As the delay in announcing the results of Zimbabwe’s presidential election stretched out endlessly, the political jokes proliferated across southern Africa.

Human beings are obsessed with size. But big isn’t everything. A tiny insect about the size of a grain of rice, the mountain pine beetle, has devastated British Columbia’s interior pine forests.

Caring Citizens of Richmond chair Ernie Mendoza responds to the Straight's April 24 story on a planned Turning Point Recovery Society facility for the City of Richmond.

Recessions in the world's most developed economies and an increasing demand for clean sources of energy could ease oil prices.

Years ago, I was surprised to learn that a grizzly bear is protected in the United States, but if it walks across the border into British Columbia, it can be killed for sport.

Frogs are disappearing. Many of us can remember drifting off to sleep to the sound of frogs, but unless we act now, it’s unlikely that our children and grandchildren will hear the same lullaby.

All praise to former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan. After meeting Zimbabwean opposition leaders in Kenya on Friday, he asked bluntly: “Where are the Africans?"

The latest energy news is a signal of a profound change in how all of us, in this country and around the world, are going to live.

As both advocates and opponents of private power generation continue to square off, it is important that an accurate frame of reference is provided through which the public can view this complex issue.

Most of our food, whether plant or animal, comes from farms. A notable exception is fish and seafood, much of which is caught from wild ocean stocks. That’s starting to change, though, as aquaculture plays an increasingly important role in the global food supply.

B.C. has Canada's greatest potential for generating electricity from geothermal sources. But it's almost entirely unrealized.

Gwynne Dyer writes that if he were the Chinese bureaucrat responsible for guarding the sacred Olympic flame, the place he'd worry about most is Australia.

Sikh separatism that generated a media frenzy in Canada following last year’s controversial Vaisakhi parade in Surrey was the fallout from a massacre 30 years ago. It’s worth revisiting that incident, which resulted in the deaths of 13 Sikhs in Punjab on Vaisakhi Day in 1978, to understand the roots of some of the violence that has plagued the community since then, including the bombing of Air India Flight 182 in 1985.

By David Suzuki with Faisal Moola

The Federal government has foiled an attempt by Adopt-a-fry.org to move wild fish around B.C. fish farms, which have become hotbeds for sea lice.