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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

The B.C. government has a pattern of issuing climate announcements when it approves fossil fuel expansion projects, say environmental groups.

A new scientific endeavour has taken to the sky using high-tech drones and satellite images to understand better the annual spring herring spawn vital to salmon and wildlife on the West Coast. 

A West Coast estuary resilience project involving a dozen First Nations partners, academics and government scientists studying climate impacts and solutions for vital tidal ecosystems is getting global attention.

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.

B.C.'s snowpack is 40 per cent below normal spurring action by watershed groups to buffer the rising risk of another extensive summer drought.