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.

Straight Talk

Greta Thunberg says "nothing has happened" with emissions after more than a year of school strikes

"So of course, there is no victory because the only thing we want to see is real action," Thunberg said. "And real action has not been happening."

Commentary

David Suzuki: Holding a mirror to the real overabundant species

To bring imperilled wildlife back from the brink, governments must establish recovery targets.

Commentary

Andy Kang-I Chen: Taiwan should have a seat at the UN climate talks

China is blocking the participation of Taiwan, even though it has no control over the island nation's environmental policies.

Commentary

Why residents should cheer reelection of Sav Dhaliwal and Linda Buchanan to Metro Vancouver's top posts

They're both climate keeners—and that's something we need right now.

Commentary

Photos: Vancouver's Red Brigade helps put climate crisis at top of local newscasts

By embracing the "weird", a dedicated group of climate activists is getting its message thrust into the mainstream.

Straight Talk

Parsing tonight's Vancouver police news release about Extinction Rebellion's Black Friday protest

Here's a line-by-line translation of what was said and what was meant.

Commentary

Alex Boston: B.C. Ferries should focus on communities, carbon reduction, and clean tech, not cars and congestion

B.C. Ferries and the B.C. Government need to transform, rather than tinker with, a fundamentally flawed high-carbon, high-cost, high-congestion transportation system.

Commentary

Here's why John Horgan, Adrian Dix, Mike Farnworth, and Andrew Wilkinson remind me of climate-change deniers

This year, B.C. is once again on track for more than 1,000 deaths from illicit overdoses.

Movie Notes

Indigenous-led national climate awareness campaign to kick off with documentary screening in Vancouver

The screening will include several speakers and is the start of a national tour that will include 10 stops across Canada.

Movie Reviews

Todd Haynes plays it too safe with enviro-thriller Dark Waters

The story of DuPont's criminal actions deserves a more robust approach than this.

Commentary

David Suzuki: Failure to address climate crisis puts children at risk

UBC professor William Rees offers 11 strategies to deal with the crisis, which he argues must go beyond the current "green new deal".

Straight Talk

Vancouver's draft budget for 2020 shows the costs of doing nothing about climate change are beginning to add up

Climate change is going to cost every taxpayer more and more regardless of whether we keep the oil wells pumping.