Island Insider

The public online mapping system and database, employs satellite imagery, remote sensing technology, and government data to detect and alert users to logging and road-building in the most at-risk old- growth forests in the province, said project lead Angeline Robertson, a senior investigative researcher with Stand.earth.

Klith-waa-taa, Dr. Barney Williams, has been awarded the 2023 Lieutenant Governor’s BC Reconciliation Award for his work and lifelong commitment to using traditional practices in healing the trauma experienced by residential school survivors.

The Warrior program offers young people in Nuu-chah-nulth territory a safe space to build bonds, confidence and experience with the support of of elders and mentors who share their knowledge.

LNG’s free ride when it comes to methane shipping emissions is coming to a halt now that the International Maritime Organization has stricter targets that account for marine fuels' well-to-wake greenhouse gas emissions.

Regenerative farming methods in use on the small, B.C. island farm for decades to build soil, capture nutrients, and promote biodiversity are reaping rewards as the climate crisis advances.

The B.C. government has announced changes to improve transparency around logging operations, but critics have more questions than answers. 

Canada and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) need to ban scrubber systems churning out most of the cruise industry's contaminated wastewater and allowing the continued use of dirty heavy oil fuel, despite a huge emissions footprint, say critics.

“The economic disruption and costs associated with already existing climate change is something that we don't often think about enough," says Marc Lee, senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

More than 80 per cent of Canadians surveyed believe it’s important for Canada to invest in zero-emission ports, vessels, and shipping routes, a new survey finds.

The tour of carver Stan C. Hunt's monument to residential school children provides a touchstone for understanding and grief on National Indigenous People's Day.

Canada urgently needs to chart a course of action to drastically reduce the shipping sector’s surging greenhouse gas emissions, says an International coalition working to decarbonize the maritime industry. 

B.C. is examining long-standing roadblocks to intercity transportation for rural communities on Vancouver Island and other underserved areas in the province.

Rocks the size of coffee mugs continue to drop hundreds of feet down steep bluffs onto Highway 4, an important transportation route closed by wildfire activity on Vancouver Island a week ago.

Vancouver Island communities isolated by a stubborn wildfire and ongoing Highway 4 closure urge tourists not to visit and avoid the risky detour route to ease the load on the fragile supply chain.

B.C. has created a new plan to tackle the twin spectres of ocean acidification and dwindling oxygen levels seen as leading climate threats for coastal communities, marine ecosystems and industry along the West Coast.