Eelgrass meadows capture carbon faster than terrestrial forests. But they are among the most threatened ecosystems on Earth.

BC says its new “working forest” plan will bring certainty to the logging industry, but it fails to address the cause of the ...

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

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

In December 2025, Domtar announced it would permanently close its pulp mill in Crofton, on Vancouver Island, ending nearly seven decades of operation and eliminating about 350 jobs. The company’s ...

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 ...

I live in Qualicum Beach, on Vancouver Island in beautiful British Columbia. Qualicum Beach has 26 kilometres of old asbestos cement (AC) water distribution pipes. Like many communities across Canada, ...

On Vancouver Island and surrounding islands in the Salish Sea, an overabundance of geese are damaging sensitive estuaries that took millennia to develop. Canada Geese love Carex lyngbyei, commonly ...

Back in 2018, the Watershed Sentinel ran an article warning that “unless Canadians speak out,” a huge amount of taxpayer dollars would be spent on small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs), which author D ...

Production of the world’s first genetically engineered food animal, a GE salmon, ended in 2024 after twenty years of protest in Canada. In 2012, the introduction of the GE “Enviropig” was stopped ...

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 – ...

Independent tests have found alarming levels of dioxins in ash collected near Metro Vancouver Regional District’s waste incinerator in Burnaby, raising fears of widespread contamination and long-term ...