Climate crisis

A group of nurses and doctors, all members of the group Doctors and Nurses for Planetary Health, rallied in front of Nelson City Hall in a demonstration to urge governments for action on climate change and environmental degradation. Photo: Bill Metcalfe

OUR PLANETARY HEALTH: Nurses have an ethical duty to advocate for climate justice

Why would nurses care about climate change? This is a question I…

  • Apr 28, 2023

 

Hunters from Pond Inlet, Nvt. — known as Mittimatalik in Inuktitut — have said they’re seeing fewer narwhal in areas where they were once abundant, making it harder to feed their families, and that the whales’ behaviour is changing. Narwhals swim between sea ice floating in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago on Saturday, July 22, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-David Goldman

Inuit, environmental groups call for stronger measures to reduce underwater noise

Research has found narwhal are sensitive to noise

 

Stuart Westie has been tracking his fitness and environmental impact each year since 2011, and his efforts add up. (Ruth Lloyd photo - Williams Lake Tribune)

B.C. senior tracks his shrinking environmental impact for over a decade

Stuart Westie started monitoring physical activity for health, then pivoted to environmental reasons

 

A solar farm is pictured in Wasserleben near Wernigerode at the ‘Harz’ mountains, Germany, Thursday, July 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

VIDEO: Climate questions: What are the solutions?

Hundreds of potential solutions being explored

A solar farm is pictured in Wasserleben near Wernigerode at the ‘Harz’ mountains, Germany, Thursday, July 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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‘Doomsday Glacier’ Could Raise Sea Levels By Several Feet, Scientists Say

“We should expect to see big changes over small timescales in the…

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The City of Nanaimo has opted into a voluntary reporting program that collects data on the energy use and carbon footprints of buildings within the city. (News Bulletin file photo)

Nanaimo joins reporting program for carbon footprint and energy use in civic buildings

Building Benchmark B.C. is Canada’s largest voluntary building energy reporting program

The City of Nanaimo has opted into a voluntary reporting program that collects data on the energy use and carbon footprints of buildings within the city. (News Bulletin file photo)
Jonathan Wilkinson makes an announcement in Calgary, Alta., Tuesday, July 20, 2021. Canada’s latest natural resources minister says in a country intent on helping to slow global warming without destroying the economy, his department can no longer be thought of mainly as the ministry for fossil fuels. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

New minister says natural resources must evolve to include renewables, biofuels

Wilkinson is less bullish on the future for most oil

Jonathan Wilkinson makes an announcement in Calgary, Alta., Tuesday, July 20, 2021. Canada’s latest natural resources minister says in a country intent on helping to slow global warming without destroying the economy, his department can no longer be thought of mainly as the ministry for fossil fuels. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
A new initiative called ‘Community Climate Circles’ will encourage people to be climate action leaders within their neighbourhoods or social circles. (News Bulletin file photo)

Group hopes to create ‘Community Climate Circles’ in Nanaimo

Nanaimo Climate Action Hub initiative starting this month

A new initiative called ‘Community Climate Circles’ will encourage people to be climate action leaders within their neighbourhoods or social circles. (News Bulletin file photo)
Ocean Legacy Foundation members conduct a shoreline pollution cleanup in Vancouver. (OLP)

It’s time to end ‘suffocating’ plastic pollution along B.C. shorelines, advocates urge

This Earth Day, Ocean Legacy Foundation is launching a free educational platform to educate the public about plastic pollution

Ocean Legacy Foundation members conduct a shoreline pollution cleanup in Vancouver. (OLP)