What B.C. is — and isn’t — spending on the environment this election year
The 2024 B.C. budget has money for climate rebates and fighting wildfires, but lacks new...
Stories by Sarah Cox
New housing rules in B.C. trigger fears of ‘catastrophic’ loss of urban trees
B.C.’s NDP government says new legislation aims to address the housing crisis. Critics say the...
Can fake old-growth trees help this endangered animal?
Northern myotis bats weigh little more than a loonie and have long, dark ears. Females...
Inside the fight to save one of North America’s last deep-snow caribou herds
The ’boo shack, as locals in southeast British Columbia call it, could become a multi-million...
We followed an old-growth detective into the forest to fact-check B.C.’s suspicious claims about the age of trees
When conservationist Eddie Petryshen learned BC Timber Sales was auctioning off cutblocks in a globally...
‘From mountaintop to seafloor’: First Nation declares new 40,000-hectare protected area on B.C. coast
The Ḵwiḵwa̱sut'inux̱w Ha̱xwa’mis First Nation’s Chief Rick Johnson says the move to take over stewardship...
BC Hydro scrambles to tranquilize and remove bears hibernating in Site C dam flood zone before waters rise
BC Hydro is rushing to move bears out of the Site C dam flood zone...
‘The money that’s needed’: B.C. announces $300-million Indigenous conservation fund to protect old-growth forests
The new funding is welcomed by conservation groups that say the province has voiced support...
‘It’s never too late’: Canada taken to court for near-extinction of spotted owls
Federal government is in court for ‘precedent-setting’ case over lack of urgency to prevent extinction...
