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Site C construction will destroy irreplaceable wetlands
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Site C construction will destroy irreplaceable wetlands

BC Hydro is moving forward with plans to drain and log a rare wetland in the Peace River valley as part of dam construction this fall and winter.

Good News
Pennsylvania banking old-growth forest
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With another old-growth forest banked, Pennsylvania continues to lead

Part of state forest inducted into Old-Growth Forest Network.
Solutions
canada climate and environment politics

Federal election 2021: where parties stand on climate and environment issues

Canadians who watched the English-language leaders' debate learned little about the differences between the climate policies of Justin Trudeau's Liberals, Erin O'Toole's Conservatives, Jagmeet Singh's NDP and Annamie Paul's Greens. Here's what the federal election debate missed.

Politics
CleanBC: BC’s climate plan

Grand Chief Stewart Philip: We backed BC’s climate plan. Now we see it’s not enough

The time has come for a major reboot of the CleanBC goals.
Solutions
Vancouver Island's Fairy Creek old-growth blockade

How B.C.'s newest war in the woods shows the complex web of environmental politics

Vancouver Island's Fairy Creek blockade — which could soon become the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history — is representative of the complex way environmental issues could play out in the federal election. 
Resilience
Pac NW old-growth forests climate

Old-growth forests of Pacific Northwest could be key to climate action

Mongabay joins a noted forest ecologist in Olympic National Park to experience its magnificence and significance as a bastion of biodiversity and a carbon storehouse; protection of these vanishing U.S. and Canadian ecosystems is vital, say scientists.
Solutions
Clayoquot Sound’s war in the woods

How Clayoquot Sound’s war in the woods transformed Tofino

Almost 30 years after the ‘war in the woods’ stopped most industrial logging in Clayoquot Sound, the area has experienced a massive tourist boom. We visited the region to learn about solutions that emerged from the conflict and what challenges remain
ORIGINAL REPORTING
Truck being loaded with coal

Coal stockpiles strain US power sector as demand wanes

Bogotá faces water rationing

Bogotá faces water rationing

Oil pipelines stretching into the distance

Wisconsin oil spill fuels doubts over Enbridge’s pipeline safety

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People advocating against the US hydrogen hub build out

Hydrogen hubs test new federal environmental justice rules

Donald Trump

Donald Trump wins US presidency. What that could mean for the environment.

Trump-backed plan seeks to overturn Biden's climate policies

Trump-backed plan seeks to overturn Biden's climate policies

CLIMATE
wind turbines lined up in a green field

Op-ed: The real scam — rail against renewables, run away with factories

Palm trees bending in the wind

Cyclone devastates Mayotte