A proposed data centre in Nanaimo raises concerns about water use, power demand, and climate impacts as BC expands digital ...

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technology represents the fossil fuel industry’s last stand. Hawking expensive, speculative technology to suck CO2 out of the air and store it ...

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 ...

A place of cultural significance, Obsidian Butte at the Salton Sea once had waves washing the glittering outcropping of volcanic rock and natural glass. “This is a special place,” says Diné climate ...

Joyce Nelson has written in-depth on this subject as well as postal banking, “asset recycling,” the Canada Infrastructure Bank, Iceland’s resistance to austerity, and much more in Beyond Banksters: ...

The steep flanks of Tsitika Mountain on northern Vancouver Island are scarred with clearcuts and slash piles almost to the boundary of the Tsitika Mountain and Robson Bight ecological reserves. When ...

The City of Vancouver is cutting down thousands of trees in Vancouver’s iconic Stanley Park, ostensibly because of public safety reasons. Grassroots activists like Stanley Park Preservation Society ...

Environmental groups and First Nations are celebrating a “decisive” turning point in the battle to protect the ecology of Baynes Sound, 100 km north of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. It took years of ...

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 ...

The biggest seed company in the world, Bayer, claims it has an innovative solution to increase the daily vegetable intake of people in North America. The company says its mission is “Health for All, ...

On a forestry road north of Kispiox, Gitxsan land protectors have set up a blockade to protest the Prince Rupert Gas Terminal pipeline (PRGT) on their laxyip (homelands). Their efforts reflect a ...

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 ...