Sydney Lobe
Journalist | Victoria, BC |
English
About Sydney Lobe
Sydney Lobe is a Victoria-based journalist. She is editor-in-chief of the Martlet, the University of Victoria's independent newspaper, where she has written since 2021. She has previously written for The Tyee, and worked with the Climate Disaster Project as a senior interviewer.
She holds a BFA in writing with a minor in journalism from the University of Victoria.
Group of Alaska Tribes demands pause on B.C. mining project upstream of ‘ecological hotspot’
A group of Indigenous communities in Alaska are calling for a stop to a “reckless” mining plan across the Canadian border that they say will threaten their water, food supply and way of life.
Does logging a burned out forest hurt or help?
Experts express concern that salvage logging has no ecological benefit, contradicts B.C.’s promise to prioritize ecosystem health over timber, and the process should be reconsidered.
Fire probably not the cause of Chilcotin landslide: experts
Scientists are cautioning against a rush to pin the blame on wildfires alone — despite a climate-linked rise in both wildfires and fire-associated landslides in B.C.
New app is a climate time machine for your city
If global heating doesn't stop, 60 years from now Edmonton will be as hot and dry in the summer as Kansas is now, Regina will feel like a much warmer city in South Dakota, and Toronto will be as hot year-round as present-day northern Arkansas.
Environmental group files trailblazing greenwashing complaint against Lululemon in France
Just days before the Paris Olympics open, Lululemon Athletica Inc., is facing a first-of-its-kind formal complaint in France filed by a grassroots environmental organization in Canada and the United States.