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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.

State Of The Animal

By Rochelle Baker | News, Island Insider | October 13th 2021

People hold signs and banners as they participate in a climate march and demonstration in Brussels, on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021. Photo by The Associated Press/Geert Vanden Wijngaert

Brussels weekend climate march draws thousands

Dressed as endangered fish or tigers or wearing toy polar bears on their heads, demonstrators marched through Brussels on Sunday, October 10, 2021, to push world leaders to take bolder action to fight climate change at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow starting this month.

RACE AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE

By Associated Press | News | October 12th 2021

In this Sunday, July 5, 2020, file photo, an offshore drilling rig is seen in the waters off Cyprus' coastal city of Limassol as a boat passes with a skier. File photo by The Associated Press/Petros Karadjias

Scientists says future of Middle East depends on speedy transition to renewables

A climate change conference will underscore to policy-makers in the Middle East and the east Mediterranean that the switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources is needed urgently.

RACE AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE

By Menelaos Hadjicostis | News, Politics | October 12th 2021

A man passes by a floral decoration celebrating the U.N. Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) in a park in Kunming, the host city, in southwestern China's Yunnan province on Oct. 2, 2021. File photo by The Associated Press/Chinatopix

China kicks in $230 million for biodiversity fund at UN meeting in Kunming

President Xi Jinping, speaking by video to a U.N. conference said China would put in 1.5 billion yuan and called on other countries to contribute to the Kunming Biodiversity Fund.

RACE AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE

By Ken Moritsugu | News, Politics | October 12th 2021

An empty classroom is pictured at Eric Hamber Secondary School in Vancouver, on Monday, March 23, 2020. File photo by The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward

Canadian parents support mask mandates in schools

The majority of respondents in a newly released Canada-wide survey say they are concerned about the spread of COVID-19 in schools and want children and staff to wear masks.

Coronavirus in Canada

By Kelly Geraldine Malone | News | October 12th 2021

Surfers and swimmers return to the Huntington Beach pier waves since the crude oil spill at the California beach, on Monday, Oct. 11, 2021. Photo by The Associated Press/Amy Taxin

Legal fight over Huntington Beach oil spill in California likely to last years

It took little more than 48 hours from the moment a major oil spill was discovered off Southern California until the first lawsuit was filed against the Houston company that owns and operates the ruptured pipeline.

RACE AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE

By Brian Melley | News, US News | October 12th 2021

TIME Magazine's person of the year 2019 Greta Thunberg holds a climate change rally at the Greek Amphitheater in Denver, Colorado on October 11, 2019. Photo:Flickr/Anthony Quintano (CC BY 2.0)

Greta Thunberg says door is 'open' if Biden wants to meet at UN climate summit

The young Swedish climate activist does not expect much from either the U.S. president or COP26, the make-or-break summit that runs Oct. 31 to Nov. 12.

COP26: UNITING THE WORLD TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE

By Mark Hertsgaard | News | October 12th 2021

holding oil sands, working on a SAGD (Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage) winter drill program. Photo supplied by Luisa Da Silva

Want to know what a job looks like for a fossil fuel worker in the net-zero economy?

Want to know what a job looks like for a fossil fuel worker in the net-zero economy? Just ask Luisa Da Silva. As executive director of Iron & Earth, she makes the rubber hit the road.

Canada's Clean Economy

By Patricia Lane | News | October 12th 2021

After the Pandora Papers exposed the offshore holdings of 35 current and former country leaders, MPs and Canadians for Tax Fairness want Canada to take action. KMR Photography / Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Pandora Papers’ bombshells have MPs calling for action

MPs and the non-profit Canadians for Tax Fairness are calling for the Canadian government to take action after the Pandora Papers investigation found hundreds of world leaders and public officials have used offshore tax havens to hide enormous fortunes.

By Natasha Bulowski | News, Politics, Ottawa Insider | October 12th 2021

John Horgan's NDP is set to review its royalty system for oil and gas companies. Photo courtesy of Province of British Columbia / Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

B.C. taking a long, hard look at its oil and gas royalty system

An independent assessment of British Columbia’s oil and gas royalty system confirms what many have been saying for years: It’s a "broken" program that is "not compatible with environmental goals."

By Cloe Logan | News | October 12th 2021

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