Banking on batteries: Malahat Nation’s plans for energy self-determination could shore up B.C.’s grid
Battery storage could help solve the electricity grid’s biggest climate hurdles. For a small Indigenous...
Stories by Zoë Yunker
5 things to know about B.C.’s lucrative salvage logging industry
Despite the ecological risks, it’s cheaper and easier than ever to clear cut the last...
Logging after wildfires is a hot industry in B.C. Could it do more harm than good?
Forestry companies get a slew of profitable perks to harvest areas burned by B.C. wildfires....
How B.C.’s long-awaited forestry law updates leave gaps around protecting old-growth and Indigenous Rights
While environmental advocates are cautiously optimistic about proposed amendments to B.C.'s 2004 Forest Ranges and...
The Fairy Creek blockaders: inside the complicated fight for B.C.’s last ancient forests
For eight months a small group of protesters have successfully prevented logging company Teal-Jones from...
‘We should question our assumptions’: The Narwhal’s new assistant editor on boundary-pushing journalism
Josie Kao believes good journalism is rooted in authentic connections with readers. We couldn’t agree...
‘We have to face it’: filmmaker Jennifer Abbott on ecological grief
New film explores how grief can help us better understand ourselves and the climate crisis...
Q&A with Nicole Gonzalez Filos, The Narwhal’s new practicum student
From the environmental effects of the fashion industry to eco-anxiety and the youth climate action...
The clean energy bill that divided B.C.’s NDP and Greens: 11 things you need to know
Proposed legislation would end B.C.’s mandate to be electricity “self-sufficient,” and the Greens say that’s...
