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.”

2020

• 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.”
• 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.”