Segments of PVC pipe washed up on shore in Denman Sound, B.C.
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Growing demand for large salt-water clams is leaving parts of the B.C. coast littered with plastic debris.
Whooping cranes, a critically endangered species, breed in one location, a wetland in Wood Buffalo National Park. Yet a federal-provincial review panel has approved an oilsands mine that could kill some of the birds.
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Are our brains wired to favour growth over environmentally rational decisions?
Students who were highly engaged in instrumental music were, on average, over one year ahead in their math, English and science skills.
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Researchers who looked at over 110,000 students found that learning an instrument in elementary school, and continuing music study into high school, significantly improves school achievement.
Protesters hoist a placard depicting Justin Trudeau in Vancouver on June 18, 2019.
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If the climate is in peril, why has the federal government approved a pipeline that will ship close to 600,000 barrels of oil per day from Alberta to British Columbia?
A wildfire burns on a logging road in central British Columbia in August 2018.
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Laws and policies that marginalize Indigenous people and communities make these same people vulnerable to disaster.
In the West Coast fisheries, a single licence may be exchanged for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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West Coast fisheries policy leaves the door open to speculative investors who see opportunity and can snap up fishing licences and quotas.
It’s difficult for farmers to pass on the additional costs from a carbon tax.
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The bulk of Canada’s agricultural production is in the Prairie provinces.
Wind power can create jobs for workers like these while cutting carbon pollution.
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There are ways to reduce the risk of protests like France’s yellow vests movement.
A female resident orca whale breaches while swimming in Puget Sound in January 2014.
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Noisy waters may be making it harder for southern resident killer whales to communicate with each other and find their food.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks about the federal government’s newly imposed carbon tax at an event in Toronto in October 2018.
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Canada’s top-down approach to designing its climate policy has failed. It needs to find ways to engage with individuals.
People march against pipelines in Smithers, B.C. in May 2014.
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The We'suwet'en First Nation is fighting the Coastal GasLink pipeline project, which would stretch nearly 700 kilometres across northern B.C. through their unceded land.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shakes hands with B.C. Premier John Horgan at a news conference where LNG Canada announced its decision to build an export facility in Kitimat, B.C.
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Burning natural gas produces less greenhouse gases than coal or oil. But the methane emissions associated with natural gas production and liquefaction threaten to erode its environmental benefits.
Black water cascaded down Cameron Falls in Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta after a 2018 wildfire denuded the landscape.
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Much of the country depends on water stored and filtered in forests. Fire-scarred watersheds highlight our need for a national wildfire strategy.
People hold artwork of various marine life and youth during a rally celebrating a recent federal court ruling against the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, in Vancouver, on Sept. 8, 2018.
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Contrary to what some have suggested, the uncertainty over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will be drawn out.
Naloxone counteracts the effects of an overdose.
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Naloxone programmes have sprung up in the UK and elsewhere, but drug death rates keep climbing.
A fisherman checks his fish corral nets in the Cau Hai lagoon, Vietnam.
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When it comes to small-scale fisheries, there is no one route to sustainability. Finding success stories can help map those paths.
Demonstrators protest the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion – and compare Justin Trudeau to Donald Trump – at a gathering in Vancouver on May 29, 2018. The controversy over the pipeline requires a national compromise.
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The Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion is fast becoming one of the most divisive issues in Canadian politics in years. Here’s how a compromise can be reached.
A aerial view of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain marine terminal, in Burnaby, B.C., is shown on Tues., May 29, 2018.
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Canada wants to move towards a green economy and meet its Paris Agreement targets, but it has also just taken ownership of a pipeline. How can the federal government deal with this paradox?
A grizzly bear looks up from its meal in British Columbia.
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Wildlife hunts are supposed to be grounded in sound science, but new research casts doubt on this assumption.
An Indigenous woman holds a sign as thousands of people attend a protest against the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in Burnaby, B.C., on March 10, 2018.
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Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is fighting British Columbia’s efforts to stop the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Here’s what she’s got wrong.