The new global high seas biodiversity treaty finally offers binding protections to marine life across huge swaths of the open ocean and helps stem climate change and biodiversity collapse.

The Yuquot Wave Energy Project is a collaborative effort to build a first-of-its-kind renewable energy microgrid powered by wave power at the heart of Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation’s territory on west Vancouver Island.

B.C.’s budget viewed through a climate lens got mixed reviews from the province’s environmental and conservation sector following its release Tuesday. 

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.

The new Mount Fisher land trust on Saturna Island protects critical habitat favoured by the tiny slender popcorn flower, which is on the cusp of extinction.

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.