It’s the latest in a long line of efforts by the Harper Government to dismantle Canada’s environmental laws in order to facilitate energy development. In a memorandum of understanding between…
by Will Dubitsky and Jean Clark Two distinct pieces of federal legislation govern activities in and on our rivers, lakes and coastal waters: 1) The Canada Shipping Act, concerning the…
Ocean acidification affects shell growth for marine life (Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme) Research conducted at an ice camp high in the frozen North – part of the Catlin Arctic…
The only thing keeping profits afloat for a number of Norwegian salmon farms in Canada is the hundreds of millions of dollars they net from taxpayers when their fish die…
VANCOUVER – Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea says she will not lift the moratorium on aquaculture development in British Columbia’s Discovery Islands for the foreseeable future. The announcement came Wednesday,…
For threatened whale populations, sound is essential to every element of their lives – from eating and mating to family connection. In a new video on the subject, narrator and…
Alexandra Morton with yellow salmon on Mountain Bar, Fraser River (Morton facebook page – Oct. 5) You may have thought the Cohen report on collapsing Fraser River sockeye was a…
Following Japan’s devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami, fear spread about risks of leaked radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant – for the health of those living in or…
A dead morning sun star (photo courtesy of Jonathan Martin) VANCOUVER – Last month, a diver alerted Vancouver Aquarium staff that he had found a number of dead and decaying…
Fukushima’s crippled Reactor 4, which contains 1,500 precariously-perched, radioactive fuel rods Addiction experts say the first step toward recovery is recognizing you have a problem. In that sense, perhaps we’re…
Check out this amazing encounter with a large pod of orca on BC’s south coast. The home video, captured in Active Pass, off Galiano Island, has garnered well over 300,000…
Scientists find ‘missing heat’ in deep ocean waters By: Lauren McCauley | Common Dreams: The rate of global warming is speeding up, say scientists, despite the apparent stagnation in the…
