BC says its new “working forest” plan will bring certainty to the logging industry, but it fails to address the cause of the ...

Eelgrass meadows capture carbon faster than terrestrial forests. But they are among the most threatened ecosystems on Earth.

Bill Jones writes about his journey from logger to Elder at Fairy Creek, when he finally remembered his grandfather's ...

Western Canada’s award-winning environmental news magazine. The Watershed Sentinel has been the voice of the grassroots environmental movement in BC (and beyond) for over 25 years. When environmental ...

After decades of protests, environmental violations, government fines, and civil claims, it’s the end of an era. Crofton’s embattled pulp mill is shutting down after 68 years, leaving 350 workers ...

Independent tests have found alarming levels of dioxins in ash collected near Metro Vancouver Regional District’s waste incinerator in Burnaby, raising fears of widespread contamination and long-term ...

A place of cultural significance, Obsidian Butte at the Salton Sea once had waves washing the glittering outcropping of volcanic rock and natural glass. “This is a special place,” says Diné climate ...

I live in Qualicum Beach, on Vancouver Island in beautiful British Columbia. Qualicum Beach has 26 kilometres of old asbestos cement (AC) water distribution pipes. Like many communities across Canada, ...

Old-growth forests in British Columbia hold a prized position in our collective imagination. Our relationships with these places define our regional identity. We often picture them as valleys of ...

As wildfires raged this summer, I turned to the documentary film BC Is Burning hoping to find ways to protect British Columbia’s wilderness from being destroyed. What I found instead was pro-logging ...

Production of the world’s first genetically engineered food animal, a GE salmon, ended in 2024 after twenty years of protest in Canada. In 2012, the introduction of the GE “Enviropig” was stopped ...

Back in May 2023, my small Métis community of around 300 people, East Prairie Métis Settlement, was devastated by a wildfire. Located in Treaty 8 territory, our community – also known as Pahkan-Wacis ...