Erica Gies
Erica Gies is the the author of Water Always Wins: Thriving in an age of drought and deluge (2022). An independent journalist, she covers science and the environment from Victoria, British Columbia, and San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, National Geographic, Nature, the New York Times and other publications. When she's not writing, Erica loves to hike and is a big fan of plants and critters.
Stories by Erica Gies
More dikes and bigger dams could be a multi-billion dollar mistake: here’s how B.C. could ‘build back better’
17 min. read
17 min. readA year after catastrophic floods in B.C.'s Fraser Valley, some are concerned the recovery is...
Great Bear Rainforest ‘gift to the world’ came at our expense, says Kwiakah First Nation
14 min. read
It was heralded as a conservation coup, yet one First Nation finds its land —...
Extinction deniers? Forestry industry undermines caribou conservation with climate denial tactics
7 min. read
Deny the problem, dispute the cause, claim the cost is too high: these tactics have...
