Dec 23, 20245 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...
Nov 3, 20241 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...
Oct 19, 20243 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 15, 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...
Sep 4, 20245 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...
Aug 13, 20244 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 10, 20245 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...
Jun 22, 202433 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...
Sep 28, 20235 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...
Aug 18, 20234 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...
