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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 4d

The Porcupine caribou herd travels more than 4,000 kilometres across the Arctic each year. But its migration is imperilled by climate change and oil and gas expansion. Scientists are rushing to count the animals amid the threat. @trinamoyles.bsky.social reports: thenarwhal.ca/counting-por...

The biologists racing to count Porcupine caribou | The Narwhal

Scientists in Yukon and Alaska are tracking the size of the Porcupine caribou herd. It’s urgent work: the animals face environmental and political threats

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Ainslie Cruickshank @ainsliecruickshank.bsky.social · 3d

B.C. coal giant penalized $3.6 million for treatment delays, 171 pollution breaches www.biv.com/news/environ... via @stefanlabbe.bsky.social

B.C. coal giant penalized millions for treatment delays, 171 pollution breaches

EVR Operations Limited — formally Teck Coal Limited — was penalized more than $3.6 million after failing to curb nitrate and selenium pollution

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 4d

Today, @nationalobserver.com is launching a tool to search municipal meeting transcripts across Canada. The tool has already helped us unearth a climate denial network targeting towns and cities, report on AI data centers, measure our impact and more.

Journalists and researchers, sign up for free!

Canada’s National Observer unveils a powerful tool for fighting disinformation

Civic Searchlight brings together municipal meeting transcripts from across Canada into a searchable database for the first time. It has already been used to fight disinformation, report on impact, di...

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 9d

The IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority, has established a new expert group that will help shape conservation priorities for a previously overlooked but vital group of organisms: microbes.

New conservation panel to focus on microorganisms crucial for human and planet health

The IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority, has established a new expert group that will help shape conservation priorities for a previously overlooked but vital group of organisms:…

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 10d

For the last month, Joffre Lakes Park has been closed to the public, as Lil'wat and N'Quatqua members reconnect with their traditional territory. Here's what one of B.C.'s busiest parks looks like at rest. By @sevawood.bsky.social with photos by Paige Taylor White. thenarwhal.ca/joffre-lakes...

What Joffre Lakes Park looks like at rest | The Narwhal

A month-long closure ends Oct. 3. Here’s what Instagram-famous Joffre Lakes Park, or Pipi7íyekw, looks like when it’s quiet and closed to the public

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 9d

The Doug Ford government’s draft regulations for establishing “special economic zones” under Bill 5 rely heavily on the opinion of ministers, and dismiss First Nations’ calls for language affirming Indigenous Rights.

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Ontario’s draft rules for special economic zones limit oversight | The Narwhal

The Doug Ford government’s draft regulations for special economic zones under Bill 5 empower ministers and dismiss First Nations’ request for oversight

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Molly Segal @mollyaudio.bsky.social · 10d

For almost 25 years, scientists have had solutions to keep migratory bats safe from wind turbines, to keep both the wind sector and bat species thriving. In my latest documentary for What On Earth, I explore how well that’s working 🌎 🦇
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Bats vs. wind energy: a gory tale of two climate solutions

Podcast Episode · What On Earth · 2025-10-01 · 30m

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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 12d

It was very special to work with six brilliant, thoughtful Indigenous writers — Michelle Good, Julian Brave NoiseCat, Eva Jewell, Janelle Lapointe, Anna McKenzie and Riley Yesno — on this series about truth and reconciliation, in print & online for @thewalrus.ca. thewalrus.ca/truth-and-re...

The Truth of Reconciliation | The Walrus

The TRC report, released in 2015, laid out ninety-four clear Calls to Action. Ten years later, Indigenous writers reflect on what has and hasn’t been achieved

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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 13d

please read this story today from @moiradonovan.bsky.social, with incredible photos by Darren Calabrese, which considers the physical history of the residential school system and survivors' efforts to ensure this history is never forgotten

The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 13d

The last federally run residential school closed in 1997, but traces of the system are everywhere on the land. How to commemorate the dark, painful history of these places? Across Canada, survivors are taking the lead: thenarwhal.ca/truth-reconc...

What should happen to residential school sites? | The Narwhal

Across Canada, Indigenous communities are deciding how to commemorate these residential school histories on the land

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Ainslie Cruickshank @ainsliecruickshank.bsky.social · 15d

This was such a fascinating read!!

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 15d

Canada was ‘instrumental’ in moving the High Seas Treaty forward, but hasn’t ratified the agreement. Until it does, the country with the longest coastline in the world will have limited opportunities to participate in treaty processes to protect international waters thenarwhal.ca/canada-high-...

Canada hasn’t ratified the High Seas Treaty it championed | The Narwhal

Canada has signed on to the High Seas Treaty but not yet ratified it. Its role in big ocean conservation decisions will be limited until it does

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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 17d

The BC government's decision to contribute $200 million for infrastructure needed to electrify Cedar LNG begs the question: can other energy-hungry projects expect similar hand outs? Ksi Lisims LNG? What about the KSM mine? Montney Basin O&G?

The energy ministry did not respond when I asked #bcpoli

The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 18d

Electrification is touted by many as the way to displace fossil fuels. But getting large infrastructure connected to the grid is costly — and complicated. Several new LNG projects in B.C. show just how much is on the line.
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Who will pay the costs to electrify B.C. LNG? | The Narwhal

Power-hungry industries are meant to pay for connection to the BC Hydro grid. In pursuit of cleaner LNG, B.C. is covering some of the tab

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Ainslie Cruickshank @ainsliecruickshank.bsky.social · 20d

"It had been a century since Texada Island had seen a grizzly bear. So when one swam 5 kilometres from the mainland over to the community off the B.C. coast, it created curiosity, panic and division..." Great radio doc by @mollyaudio.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

How a grizzly on a B.C. island sent a community into crisis

Podcast Episode · The Current · 2025-09-22 · 23m

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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 25d

Adoption of whale-safe fishing gear lags behind in race to save endangered animals

Rope-heavy fishing traps are a deadly hazard for North Atlantic right whales. There are safer options. Why haven’t they caught on more widely?

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Ainslie Cruickshank @ainsliecruickshank.bsky.social · 20d

"Among those species already listed as threatened by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, 43 per cent showed population declines, including the boreal caribou." via @ivansemeniuk.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/45e3099...

New data put Canadian wildlife population declines in focus

WWF says it’s a sign that policies protecting species at risk across the country or improving their chances of recovery are inadequate

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 26d

B.C. just approved one of its largest LNG projects yet.

Ksi Lisims LNG will ship 12M tonnes of gas a year overseas. Ministers say it will benefit the Nisg̱a’a Nation — but also admit it will worsen greenhouse gas emissions.

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Massive Ksi Lisims LNG approved in B.C. | The Narwhal

B.C. just gave the green light to Ksi Lisims, a project capable of producing almost as much as LNG Canada’s first phase

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 29d

A B.C. court has granted an injunction against a group of people blocking a logging road on southern Vancouver Island. The decision paves the way for the RCMP to move in, stirring memories of the Fairy Creek conflict 4 years ago thenarwhal.ca/walbran-vall... #bcpoli

Walbran Valley logging blockade escalates with injunction | The Narwhal

Four years after Fairy Creek, a new battle over B.C.’s old-growth forests looms in the Walbran Valley on Vancouver Island

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Ainslie Cruickshank @ainsliecruickshank.bsky.social · Sep 12

“households in 11 communities now depend on bottled water supplied by Ottawa because their taps have been contaminated by PFAS in firefighting foams” www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

‘Forever chemicals’ in tap water leave these communities in a toxic limbo

Residents are waiting for the government to say how long their drinking water has been contaminated, and what can be done to fix it

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · Sep 4

B.C.’s long-promised watershed security strategy is done but it’s not public, The Narwhal has learned. The province has sat on the strategy for more than a year, despite calls to release it. thenarwhal.ca/bc-watershed...

Why hasn’t B.C. released its watershed security strategy? | The Narwhal

B.C.’s watershed security strategy was approved more than a year ago but hasn’t been made public, despite repeated calls from partner First Nations

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · Sep 2

In the rush to put out wildfires, hundreds of millions of litres of fire retardant are dropped on forests across North America.
New research shows the effects that can have on aquatic ecosystems — especially when accidents happen, @drewanderson.bsky.social reports.
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Fire retardant helps put out wildfires. Is it safe? | The Narwhal

Fire retardant is dropped on forests to try to stop wildfires. New research out of Alberta shows the effects that can have on ecosystems

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Ainslie Cruickshank @ainsliecruickshank.bsky.social · Sep 2

“The mind-boggling wildfire — the energy it produced reached levels experts believe had never before been seen in Canada — has transformed the park into an open-air laboratory for Canadian researchers on the frontiers of evolving wildfire science.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...

In a Mammoth Wildfire’s Remains, Clues to Tame Future Blazes

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Trevor Crawley 🇨🇦 @trevorcrawley.bsky.social · Aug 28

On Monday, a judge ruled that the B.C. government must hand over Teck Coal Ltd.'s tax records to federal prosecutors.

Last year, Teck was charged with 5 counts of violating federal Fisheries Act regulations at tis Line Creek operations.
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Province must hand over mining company tax records in federal prosecution

Teck Coal Ltd. charged with allegedly depositing "deleterious substance" into Elk Valley waterways

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Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · Aug 26

For @nytimes.com Magazine, I visited the Palisades burn scar to write about fire and resilience www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/m...

In the Scars of L.A.’s Wildfires, Ecological Lessons Bloom

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · Aug 25

"If you really want to know what a piece is about, you shouldn’t find it spelled out in paragraph three. You should feel it by the end." Love this, @cstarnino.bsky.social!

You Can’t Hook Readers If You Don’t Trust Their Intelligence | The Walrus

I killed the nut graf and I don’t feel guilty

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Denise Balkissoon @balkissoon.bsky.social · Aug 20

Wrote a column thenarwhal.ca/seasonal-dep... and talked to CBC's Allie Jaynes www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb... about how wildfires, smoke, extreme heat and other effects of climate change are making summer a bummer, and why I'm trying to push past my sadness about it to tap into my anger, and love.

I have seasonal depression in the summer now | The Narwhal

Extreme heat, wildfires and pests — fuelled by climate change — threaten to make summer the worst season in Canada. It’s time to talk about it

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