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
Inuit researchers are on the lookout for migrating microplastics
4 min. readThere isn’t an ocean beach in the world that has been tested and not found...
Salmon are showing up in the Arctic in record numbers
Salmon used to be infrequent visitors to the Mackenzie River and communities of the Arctic,...
Is B.C.’s ‘wild west’ environmental monitoring about to come to an end?
Professional reliance report outlines to government how to restore public trust
B.C.’s big opportunity to fix under-regulated industry is here (and you’ve probably never heard of it)
For the last decade B.C.’s professional reliance system has outsourced the responsibility for environmental monitoring...
This is Giant Mine
This gold mine was once so dangerous that it killed a toddler who ate snow...
Paper? Plastic? Or Nada? Waste-free grocery store aims to put a lid on ocean plastic
Shop to your zero-waste heart’s content at Vancouver’s new packaging-free grocery store
Finding safe routes across melting Arctic ice with new tech and Inuit knowledge
SmartICE combines traditional Inuit knowledge and satellite technology
Plastics are showing up in Canada’s Arctic birds
Plastic is not only ending up in the Arctic, it's also being found throughout the...
We Spoke to Consultants Forced to Alter Their Work to Benefit Industry on How to Fix Canada’s Broken Environmental Laws
In 2015, a pipeline was designed to cut through a sensitive wetland in B.C. The...
