by Brian | Jun 9, 2023 | Environment
Right now, eastern North America sits under a blanket of choking smoke and an eerie orange haze more appropriate to the surface of Mars than the Great Lakes or Atlantic Seaboard. The cause: an unprecedented number of spring wildfires burning in the Canadian province...
by Brian | Mar 17, 2022 | Environment, ON Nature
The movement to designate rivers, lakes and other natural features legal “persons” with rights to self-preservation and legal redress is spreading through Indigenous communities in Canada. Will Ontario embrace the resolutions as a way of protecting its natural bounty?...
by Brian | Jan 31, 2021 | Conservation, Environment, Nature Conservancy of Canada
The Nature Conservancy of Canada’s Landmark Campaign has led to a 115,000-square-kilometre expansion of protected lands and waters, made possible by donations from 110,000 Canadians from all regions and walks of life COCKBURN ISLAND MAY BE the seventh-largest...
by Brian | May 15, 2019 | Canadian Geographic, Conservation, Environment
How the SPRUCE project is helping assess — and plan — what the future holds for the world’s boreal forests “THERE IS SIMPLY NOTHING else like this in the world.” Danielle Way, a plant biologist and associate professor at Western University in London, Ont., could be...
by Brian | Mar 20, 2019 | Canadian Geographic, Environment
Aili Keskitalo, president of the Sámi Parliament of Norway, speaking at Arctic Frontiers: “It’s true that Indigenous voices are not heard by decision makers. That can be fixed. By making us the decision makers.” The uncertainty and change that’s disrupting the...
by Brian | Nov 3, 2018 | Charting Change - IDRC/CanGeo, Environment
Cities in South Asia are sizzling, with low-income residents bearing the brunt of urban heat stress. But researchers are finding ways to help them adapt CLIMATE CHANGE MAY be upon us, yet if you say, “Heat wave,” a lot of people in developed Western countries still...