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The power of awe: How nature can transform our perspective

A large swarm of anchovies recently swam into Semiahmoo Bay near White Rock, British Columbia, staying for about a week. The abundance of tiny fish attracted an explosion of...
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U.S. actions near Venezuela portend an oily catastrophe

Canada’s government has been silent about the United States killing people on boats off...

Electrotech, not fossil fuels, will power the future

During a recent parliamentary committee meeting, Bloc Quebecois MP Patrick Bonin grilled Alberta Premier...

Costly geoengineering schemes could stall real solutions

Because the fossil fuel industry and its supporters have done everything they can to...

Art lights up our brains and ignites action

When we think of solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises, we often imagine...

Alberta coal fiasco unearths billionaire power grab

Former Premier Jason Kenney opened the province to coal mining in 2020 but backed down under public pressure in 2022, reinstating an eastern slopes moratorium that had been in place since 1976. Four coal companies are now suing the government for $13.8 billion.

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Fires scorching California, floods inundating Spain, heat killing and knocking monkeys from trees in Mexico, droughts scouring southern Africa, hurricanes ripping through the U.S....

Car culture driving us to disaster

The climate crisis is too big to be remedied by individual actions alone. It requires government policies and regulations and international cooperation in everything...

We can all take part in the great transformation

The odds are stacked against people standing up for the planet’s interconnected life-support systems. We don’t have the wealth of billionaires, oligarchs and industrialists...

Industry hijacks global climate and biodiversity summits

Under global consumer-capitalism, power and wealth are concentrated in the hands of oligarchs, billionaires and CEOs, supported by the politicians they fund. That was...

Plastics treaty failure shows need to curtail oil industry

During the recent British Columbia election campaign, Conservative Party Leader John Rustad vowed to bring back plastic straws, cutlery and bags. It’s an all-too-common...

War and climate change fuel a survival-threatening cycle

War is insane. Humans spend enormous amounts of money, consume massive resources, develop jaw-dropping technologies, destroy infrastructure and natural areas and kill millions of...

Science Matters: Plastic is polluting our bodies and brains!

Microplastics, soft plastics, burning plastics, plastics in the ocean, plastics in our brains, livers, kidneys, joints, reproductive organs, bones, blood… Plastic, a byproduct of...

People want climate action!

Most people understand that the climate crisis is real, and they want their leaders to do something about it. That means politicians who deny...

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