Rochelle Baker
Journalist | Quadra Island |
English
About Rochelle Baker
Rochelle Baker is the Quadra and Cortes Islands reporter for Canada's National Observer, thanks to a grant from the Local Journalism Initiative of the Government of Canada. Rochelle has worked as a newspaper reporter and photographer in BC's Lower Mainland for over 10 years.
A ‘sleeping giant’ awakens for COP26
The climate movement is shaking off the shackles of the pandemic, readying for disruption, and rallying to hold world leaders to account at the COP26 conference in Glasgow.
Canada’s marine protected areas aren’t as safe as you think
Many of Canada's marine protected areas are weakly protected and vulnerable to threats from extraction industries, trawling, or dumping despite Canada's ambitious conservation goals as it heads to COP26.
Is tidal energy the surge remote coastal communities need?
Tapping into the West Coast’s tidal waters is a highly predictable source of renewable energy that when channelled into a micro-grid might help shift remote communities off dirty diesel to generate electricity.
Author Ruth Ozeki explores loss, love and our insatiable relationship with things
Author Ruth Ozeki talks about her new work, The Book of Form and Emptiness, which explores grief, love, the nebulous boundaries between madness and creativity, and the complicated relationship humans have with things.
Preventing biodiversity collapse critical to COP26 climate goals, say world leaders
At the current UN summit aiming to pull biodiversity back from the brink, global leaders emphasized conserving nature is vital to achieving climate targets set at COP26.
Are chinook summer stocks really to blame for starving orcas?
A new study appears to debunk the prevailing hypothesis that endangered southern resident killer whales are in decline due to plummeting chinook salmon stocks in the Salish Sea during the summer months.
Star Trek captain chides B.C. premier over old-growth forests
B.C. Premier John Horgan — a self-proclaimed "Trekkie" — is being rebuked by Canadian actor William Shatner for not doing more to protect old-growth forests.
'We know it's possible': Severn Cullis-Suzuki sees roadmap for climate response in Canada
Public pressure and lessons learned from Indigenous peoples and the pandemic are keys to tackling the climate emergency, says Severn Cullis-Suzuki, the David Suzuki Foundation’s new executive director.
Mysterious type of orca is the big game hunter of the sea
Outer coast killer whales, a little-known type of orca, have a vocal dialect and culture distinct from their West Coast cousins in B.C. and specialize in hunting big game, such as gray whale calves, massive elephant seals, and sea lions in California ocean waters.
Canadian media needs to put a face to climate crisis, Sean Holman says
The deep impacts of the climate crisis means Canadian media needs to do a better job at illustrating the connections on seemingly disparate issues, and come up with better solutions to mitigate global warming, says journalist Sean Holman.