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Vancouver Island community wants government held liable for ship-breaking pollution
Deep Water Recovery is facing another warning and threat of fines for its controversial Vancouver Island ship breaking operation on the shores of Baynes Sound.
New catch-and-release guidelines will up salmon survival
The estimated mortality rate for released chinook can reach up to 40 per cent depending on the fishing tactics, gear, and injuries from over-handling, the study found.
Charting a path for boaters to clean up toxic ocean impacts
Boaters can use a innovative new online tool to choose eco-friendly products and clean up their act when it comes to washing toxic chemicals into waterways and oceans while maintaining their vessels.
Canada's concern about illegal shark finning by fishing fleets in the North Pacific surging
Overfishing, combined with finning — a cruel and wasteful practice where live sharks are caught during targeted fisheries or as bycatch, then have their fins sliced off before discarded overboard to die are pushing shark populations to the brink of extinction.
Global blueprint evolves to save minuscule marine creatures pivotal to life on earth
Plankton, the key ingredients of the primordial ocean soup that allowed all life to flourish, are central to a new UN manifesto highlighting the big role the microscopic creatures can play in tackling the triple threat of global warming, biodiversity loss, and pollution.
Audit shows just one in three Canadian fisheries is healthy
Climate change and over harvesting continue to put Canadian fisheries at risk along with Indigenous and coastal communities’ food security and economic wellbeing, a new report indicates.
Who gets first dibs on water? BC Greens say farmers
The BC Green Party wants the province deal differently with drought to ensure farmers and the environment have priority access to water to flourish as climate change advances.
Ocean mud is mighty when it comes to tackling climate change
It's not always the easiest sell, but the 'thick, gloopy mud' that is often found on ocean floors is what really needs protecting, according to Graham Epstein, a researcher with the Canada Blue Carbon project.
Endangered orca habitat sullied by Canadian cruise ship pollution
Cruise ships using dirty scrubber systems on Canada's West Coast spewed out nearly half of the 88 million tonnes of acidic wastewater and toxic metals generated and dumped into the ocean in 2022, new data sparked by a Stand.earth complaint shows.
Scientists scramble to unearth new flora and fauna during island BioBlitz
Dozens of scientific experts and scores of students clambered over rocks and under logs, squelched in mud and tidal pools and dove into frigid water in a race to discover, photograph, collect and document thousands of species during the recent Quadra Island BioBlitz.
Coastal cleanup groups worry federal funding cuts will sink efforts to tackle ocean plastics
Coastal cleanup groups are worried because the federal Ghost Gear Fund — which sunk nearly $60 million into 139 projects to alleviate the problem of ocean plastics — isn’t outlined in the recent federal budget.
West Coast Indigenous-led marine conservation area gets global spotlight
The Kitasoo Xai’xais First Nation's Gitdisdzu Lugyeks Marine Protected Area is getting international recognition but is being overlooked at home in Canada, falling victim to foot-dragging by the federal government.
B.C. farmers determined to get out in front of drought
The B.C. government is pairing up with agriculture groups in a bid to help ranchers and farmers prepare early as the province anticipates a second year of extreme drought as the climate crisis advances.
A parasite tied to bleaching in global coral reefs has infected B.C. marine life
University of British Columbia researchers have discovered a parasite associated with the bleaching of tropical coral reefs is prevalent in their cold-water cousins like sea anemones on the West Coast.
‘Lipstick on a pig’: Environmental groups take aim at Eby’s good news climate announcement
The B.C. government has a pattern of issuing climate announcements when it approves fossil fuel expansion projects, say environmental groups.