Hakai Magazine: The Blob in the Northeast Pacific Ocean
For the past couple of years, researchers from California to Alaska have witnessed a warm-water phenomenon mess with the coastline’s marine food web. It’s like watching a horror B-flick unfold:...
View ArticleToronto Star: Russians blamed for attack on Syrian hospital
Russia is being blamed for an airstrike on a hospital in the northeastern Syrian city of Hama, continuing a pattern of attacks begun by the regime of Bashar Assad. While Russia maintains it is striking...
View ArticleBCBusiness Magazine: Why an economist picked Kamloops over Vancouver. Hint:...
An average morning for Joel Wood used to begin with a 20-minute drive from his Langley home. He would arrive at a park-and-ride in South Surrey, board a bus to a Canada Line station, then take a train...
View ArticleThe Tyee: Six ways climate change is getting personal in B.C.
Climate change is getting personal in British Columbia. Shifts in weather patterns in recent years are already changing the way we live in this province, whether you ranch, ski, love eating shellfish,...
View ArticleGlobe and Mail: Marine scientists to use navy techniques to study whales
When Randy Musseau stood in a conference room in Halifax this week to teach the navy’s basic course in the field of passive acoustics, he had an unusual group of pupils: marine scientists who are among...
View ArticleVICE: Vancouver’s Attempt to Sort Out the Pot Dispensary Bonanza is Causing...
A high school student walking to and from Stratford Hall, a private school on Vancouver’s Commercial Drive, walks past two pot dispensaries in the three blocks between the transit station and school....
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Hakai Magazine: The Race for Arctic Oil (infographic)
Oil exploration began in the Arctic almost a century ago, long before the words “climate” and “change” were paired with “human induced” and the ushering in of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene....
View ArticleDesmog: Low Expectations for Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall’s High Emissions
The summer of 2010 was a bad year for Saskatchewan. Record floods, winds, and hailstorms led to 175 communities declaring states of emergency, and costing the province over $100 million. “The Summer of...
View ArticleDesmog Canada: Should Taxpayers Be On The Hook For Cleaning Up Saskatchewan’s...
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall announced Monday he asked the federal government for $156 million to help fund oil and gas well cleanup efforts. In a press release he said the program “will stimulate...
View ArticleVancouver Magazine: She Saw You
A man carrying a blue Nalgene water bottle with a “No Pipelines” sticker strikes up a conversation with a woman in a health-food store on the Drive. It’s mid-December, 2014, and they chat about...
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