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
Bureaucrats prepared Site C dam press release a week before NDP reportedly made decision to proceed
4 min. readDocuments released under Freedom of Information legislation raise questions about timing of decision on controversial...
Canada leads G7 in oil and gas subsidies: new report
New research shows vast majority of Canadians support phaseout of government support for fossil fuel...
How a B.C. community’s water shortage threatens a provincial park
As unseasonably dry weather mantled B.C.’s southern coast last fall, Sunshine Coast residents were bedeviled...
‘The great Canadian bailout’: Canada’s pipeline purchase clashes with vow to end fossil fuel subsidies
Trudeau’s $4.5 billion offer for Trans Mountain pipeline falls on two-year anniversary of G7 pledge...
‘You take us off the land, and you destroy a piece of who we are’
New book Breaching the Peace details how the Site C dam has impacted Treaty 8...
Alberta makes conservation history with new protected areas in boreal forest
Total protected area is 1.3 million hectares — more than twice the size of Vancouver...
Keeping up with the Joneses a strong motivator for environmental behaviour: study
According to the experts, leveraging social norms is the key to altering behaviour rapidly
Feds surprise B.C. by abstaining on Site C dam legal challenge
First Nations lawsuit could mean an end to the hydro project
Time For a Fix: B.C. Looks at Overhaul of Reviews for Mines, Dams and Pipelines
As pipeline politics dominate headlines, British Columbia is poised to overhaul the process that guides...
