category at the 2019 Canadian Online Publishing Awards.
• Winner of the gold award in the Best Photojournalism category at the 2019 Canadian Online Publishing Awards for “Swimming with Super Grouper.”
• Winner of the gold award in the Best Video Content category at the 2019 Canadian Online Publishing Awards for “Searching the Forest for the Trees.”
• Winner of the gold award in the Best Investigative Article category at the 2019 Canadian Online Publishing Awards for “Searching for Keith.”
• Winner of the gold award in the Best Digital Content category at the 2019 Canadian Online Publishing Awards for “Searching for Keith.”
• Winner of the silver award in the Best Digital Solution category at the 2019 Canadian Online Publishing Awards.
• Winner of the silver award in the Best Photo Journalism category at the 2019 Canadian Online Publishing Awards for “The Hidden Light Show Below.”
• Winner of the silver award in the Best Investigative Article category at the 2019 Canadian Online Publishing Awards for “The Great Dolphin Dilemma.”
• Winner of the gold award in the Best Science and Technology Storytelling category at the 2019 Digital Publishing Awards for The Noose Beneath the Waves.
• Winner of the silver award in the Best Arts and Culture Storytelling category at the 2019 Digital Publishing Awards for The Oracle of Oyster River.

2018

• Winner of the gold award in the Independent Publisher of the Year category at the 2018 Canadian Online Publishing Awards.
• Winner of the gold award in the Best Photojournalism category at the 2018 Canadian Online Publishing Awards for “Spineless Beauty.”
• Winner of the gold award in the Best Video Content category at the 2018 Canadian Online Publishing Awards for “Mexican Fishing Bats.”
• Winner of the gold award in the Best Investigative Article or Series at the 2018 Canadian Online Publishing Awards for “Death of a Modern Wolf.”
• Winner of the silver award in the Best Interactive/Infographic Story category at the 2018 Canadian Online Publishing Awards for “The Truth about Shrimp Rings.”
• Winner of the silver award in the Long-Form Feature Writing category at the 2018 National Magazine Awards. Awarded to J.B. MacKinnon for “Death of a Modern Wolf.”
• Winner of General Excellence in Digital Publishing: Medium Publication at the 2018 Digital Publishing Awards.
• Winner of the gold award in the Best Online Video: Feature category at the 2018 Digital Publishing Awards. Awarded to Grant Callegari, Meigan Henry, Adrienne Mason, and Amorina Kingdon for “Here Be Tiny Dragons (and Other Micro Beasts).”
• Winner of the silver award in the Best Feature Article: Long category at the 2018 Digital Publishing Awards. Awarded to J.B. MacKinnon for “Death of a Modern Wolf.”
• Winner of the silver award in the Best Science and Technology Story category at the 2018 Digital Publishing Awards. Awarded to Bruce Grierson for “Watts in the Water.”
• Winner of the 2018 Canadian Archaeological Association Public Communications Award. Awarded to Heather Pringle for “From Vilified to Vindicated: the Story of Jacques Cinq-Mars.”

2017

• Winner of the gold award in the Best Photojournalism category at the 2017 Canadian Online Publishing Awards for “The Secret World of Bog.”
• Winner of the gold award in the Best Video Content category at the 2017 Canadian Online Publishing Awards for “The Fishermen of Lesbos.”
• Winner of the silver award for Best Email Newsletter at the 2017 Canadian Online Publishing Awards.
• Winner of the silver award in the Best Investigative Article or Series category at the 2017 Canadian Online Publishing Awards for “Rio, the Olympics, and Broken Promises.”
• Second place in the Outstanding Feature Story category of the 2017 SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment. Awarded to Cheryl Katz for “The Uncertain Future of Puffin for Dinner.”
• Winner of the silver award in the Best Online Video: Feature category at the 2017 Digital Publishing Awards. Awarded to Jude Isabella for “The Right to Roam.”
• Winner of the silver award in the Best Feature Article: Long category at the 2017 Digital Publishing Awards. Awarded to Shanna Baker for “Crocodiles Rising.”
• Our staff writer/researcher, Amorina Kingdon, was honoured as Best New Magazine Writer at the 2017 National Magazine Awards for her story “The Questionable Science of Vancouver’s Port Expansion.”
• Winner of the 2017 American Society of Journalists and Authors Award in the best Opinion/Op-Ed category for “The Sadness of Solving a Mystery” by Cameron Walker.

2016

• Winner of the silver award in the Best Article or Series category at the 2016 Canadian Online Publishing Awards for our “Battle for the Coastline” series.
• Winner of the 2016 Jack Webster Awards in the Best Feature Story—Print category. Awarded to J. B. MacKinnon for “The Whale Dying on the Mountain.”
• Winner of the 2016 Canadian Science Writers’ Association’s People’s Choice Award for best Canadian science website.
• Winner of the 2016 Canadian Archaeological Association Public Communications Award. Awarded to Heather Pringle for “Time Travelers.”
• Winner of the silver award in the Best Online-Only Short Feature category at the 2016 Digital Publishing Awards. Awarded to Joshua Rapp Learn for “Beating Back the Crazy Ants.”

2015

• Winner of the silver award in category 151: Special Focus Travel Articles—Internet: Eco, Environmental or Special Purpose Travel at the 2015 North American Travel Journalists Association awards competition. Awarded to Lina Zeldovich for “A Sailing Farmer Steers Toward a Post-Carbon Future.”
• Winner of the 2015 Amnesty Canada Media Award in the online category. Awarded to Josie Glausiusz for “Land Divided, Coast United.”