Environment
Small B.C. First Nation fuels economic growth with clean energy
The Klahoose Nation is charged up over a new clean energy project that both protects…
B.C. shellfish growers experiencing watershed moment
Quadra Island oyster farmer Steve Pocock believes B.C.’s shellfish sector is facing a watershed moment. …
Low snowpack makes easy decisions for the man who controls Okanagan lake level
Okanagan Lake is below where Shaun Reimer would like it to be heading into the…
How far will B.C. go to fix oil and gas royalties? ‘The devil will be in the details’
A majority of British Columbians agree the province’s oil and gas royalty framework is in…
Car story: Where will Canada’s electric vehicle batteries go when they die?
What happens when an electric vehicle battery the size of a small dinner table reaches…
Hundreds of thousands of ‘problem’ caterpillars disappear from the North Okanagan
They appeared from nowhere in the hundreds of thousands a few years ago, but as…
International science expedition sets out to investigate secrets of Pacific salmon
A multinational scientific expedition is set to launch to solve the mystery of what happens…
Coastal communities ‘fed up’ with B.C. shellfish sector’s plastics problem
Coastal communities are tired of paying to clean up plastic and debris from the B.C.…
New report suggests Okanagan lakes could flood every 20 years if we do nothing
New mapping being done for the Okanagan Basin Water Board shows that the one-in-500-year flood…
Okanagan Lake is slowly getting saltier
While it’s got a really long ways to go before being as salty as an…
Wildfires mean Okanagan Lake could see algae blooms this summer
One of the more visible and immediate legacies of the White Rock Lake wildfire for…
This Kelowna mini-storage project will eat carbon with its walls made out of hemp
In an environmentally sensitive world it’s not unusual for developers to tout the fact that…
Fairy Creek camps undergo winter wind down, but hunt still on for missing old-growth activists
The Fairy Creek old-growth blockade is heading into winter hibernation mode but the search remains…
Alaskan commercial fishery ‘plundering’ threatened B.C. salmon
Commercial fish harvesters in southeast Alaska are netting significant amounts of threatened B.C. salmon even…
West coast carbon capture project aims to sink emissions in ocean floor and turn them to stone
A team of scientists believes it has a "rock-solid" way to combat the climate crisis…