While some kelp canopies in B.C.'s southern waters are withering with climate change, certain pockets are proving resilient and offer insights for the conservation and restoration of these critical hot spots of marine life.
Watershed experts worried that critically low snowpacks signal more severe droughts this summer want the province to act early to deal with water shortages before they reach crisis levels.
Canada can turn the tide and deliver its long-promised underwater noise strategy with fast and effective regulations that will cut the clamour of human activity polluting oceans and harming marine life everywhere, say conservation groups.
Coastal First Nations are stressing urgency and more investment to offset the anticipated surge in oil tanker and shipping traffic in the Salish Sea once the Trans Mountain pipeline and Roberts Bank terminal expansion projects come online.
Zooplankton vital for fish on B.C.’s southern coast are lining their guts with synthetic microfibres shed and flushed out to sea when we wash our clothes, causing big ripple effects for marine life.
Attention and controversy is on the rise about climate solutions that aim to scale up and speed the ocean’s natural biological or chemical processes to capture and store C02.
Each autumn, Courtenay Fish and Game volunteers go to great lengths to capture live spawning salmon from an isolated stretch of the Trent River to raise at their new Comox Lake hatchery.
Canada's East Coast regulations are geared to limit corporate control and protect coastal fishing communities while West Coast harvesters flounder under a different set of rules.