Bill Jones writes about his journey from logger to Elder at Fairy Creek, when he finally remembered his grandfather's ...

A dark spectre is looming over the heads of everyone who lives here. More than any other province, Alberta is about to be carved up by companies proposing to build more than 90 large-scale data ...

The village of Cumberland, a former coal-mining centre on Vancouver Island, is exploring the possibility of harnessing geothermal energy from the water in abandoned mine shafts. The ground beneath the ...

Does logging make BC forests safer from wildfire? Evidence from Mount Underwood and boreal forests suggests otherwise.

For centuries, corporations have been pilfering public assets for profit. This issue features people and communities standing up for their neighbours and the environment, one local battle at a time.

Western Canada’s award-winning environmental news magazine. The Watershed Sentinel has been the voice of the grassroots environmental movement in BC (and beyond) for over 25 years. When environmental ...

In the far north of Denendeh, Land of the Dene, stands the village of Radįlį Kóe, or Fort Good Hope. I was recently reminded by the late elder and former chief Frank T’seleie, in one of our last ...

On January 20 at Davos, Prime Minister Carney said that a country that cannot feed itself has few options. Just days later, Agriculture and Agri-food Canada announced that seven research facilities – ...

Currently, just about anywhere in Canada, breathing clean air has become a privilege, not a right. The IQ Air website, with its list of global most polluted major city rankings, has Vancouver, BC ...

In Canada’s northwest, glaciers play a pivotal role in climate resilience and planning, and they are melting at historic rates. In 2015, Garry Clarke (UBC) and colleagues projected that by 2100, the ...

Western Canada’s award-winning environmental news magazine. The Watershed Sentinel has been the voice of the grassroots environmental movement in BC (and beyond) for over 25 years. When environmental ...

The abandoned mining shaft cuts deeply into the embankment. Each spring, snowmelt seeps through fissures in the bedrock and drips into the excavation below, forming a pool of clear water more than ...