PEREGRINE PULP

The West Vancouver Streamkeeper Society  was established in 2001 to restore and sustain local aquatic wildlife populations in 22...

Somehow I missed obelisks . Well, I suppose everyone missed it — or them . Discovered in human gut and oral bacteria, researchers...

We’ve never really known a lot about blue whales  ( Balaenoptera musculus ); yes, despite our long history near and on the sea, blue...

Maybe twenty years ago I was writing about the strangeness of finding myself labelled an ‘atheist’. To begin with, I argued that...

A team of researchers from Conservation International conducted a survey in the heart of Peru during the summer of 2022. Their rapid...

The Quinsam River, just outside Campbell River  on Vancouver Island, has just seen the highest pink salmon return in a decade . And this...

According to the IUCN Red List , more than 45,000 species on Earth are currently threatened with extinction. Particularly threatened are...

In 2020 a massive wildfire, known as the CZU Lightening Complex Fire , broke out in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Initially, several small...

You’ve heard about the devastations to the world’s reef ecosystems. Most notably, the Great Barrier Reef off Australia’s east coast saw...

I imagine that it is as true for you as it is me that almost everything I thought I understood from prior education turned out to be far...

The killer whale is the largest known species of dolphin. This exposes its common name as a rather silly one. ( Silly, just like so many...

You may have heard something about the Sea Star Wasting Disease (SSWD) epidemic that came to the Pacific coast of North America in 2013....

Twenty-nine months into this pandemic I'm still running into folks who think that being immunized means they're immune to infection and...

Food and nutrition fads come and go all the time. We often hear folks excited about learnings they've had around what to eat and what to...

In one of our final courses we were asked for an analysis and reflection of major course projects and themes. Here was mine: The Local...

David Abram and Robin Wall Kimmerer write of the tremendous power of language to shape perception and, therefore, our relationships and...

READING Kimmerer, R. (2017, June 12). Speaking of nature. Orion Magazine. https://orionmagazine.org/article/speaking-of-nature/ SUMMARY...

Our reading offers us that, "The ability to recover from mass extinctions is strong evidence for Gaia." This idea still strikes me like a...