Sarah Lawrynuik
@SarahLawrynuik Sarah is a freelance journalist based in Winnipeg and Alberta before that. She reports primarily on climate change and energy policy. Her work has appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, New Scientist, The Globe and Mail and on CBC News. Sarah has been stationed in cities across Canada, and has also reported from different corners of the globe — including Iraq, Hungary, France and Banff. She's currently studying to complete her Master's degree in global energy and climate policy at the University of London.
Stories by Sarah Lawrynuik
‘It was hard enough before’: Manitoba’s drought, worsened by climate crisis, is upending Prairie life
11 min. readFarmers wait, desperate for rain, in a prolonged season of extremely dry conditions across central...
Alberta wrestles with its most critical resource: water
After more than a decade of disasters brought on by water, the City of Calgary...
EPA finds selenium from B.C. mines contaminating fish in Montana
High concentrations of a potentially toxic element have been found in fish in the Kootenai...
Major gaps found in climate change education for students across Canada
Three provinces include materials from climate deniers, a new study has found
‘It’s kind of frightening’: students worry climate change education lacking in Alberta classrooms
Some teachers are reinventing the way students are educated about climate change, but it’s far...
Canada’s forests haven’t absorbed more carbon than they’ve released since 2001
Up until the last two decades, our forests had the power to sequester in excess...
Librarian rushes to archive Alberta’s climate change data before change in government
Government librarian Katie Cuyler says industry experts and academics have requested she begin ‘guerrilla archiving’...
Will Alberta’s renewable energy sector go the way of Ontario’s?
Renewables are now the lowest cost option for electricity in Alberta, but with Jason Kenney...
