US Appeals Court ruling adds pressure on Canadian regulators, as poll shows 83% of Canadians want mandatory labelling of GM ...

Tsitika Mountain’s old-growth forests face auction as logging threatens marbled murrelets and Indigenous land rights on ...

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technology represents the fossil fuel industry’s last stand. Hawking expensive, speculative technology to suck CO2 out of the air and store it ...

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 ...

Before Gordon Campbell became Premier in 2001, British Columbians were concerned that he would privatize BC Hydro. The Liberals’ New Era platform was small consolation with its promise to “protect BC ...

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 ...

The City of Vancouver is cutting down thousands of trees in Vancouver’s iconic Stanley Park, ostensibly because of public safety reasons. Grassroots activists like Stanley Park Preservation Society ...

The biggest seed company in the world, Bayer, claims it has an innovative solution to increase the daily vegetable intake of people in North America. The company says its mission is “Health for All, ...

Fortunes have been made – and are being made – by resource companies that benefit from sweetheart deals that privatize vast tracts of land in BC. A select few, with the right government connections, ...

On a forestry road north of Kispiox, Gitxsan land protectors have set up a blockade to protest the Prince Rupert Gas Terminal pipeline (PRGT) on their laxyip (homelands). Their efforts reflect a ...

Environmental groups and First Nations are celebrating a “decisive” turning point in the battle to protect the ecology of Baynes Sound, 100 km north of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. It took years of ...

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 ...