The pipeline at the centre of the Wet’suwet’en conflict is also central to the province’s long-running effort to attract multinational corporations and build up a liquefied natural gas export empire — all with infusions of public money. Here’s what you need to know
Climate models project that if carbon emmisions continue as they are now, the vast majority of watersheds feeding Puget Sound will receive more rain than snow by 2080, causing increased flooding and other dramatic changes to the freshwater ecosystem.
The Gitxsan want the province to stop issuing permits for sport fishing, and warn that fishermen will be treated as trespassers within their traditional territory.
At 1,375 kilometres, the Fraser River is the longest in British Columbia. Its waters are home to countless species, including the prehistoric white sturgeon.
This paper studies the optimal design of the Pacific Salmon Treaty, which was signed by the U.S. and Canada in 1999 to share salmon on the Pacific coast.
Often, urban rivers are out of sight, out of mind. We may not even know they exist. Yet restoring our oft-submerged urban waterways is critical to building healthy communities.
It's estimated that over 400 million litres of acid mine drainage leach from the abandoned Tulsequah Chief into the beautiful Taku watershed every year.
The Klamath River is steelhead and salmon country. This river’s Chinook salmon and steelhead fisheries have supported commercial and recreational fishing economies for more than a century.
The rainshadow region, extending across the southeastern coast of Vancouver Island has been subject to rampant land conversion—by some estimates up to 50%.
Gov. Kate Brown's recent letter to Gov. Jay Inslee regarding dams on the Snake River shows her recognition of the responsibility that Oregon bears for helping support salmon - and the critically endangered orcas that feed on them.
A planned blast near the Big Bar landslide site has removed a large portion of bedrock. The rock slide in 2019 blocked the migration of sockeye and chinook salmon swimming upstream to spawn.
As the herring fishery opening approaches in the Strait of Georgia, wildlife advocates on Vancouver Island say their calls to close the province’s last remaining herring fishery have never been so loud.
Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq are poised to sign an agreement that finally defines how a 'moderate living fishery' will operate in the province. Membertou Chief Terry Paul, who heads the fisheries portfolio of Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq Chiefs, says a deal is close.
Each year, grey whales travel more than 16,000 kilometres along the Pacific Coast, from Mexico to Alaska and back. But every so often, many of them become stranded. Now a new study suggests these strandings could be linked to solar storms.
Seeing photos of chrome-bright steelhead all over social media really has me thinking. If the fishing is still this good after a month-long dry spell, how good would it have been if we had a few go…
Fisheries and Oceans Canada has forecasted a largely below-average season for salmon on the Stikine, Taku and Alsek Rivers, according to a notice posted earlier this month.
Yurok, Hoopa Valley, Karuk, Pit River and Miwok Tribal members, the Yurok Tribe, and supporters rallied in Redding to protest the Department of Water Resources’ Delta Tunnel proposal that threatens imperiled salmon and North State water quality.
Willapa Bay tributaries will close to all fishing Monday, March 2, due to projected low steelhead returns, the Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Friday.
In 2020, state and federal scientists predict there will be more fall-run Chinook salmon in the Sacramento River than there were in 2019, while the Klamath River is predicted to have less fall-run Chinook salmon in 2020 than there were in 2019.
A call to breach Eastern Washington’s Snake River dams was rejected in the initial draft of a court-ordered environmental study released Friday by the federal government.
“Our marine environment is being used as a cesspit,” said Sally Campbell, a marine biologist and local activist. “There’s no cleanup, and the profits are moved offshore.”
Until now, it had generally been assumed that all animals breathe oxygen. According to Israeli scientists, however, that isn't the case – they've announced that a tiny relative of jellyfish and corals manages to get by without.
Costing the Earth describes man's effect on the environment and how the environment reacts. It's made in Britain, but features great content that will interest conservationists everywhere.
