Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
Journalist | Vancouver |
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About Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson is a reporter and writer covering food systems, climate, disinformation, and plastics and the environment for Canada’s National Observer.
His ongoing investigations of the plastic industry in Canada won him a Webster Award's nomination in environmental reporting in 2021. He was also a nominee for a Canadian Association of Journalists's award for his reporting on disinformation.
Marc has previously written for High Country News, the Literary Review of Canada, and other publications on topics exploring relationships between people and their social and physical environments.
He holds an M.A. in journalism from the University of British Columbia and a B.A. in Human Ecology from the College of the Atlantic.
Climate change — and efforts to fix it — harming farmers’ mental health
Canada's efforts to reduce the climate impacts from farms will be most effective if they consider how they affect farmers' mental health, advocates say.
Greenwashing death threats ‘show you who the Conservatives are,’ NDP leader says
Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh slammed the federal Conservatives on Wednesday for spreading falsehoods that left his party's natural resources critic facing death threats and homophobic slurs.
MP gets death threats over greenwashing bill
MP Charlie Angus has been "inundated" with death threats, swearing and homophobic slurs over his proposal to curb greenwashing by the fossil fuel industry.
How a common — and contentious — pesticide is impacting Canada’s forests
A professor at the University of Northern British Columbia has been tapped to study the ecological impacts of glyphosate-based pesticides on forests.
Canada urged to act fast on toxic ‘forever’ chemicals
Environmentalists, Inuit and firefighters are urging the federal government to list a group of harmful chemicals as toxic under Canada's environmental protection laws because they can increase cancer risks and other health risks and linger in ecosystems for decades.
Fruit and grain farmers are braced for a bad summer
For months, Will Robbins has been praying for snow. The organic grain and cattle farmer's Saskatchewan fields are "tapped out" of water after three back-to-back years of drought.
Furnaces are in the crosshairs of the fight over gas
Proposed upgrades to B.C.'s efficiency standards for furnaces, water heaters and other home-heating appliances are coming under fire from some contractors and the province's far right.
Decarbonization the latest buzzword from gas companies
Fortis, one of Canada's largest gas utilities, has laid out its vision for survival in a world that is moving away from fossil fuels — use more gas.
Feds off-track courting foreign groceries
Forget Trader Joe's. Some observers say Canadian grocery co-ops are a better climate-friendly community alternative to big foreign chains.
‘Public health wasn’t the first priority,’ critics say after refinery leak
The leader of the BC Green Party says that provincial and municipal officials' slow response to a late January "incident" at a Vancouver-area refinery that smothered parts of Metro Vancouver in a hydrocarbon haze is cause for concern.