I first notice the aspen in the summer of 2019. Hundreds of tiny shoots, each one with its tip sheared off by the tractor cutting the field. The irony catches in my throat — it’s the beginning of fire ...

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 ...

Salmon people are celebrating success and renewing their commitment to restore historic salmon runs in the headwaters of one of the world’s greatest rivers, the Columbia. The Columbia River flows into ...

The last time the nuclear industry got its way in Ontario, the province’s erstwhile publicly-owned electrical utility, Ontario Hydro, spent over two decades building 20 nuclear reactors. It was a ...

A new force for climate action has taken root this past summer in the Comox Valley: the Youth Climate Corps British Columbia. As part of the broader YCCBC program, young people aged 17-30 work ...

Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie, Premier David Eby, and other politicians have recently made public statements about the Quw’utsun (Cowichan) Nation’s Aboriginal title case and the effect of the BC ...

When times turn dark, hope is as resolute as a salmon pushing upstream, fighting the odds with every stroke. This issue carries stories of purposeful action flowing from grit and love of the world, in ...

The steep flanks of Tsitika Mountain on northern Vancouver Island are scarred with clearcuts and slash piles almost to the boundary of the Tsitika Mountain and Robson Bight ecological reserves. When ...

In the Walbran Valley on Vancouver Island, protesters are blocking the road to thousand-year-old trees, holding a thin line between what remains and what is marked to fall. They are defying a court ...