Clik here to view.
The Best Thing I Could Do for Climate Change Was Go Home
S ometimes the best way to understand what you have is to lose it. Growing up in Whitehorse, I remember having the perfect childhood: bicycling in our backyard, catching frogs, hanging out with my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
[WATCH] Climate Talks: Protecting Biodiversity from the Impacts of Climate...
.hm-related-posts, .nav-links {display:none;} .site-content header.entry-header h3 {display:none;} .hitmag-post .entry-meta, .hitmag-post .entry-meta a, .hitmag-single .entry-meta, .hitmag-single...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Much Further Can Mining Go?
Once a tropical paradise on Earth, the world’s smallest island nation of Nauru has been transformed into an uninhabitable moonscape of craters and abandoned strip mines across most of its eight square...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Exclusive: Docs Blocked by BC NDP Raise Questions about First Nation...
In the spring of 2021, all eyes were on Fairy Creek, Vancouver Island. The valley, which contained one of the largest unbroken tracts of old-growth forest in the region, had become a political and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
20 Years of The Walrus: Environmental Writing
Over the past twenty years, The Walrus has been a steady bellwether of must-read writing. For our 20th anniversary, we’ve collected works that still surprise us, impress us, move us. Here are some of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Vaclav Smil Is Fed Up with Climate Activism
@media only screen and (max-width: 768px) { .img-two-across-column{ flex-direction: column; } .img-two-across-imgs{ width: auto !important; max-width: 100%!important; padding:0px!important; } } @media...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Skiing Is Becoming an Endangered Pastime
When my husband and I booked the ski trip, winter was still months away, and we weren’t thinking about the snow. Fall was still crisp like a fresh notebook. What would turn out to be the hottest year...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cities Are Good at Planting Trees. They’re Not So Good at Keeping Them
Vancouver is planning to raise its tree canopy coverage to 30 percent by 2050. Toronto has set a goal of 40 percent by 2050. In 2023, Montreal committed $76 million toward raising the canopy coverage...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Want to Fight Climate Change? Fix Housing
Two of the most acute crises facing Canadians are housing and climate change. These are usually treated as separate issues, to be raised in different conversations. That’s a mistake. Climate and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Seven Hard Truths about the Climate Crisis
In 2008, I wrote a book called Climate Wars, about the science and the geopolitics of climate change, and for a couple of years afterward, I had a sort of intermittent double vision. In my mind’s eye,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dreading Wildfire Season
When I moved to Whitehorse in 2009, I’d never imagined having to plot out a household wildfire evacuation plan. I don’t remember noticing a particularly smoky season until the summer of 2013, when...
View ArticleClik here to view.
As Temperatures Rise, So Does Pressure to Engineer the Ocean
I n early 2023, members of the Cornwall Marine Liaison Group gathered for a meeting about marine biodiversity featuring a presentation with the Canadian company Planetary Technologies. Over a video...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Far Right Will Decide the Environment’s Fate
On February 27, the European Union’s ninth parliament passed the Nature Restoration Law, committing member states to restoring at least 20 percent of “degraded” marine and terrestrial ecosystems by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Nature’s Not Judging Us”: On Being Out, Outside
Tucked in a hidden corner on Toronto’s south shore lies Cherry Beach. It’s known for its seclusion. To lay on its hot sands or test its warm waters, you have to escape down a long, bottlenecked street....
View ArticleClik here to view.
The World Is Moving Away from Fossil Fuels. Canada Is Holding On for Dear Life
June 2024—a flurry of metaphorical headlines out of Canada’s wealthiest province: “Alberta shuts down energy ‘War Room,’” “Calgary declares state of emergency due to water distribution facility...
View ArticleClik here to view.
With Jasper, a Once Beloved Town Becomes a Haunting Sight
We know the sight: neighbourhoods reduced to smoking foundations. Trees like crisp skeletons. Families packed into cars jamming the only available route out of town, fleeing at a crawl beneath...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yellowknife’s Wildfire Evacuation Was Tailored for the Privileged
.text-block-underneath { text-align: center; } .main_housing p > a { text-decoration: underline !important; } .th-hero-container.hm-post-style-6 { display: none !important; } .text-block-underneath {...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lake Superior’s Cruise Ship Problem
.text-block-underneath { text-align: center; } .main_housing p > a { text-decoration: underline !important; } .th-hero-container.hm-post-style-6 { display: none !important; } .text-block-underneath {...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Remembering Lytton, the Town Wiped Out by Wildfire
“In Canada, there was a town called Lytton. I say was because, on June 30, it burned to the ground.” —Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Glasgow, November 2021 British Columbia’s 2021 wildfire season...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How We Treat Bears in Cities Is Trash
In early May, two black bears roaming a rural residential subdivision in Whitehorse got into unlocked dumpsters and gorged on human trash. When the bears became aggressive, territorial conservation...
View Article