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.

Commentary

Money-laundering sideshow keeps media preoccupied while planet burns and Indigneous youths rebel

Carbon footprints aren't nearly as much fun to report on as hockey bags full of cash being dropped off at a local casino.

Straight Talk

A federal carbon tax infringes on provincial rights, Alberta court finds

Canada’s carbon tax is unconstitutional, according to the Court of Appeal of Alberta.

News Features

Vancouver-based Teck Resources withdraws application for Frontier Project in Alberta oilsands

According to Teck CEO Don Lindsay, "global capital markets are changing rapidly".

Commentary

David Suzuki: Beyond Climate ventures to the heart of a rapidly heating B.C.

B.C. is the proverbial canary in the coal mine for many related issues that will define our place in the world.

Theatre Reviews

Fun and visually pleasing BEEP passes along important sustainable-energy messages for kids

The Australian production being presented by Carousel Theatre for Young People features a title character who's a robot from outer space.

Commentary

Dave Demers: Hell strips, designed ecologies, and supercharged Nature—more tools to fight climate crisis

The vice-chair of the Vancouver park board proposes optimizing the biological output and overall connectivity of the city's marginal landscape.

Movie Notes

Video: Russell Crowe gets serious about the climate in message to Fire Fight Australia concertgoers

"We need to focus on big decisions. On core problems. And put the planet and people before politics," the actor said.

Commentary

The inconvenient truth for pipeline supporters: root causes of this revolution will not be televised

People are taking to the streets and most of them don't care what the mainstream media says about them.

Commentary

Rick Glumac: Using Burrard Thermal lands to tackle climate change

The NDP MLA for Port Moody–Coquitlam says he's very excited by the possibilities of the green economy—one that not only curbs our emissions, but one that encourages innovation and opportunities for sustainable economic development.

Commentary

David Suzuki: Alberta's "war room" is an attack on democracy

Those who fail to accept the climate crisis and the opportunities resolving it will create should get out of the way of those who know we humans are an ingenious species, capable of progress and innovation.

Commentary

Flurry of pro-pipeline Indigenous voices show up on Twitter feeds just as Royal Dutch Shell faces financial predicament

The international oil and gas giant is facing corporate challenges that have been brought on, in part, by its big bet on LNG.

Commentary

Welcome to the Canadian Rebellion of 2020, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier John Horgan

Three of the Wet'suwet'en women arrested today at the Unist'ot'en camp—Freda Huson, Brenda Michell, and Victoria Redsun—have been freed from custody.