This ongoing archive of Georgia Straight articles includes issues such as climate, sustainability, environment and ecosystems, pollution and waste, ocean health and sealife, wildlife, endangered species and extinction, wildfires, and more.

LifeStyle Features

Environment Canada issues special weather statement about heat wave in Metro Vancouver

Jun 21

This is a good time to cool down with an ice-cream cone.

Straight Talk

Neil Young, Greta Thunberg, Bryan Adams, Margaret Atwood plead with Premier Horgan to halt old-growth logging

Jun 18

The letter's signatories were recruited by a Vancouver-based environmental nonprofit.

Commentary

David Suzuki: For climate’s sake, save the peat!

Jun 16

The more we learn, the more we come to the inescapable conclusion that everything is interconnected, that even seemingly minor changes to ecosystems can have wide-ranging consequences.

Straight Talk

B.C.'s highest court rules that mines inspector does not need to consider impact of climate change

Jun 16

A Victoria asphalt company has won an important victory in its efforts to proceed with an industrial project.

Arts Notes

Boy Holding a Shark sculpture faces opposition before installment at Vancouver's False Creek

Jun 15

The proposed temporary sculpture serves as a warning about how human beings are destroying the oceans.

Commentary

David Suzuki: Fossil fuel industry faces an overdue reckoning

Jun 9

The fossil fuel era is ending. It’s time to find ways to shift fairly and equitably to better ways of living and powering our societies.

Commentary

Eric Doherty: International Energy Agency report should spell end of urban highway and airport expansion

Jun 5

Policies discouraging car use in cities should lead to lower rates of car ownership.

Straight Talk

RCMP breaches Fairy Creek blockade; Indigenous land defender calls Premier John Horgan a "punk"

Jun 4

A group of environmental activists has claimed that 2,000-year-old yellow cedar trees are at "immediate risk" on southern Vancouver Island.

Finance

New cryptocurrency AquaGoat adopts climate resilient corals and a dolphin as it builds blue credentials

Jun 3

AquaGoat describes itself as the first ocean-centred digital currency.

Commentary

Erdene Batzorig: Vancouver athleisure brand lululemon has a climate change problem

Jun 3

Your favorite pair of yoga pants were probably made with the help of coal-fired power.

Commentary

David Suzuki: Sun rises on renewable energy and storage

Jun 2

There’s no room for new coal, oil, or gas development in a rapidly heating world. It’s time to clean up our act.

Commentary

NDP's environmental street cred fades as Sierra Club B.C. disputes government claim about giant spruce tree

May 29

Horgan's majority has some things in common with the last B.C. NDP majority government, which didn't have a pretty ending.