

RECORD RETURNS
The West Vancouver Streamkeeper Society was established in 2001 to restore and sustain local aquatic wildlife populations in 22...
Mar 31 min read


NEW IN PERU
A team of researchers from Conservation International conducted a survey in the heart of Peru during the summer of 2022. Their rapid...
Dec 23, 20245 min read


SALMON RUN
The Quinsam River, just outside Campbell River on Vancouver Island, has just seen the highest pink salmon return in a decade . And this...
Nov 3, 20241 min read


IT'S UP TO YOU
I’ve been writing for some time about the sudden and curious rejection of our age-old understanding that humans cause much, and in many...
Oct 19, 20243 min read


NOT SO FAST
According to the IUCN Red List , more than 45,000 species on Earth are currently threatened with extinction. Particularly threatened are...
Oct 16, 20243 min read


HEAT RASH
In recent weeks and months there has been a whole rash of articles about rising temperatures killing people. The reporting started with...
Sep 4, 20245 min read


COMPLEX FIRE
In 2020 a massive wildfire, known as the CZU Lightening Complex Fire , broke out in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Initially, several small...
Aug 14, 20244 min read


A CORAL PREDICT-AMENT
You’ve heard about the devastations to the world’s reef ecosystems. Most notably, the Great Barrier Reef off Australia’s east coast saw...
Aug 10, 20245 min read


DIAMOND'S IN THE ROUGH
Some folks really hate Jared Diamond. And those folks love hating Jared Diamond. As a good polymath, Diamond (with backgrounds in...
Jun 23, 202433 min read


A GOOD WAR?
Though I bought " A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency " the moment it came out, back in 2020, only now did I finish...
Sep 29, 20235 min read


FLAME ON
I always like to recount Suzuki's story about smog. How when shooting an episode of The Nature of Things he and his crew went and sat at...
Aug 19, 20234 min read


THAT’S WEATHER, NOT CLIMATE
This week, authorities have given us things like: “ July 2023 is set to be the hottest month ever recorded in human history .” “July...
Jul 29, 20237 min read


TIME TO LOOK AGAIN
Oliver Stone just put out a new film promoting nuclear energy, titled Nuclear Now: Time to look again. So, just as he asks, let’s...
Jun 12, 20239 min read


UNPRECEDENTED
As with every fire season in recent memory, we’re being told this one is unprecedented. Fires in Alberta and Nova Scotia are said to be...
May 29, 202311 min read


THE NEW HUMAN EPOCH
I love John Green’s now-finished podcast Anthropocene Reviewed. Love it. It really is everything I want in a podcast. I’ve even been...
Apr 3, 20235 min read

HOW ARE SEA STARS DOING?
You may have heard something about the Sea Star Wasting Disease (SSWD) epidemic that came to the Pacific coast of North America in 2013....
Jan 8, 20236 min read


POLAR BEAR SNOW JOB
The job would be monitoring a threatened polar bear population. Most of us new recruits were well-educated and comfortable out of doors...
Sep 21, 20225 min read


IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT
David Suzuki used to have this metaphor he'd use when talking about climate change. He likened the problem and our inaction to a car...
Jul 17, 20222 min read