Sarah Cox
@sarahkcox.bsky.social 
Personal site Sarah Cox is a reporter, editor and author based in Victoria, B.C., on the traditional territory of the Lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking peoples and formerly a reporter and editor at The Narwhal, where she started in 2016. Her investigations and feature writing have been recognized with awards from the Science Media Centre of Canada, Canadian Association of Journalists, Canadian Journalism Foundation, Digital Publishing Awards and World Press Freedom Prize, among others. She’s the author of two non-fiction books about environmental issues, Signs of Life: Field Notes from the Frontlines of Extinction and Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand Against Big Hydro. When she’s not at her desk, you can find Sarah exploring the mountains and ocean.
Stories by Sarah Cox
‘A map of the world as caribou see it’: Q&A with author David Moskowitz
9 min. readA new book by author and photographer David Moskowitz documents the spectacular inland temperate rainforest...
BC Hydro awarded $90 million in Site C dam contracts without asking for bids, documents reveal
Documents obtained by The Narwhal reveal numbered companies and BC Liberal donors are among 38...
BC Hydro in court to keep Site C expenditure details from public
Transparency in publicly-funded hydro project even more essential in wake of B.C. Legislature expense scandal,...
‘A sad day’: two more B.C. mountain caribou herds now locally extinct
The Kootenay populations, a fixture on the landscape for thousands of years, succumbed to industrial...
‘Drastic and scary’: Salmon declines prompt First Nation to take Canada to court over fish farms
In an unprecedented move, the Dzawada’enuzw nation is claiming in court that farming Atlantic salmon...
United Nations instructs Canada to suspend Site C dam construction over Indigenous rights violations
The world's foremost racial discrimination committee says Canada must work with Indigenous communities to find...
‘We have left it too late’: scientists say some B.C. endangered species can’t be saved
B.C.’s scattershot approach to helping at-risk species isn’t working, say scientists who propose a new...
Manitoba’s hydro mess points to Canada’s larger problem with megadams
As most of the Western world moves away from large-scale hydro projects, decommissioning dams across...
B.C. environmental assessment overhaul marred by deficiencies, scientists say
Nearly 180 scientists say impending legislation leaves the task of collecting evidence for major project...
