Ecology/Environment

24/03/25
Author: 
Tom Perkins in Detroit
Lake Michigan in Chicago. The vital lakes provide drinking water to more than 40 million people in the US and Canada. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Mar. 18, 2025

Advocates warn firings and funding freezes already risk poisoning drinking water and decimating fish population

Donald Trump’s and Elon Musk’s attacks on federal agencies and funding freezes will be “cataclysmic” for the environment of the sensitive Great Lakes region if not reversed, industry and environmental advocates in the region warn.

24/03/25
Author: 
Brandi Morin
The mountains around Las Pampas. | Photo by Ian Willms

Feb. 27, 2025

Canada has finalized negotiations on a free trade deal with Ecuador, but claimed human rights protections ring hollow in light of alleged state repression

Photos by Ian Willms

17/03/25
Author: 
Zoë Yunker
BC’s budget documents show the province anticipates a 60 per cent revenue jump from gas, thanks to rising prices and an 11 per cent increase in fracking due to demand from LNG Canada’s anticipated start this year. Photo via LNG Canada.

Mar. 11, 2025

As resource extraction intensifies, environmental assessments have been cut, says advocate.

16/03/25
Author: 
Taylor C. Noakes
Ads delivered in St. Catharines and Thorold, Ont. on Meta platforms. Images compiled by Rory White.

Mar. 7, 2025

In recent years Canadians have been regularly bombarded by a very specific kind of advertisement that claims to represent grassroots interests and opposes any government effort to enforce environmental regulations. They’re the creations of third party advertisers, often little more than an arm's length away from conservative parties and the fossil fuel sector, and are perhaps the single biggest direct source of environmental disinformation in Canada.

16/03/25
Author: 
Brett Wilkins
Demonstrators rally against the Trump administration policies that are endangering clean air and water on February 15, 2025 in Detroit. (Photo: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Mar. 12, 2025

"The Trump administration is trying to roll back decades of critical health and safety regulations that have saved millions of lives and are all that's standing between us and runaway climate change," said one campaigner.

While U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin boasted Wednesday of canceling billions of dollars worth of green grants, considering the rollback of dozens of regulations, and shutting down every environmental justice office nationwide, critics warned the moves will have dire consequences for people and the planet.

16/03/25
Author: 
Werner Antweiler, Simon Donner, Kathryn Harrison
Cooling towers used to dissipate heat generated when natural gas is converted into liquefied natural gas are seen under construction at the LNG Canada export terminal in Kitimat. Photo by DARRYL DYCK /THE CANADIAN PRESS

Mar. 13, 2025

The looming threat of a trade war with the U.S. has focused attention on lessening Canada’s historic dependence on trade with the our neighbours to the south.

10/03/25
Author: 
Damian Carrington
If Saudi Aramco was a country, it would be the fourth biggest polluter in the world after China, the US and India. Photograph: Alamy

Mar. 5, 2025

Researchers say data strengthens case for holding firms to account for their contribution to climate crisis

Half of the world’s climate-heating carbon emissions come from the fossil fuels produced by just 36 companies, analysis has revealed.

The researchers said the 2023 data strengthened the case for holding fossil fuel companies to account for their contribution to global heating. Previous versions of the annual report have been used in legal cases against companies and investors.

08/03/25
Author: 
Matt Simmons (Local Journalism Initiative Reporter) and Kate Schneider
BC Energy Regulator inspectors frequently noted evidence of wildlife accessing contaminated or potentially contaminated oil and gas infrastructure, according to documents released through freedom of information legislation. Illustration: Nora Kelly / The Narwhal

Mar. 5, 2025

BC Energy Regulator inspectors gave a passing grade to an oil and gas site they said had a ‘SERIOUS deficiency’ and another that had potentially been ‘gurgling’ since 2012. Here are some of their notes

This investigation is a collaboration between The Narwhal and Investigative Journalism Foundation.

“Serious deficiency.” “Very stinky.” “Leakage.” “A hazard.”

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