Ecology/Environment

25/10/25
Author: 
David Suzuki, with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Editor and Writer Ian Hanington
Growing economies, growing industry, growing cities, growing population, growing pollution… When does it stop?

Oct. 23, 2025

Growing economies, growing industry, growing cities, growing population, growing pollution… When does it stop?

Our current economic system is obsessed with constant growth; everything must keep expanding — except for the natural systems on which our health and survival depend. Those are shrinking, destroyed by our obsession with growth.

 

24/10/25
Author: 
Zak Vescera and Matt Simmons
Canada’s biggest corporations successfully lobbied the federal government to enable access to sensitive intelligence information, according to documents obtained through freedom of information legislation. Illustration: Shawn Parkinson / The Narwhal. David Vigneault photo: The Canadian Press / Justin Tang. François Poirier photo: The Canadian Press / Todd Korol

Oct. 23, 2025

Editor’s note: This story is a collaboration between the Investigative Journalism Foundation and The Narwhal.

A Canadian oil and gas firm successfully pressed Canada’s spy agency to start sharing government intelligence with the country’s wealthiest companies, something advocates say will protect critical infrastructure but that critics worry could infringe on civil rights. 

22/10/25
Author: 
Jordan Omstead
People take their dogs out for a quick break under billowing wildfire smoke off Highway 97 north of Buckinghorse River, BC on Friday, May 30, 2025. File photo by The Canadian Press/Nasuna Stuart-Ulin

Oct. 21, 2025

Two new studies are helping to shed light on the extent Canadians feel climate change is impacting their mental health.

A national study published today suggests about 2.3 per cent of people in Canada experience climate change anxiety at a level the authors considered "clinically relevant," causing meaningful distress and disruption in their lives.

22/10/25
Author: 
Umair Irfan
The wildfires in Los Angeles earlier this year were likely the costliest blazes on record. Photo by Getty Images/Vox

Oct. 22, 2025

This story was originally published by Vox and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration

The modern age of burning has been ignited by human hands.

22/10/25
Author: 
Barry Saxifrage
Illustration by: Barry Saxifrage

Oct. 22, 2025

British Columbians might be surprised to learn they are among the world’s most aggressive extractors of climate-destabilizing fossil fuels, per capita — and major projects that are already being built aim to make the province’s contribution much worse. 

Seven charts help tell the story of how we got here.

21/10/25
Author: 
Amanda Follett Hosgood
Corey Jocko, left, Shaylynn Sampson, centre, and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham, right, leave the Smithers courthouse on Friday after learning that they will not receive jail time for blocking access to the Coastal GasLink pipeline four years ago. Photo for The Tyee by Amanda Follett Hosgood.

Oct. 20, 2025

Judge rejects the prosecutors’ call for more jail time for protesters arrested at a Coastal GasLink pipeline work site.

About 100 people packed into the Smithers courthouse on Friday to show support for three Indigenous land defenders being sentenced for attempting to halt work on the Coastal GasLink pipeline in 2021 in defiance of a court-ordered injunction.

20/10/25
Author: 
Chris Hatch
It is absolutely gut-wrenching but it appears that tropical coral reefs are now beyond their 'tipping point.' Global heating would have to be reduced from today’s temperatures to 1.2C “as fast as possible” in order for coral reefs to survive 'at any meaningful scale,' the scientists say. Photo courtesy: Francesco Ungaro / Pexels

Oct. 20, 2025

There’s a single figure that encapsulates our climate predicament: the amount of carbon dioxide in the sky. It is surging into treacherous new territory and the size of the surge is even more disturbing: it soared by a record amount in 2024.

12/10/25
Author: 
Ben Parfitt
Northeastern BC is experiencing drought in rivers such as the Kiskatinaw. Despite this, data shows the fracking industry is drawing more and more water every year. Photo by Don Hoffman.

Oct. 9, 2025

A report today from Stand.earth shows the industry’s water use increased 50 per cent in 2024.

s drought in British Columbia’s Peace River region leads to massive wildfires and the City of Dawson Creek scrambles to find a new water source, a report released today concludes that water use by the region’s fracking industry shot up a record 50 per cent last year.

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