New GM tomato seeds in Canada raise concerns about labelling, contamination, and threats to seed saving and food sovereignty.

One summer, I became a forester, believing I could protect the forest I loved. I left understanding how naive that belief was ...

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 ...

I live in Qualicum Beach, on Vancouver Island in beautiful British Columbia. Qualicum Beach has 26 kilometres of old asbestos cement (AC) water distribution pipes. Like many communities across Canada, ...

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, ...

Seed is the foundation of our food system. Who controls seed, how new plant varieties are developed, who benefits from seed, and how decisions are made about seed all have big consequences. Canada’s ...

After decades of protests, environmental violations, government fines, and civil claims, it’s the end of an era. Crofton’s embattled pulp mill is shutting down after 68 years, leaving 350 workers ...

BC's timber barons could have found ways to make the industry sustainable, but instead they logged centuries of forests in a few decades. From endless "talk-and-log," to the public cost of watershed ...

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 ...

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 ...

From our deck the world reveals itself slowly detail by detail these summer mornings when morning becomes the ultimate painter. There’s a sublime elegance to the way things come together. Light chases ...

The caldera of an extinct volcano has been a garden of medicines and foods for the Numu/Nuwu (Northern Paiute) and Newe (Western Shoshone) peoples and their non-human kin since time immemorial. They ...