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...
by Brian | Dec 31, 2017 | Charting Change - IDRC/CanGeo, Environment, People
How a leading Brazilian researcher with deep ties to Canada is helping rewrite his country’s rules to protect one of its most precious resources WHEN THE LARGE DAM holding back iron ore tailings from the Samarco mine in the district of Bento Rodrigues in the...
