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.

A massive restoration project is getting underway this summer in a bid to save vital wildlife habitat in the Cowichan Estuary from drowning and disappearing as climate change spurs sea level rise.

A new tidal energy pilot project to reduce dependence on diesel in B.C.’s remote coastal communities is set to launch after getting $2 million in provincial funding.

A new project hopes to train a Vancouver Island First Nations “strike team” to save and salvage cultural and sacred artifacts from the growing threat of fires and floods as the climate crisis advances.

Polystyrene foam is a plastic blight for beaches and waterways and is harmful to birds, fish and other marine creatures, says B.C. MP Rachel Blaney, who has tabled a motion for the federal government to ban its use in floating structures, like docks and buoys.

Premier David Eby needs to make sure rural and First Nations communities get affordable intercity transit, so they aren't left stranded in the drive to establish B.C.'s clean transportation network, a growing climate coalition says.

Accelerating climate impacts on the ocean outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have localized and serious ripple effects along the B.C. coast, particularly in the Salish Sea.

Quadra Island's Climate Action Team is launching a food recovery program to tackle climate change and food insecurity in the small coastal community.

The Pender Harbour Ocean Discovery Station is set to be a hot spot for aquatic research and monitoring climate change impacts on marine ecosystems after getting a $1.2-million donation from the Wilson 5 Foundation.

BC Ferries just got $500 million in funding to keep fares low and help electrify its fleet, but critics say the provincial announcement was heavy on climate rhetoric and light on concrete details or commitment.

Last-ditch negotiations are underway on a transformative UN high seas treaty — the first to protect, rather than exploit, the ocean and to stem the twin spectres of climate change and biodiversity collapse.

Oil and gas activity, mining, dumping and destructive bottom trawling fishing won’t be allowed in new MPAs but issues of shipping wastewater and noise are not addressed in the protections. 

Canada has joined ranks with nearly a dozen nations calling for a moratorium or pause on deep-sea mining in both domestic and international waters to protect ocean ecosystems.

The proposed Tang.ɢwan — ḥačxwiqak — Tsig̱is Marine Protected Area covers a 133,000-square-kilometre swath of open ocean on Canada's West Coast and harbours a unique concentration of hydrothermal vents, underwater sea mountains and rich deep-sea biodiversity hot spots found nowhere else in the world.

Fifteen First Nations are assuming stewardship of the Great Bear Sea marine protected area network that covers two-thirds of Canada’s West Coast.