Jimmy Thomson
Jimmy Thomson is an environmental journalist and the managing editor of Canada's National Observer. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Walrus, The Globe and Mail and The Washington Post, and he has won grants and awards including from the National Magazine Awards, Canadian Association of Journalists, the National Newspaper Awards, the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting and IJNR, among others.
Stories by Jimmy Thomson
A Canadian company’s mine waste is threatening a pristine Alaskan valley
6 min. readJessica Plachata grew up spending her summers at Lake Coeur D’Alene in Idaho. She would...
Indigenous Guardians get $6.4 million to monitor traditional territories
From tracking wildlife populations to reporting industrial pollution, more than 40 Indigenous Guardian programs across...
A deepsea ‘oasis’ is slated to become Canada’s biggest protected area
An area four times the size of Vancouver Island is home to smoking vents, volcanic...
Meet the scientists embracing traditional Indigenous knowledge
From grizzly bears in areas undocumented by Western science to a possible new fast-running subtype...
Why we’ll be talking about the Trans Mountain pipeline for a long while yet
The embattled oilsands pipeline has become a proxy battle, pitting the urgency of the climate...
How whale blubber is fuelling this soapmaker’s Inuit pride
This is part five of Land Crafted: a five-part video series exploring entrepreneurship in northern...
An innovative Indigenous solution for smokeless smudging
This is part four of Land Crafted: a five-part video series exploring entrepreneurship in northern...
A Gwich’in artist elevates Indigenous jewelry
This is part three of Land Crafted: a five-part video series exploring entrepreneurship in northern...
A soap business bubbles up in midst of Yukon mining boom
This is part two of Land Crafted: a five-part video series exploring entrepreneurship in northern...
