A place of cultural significance, Obsidian Butte at the Salton Sea once had waves washing the glittering outcropping of volcanic rock and natural glass. “This is a special place,” says Diné climate ...

Joyce Nelson has written in-depth on this subject as well as postal banking, “asset recycling,” the Canada Infrastructure Bank, Iceland’s resistance to austerity, and much more in Beyond Banksters: ...

The caldera of an extinct volcano has been a garden of medicines and foods for the Numu/Nuwu (Northern Paiute) and Newe (Western Shoshone) peoples and their non-human kin since time immemorial. They ...

A new force for climate action has taken root this past summer in the Comox Valley: the Youth Climate Corps British Columbia. As part of the broader YCCBC program, young people aged 17-30 work ...

The biggest seed company in the world, Bayer, claims it has an innovative solution to increase the daily vegetable intake of people in North America. The company says its mission is “Health for All, ...

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technology represents the fossil fuel industry’s last stand. Hawking expensive, speculative technology to suck CO2 out of the air and store it ...

When times turn dark, hope is as resolute as a salmon pushing upstream, fighting the odds with every stroke. This issue carries stories of purposeful action flowing from grit and love of the world, in ...

On a forestry road north of Kispiox, Gitxsan land protectors have set up a blockade to protest the Prince Rupert Gas Terminal pipeline (PRGT) on their laxyip (homelands). Their efforts reflect a ...

The salmon of the Salish Sea, long revered as keystone species and cultural icons, are facing unprecedented challenges due to climate change. As warming temperatures and erratic weather patterns ...

Black western thatching ants trudge along an ant highway leading to their swarming metre-high ant hill. These industrious little insects clean the forest by eating insect pests and dead animals; their ...

The City of Vancouver is cutting down thousands of trees in Vancouver’s iconic Stanley Park, ostensibly because of public safety reasons. Grassroots activists like Stanley Park Preservation Society ...

At the end of February 2021, BC Premier John Horgan reaffirmed the Province’s commitment to the completion of the Site C dam, the third and most contentious on the Peace River. Reading the reports, ...