Environment

Environment

Victoria clothing companies wrestle with fashion's wooliest questions

By Ayesha Habib
April 22, 2022

Anian has taken over Victoria with recycled wool clothes, even expanding to Vancouver—and it's not alone in the city's green fashion movement. How far can it grow without sacrificing its core values?

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Oak Bay has 28,000 new residents: Bowker Creek’s chum salmon eggs

By Emily Fagan
February 4, 2022

Meet the people leading the Bowker Creek Salmon resurgence

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Fairy Creek injunction is back in place by order of the BC appeal court

By Zoë Ducklow
January 27, 2022

The original injunction expired in October, but a temporary injunction has been active since

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Despite promised reforms, Fairy Creek is far from over

By Zoë Ducklow
November 25, 2021

Deferrals and changes to logging legislation is coming. But the activists aren’t leaving

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How can you find out if you live in a Vancouver Island high-risk flood zone?

By Brishti Basu
November 21, 2021

Flood risk expert Jason Thistlethwaite says Vancouver Island’s flood maps are outdated and inaccessible

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Where have the mushrooms gone?

By Zoë Ducklow
November 2, 2021

It's a bad year for certain kinds of popular mushrooms on Vancouver Island. We went mushroom hunting with two local experts to find out what's happening

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Injunction against Fairy Creek protesters expires without extension, due to RCMP conduct

Justice Thompson ruled Tuesday afternoon that the RCMP's enforcement of the injunction was harming the court's reputation

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Covid? Vancouver Island's foresters have another disease to worry about

By Andrew Findlay
September 20, 2021

A few years ago, Swiss needle cast wasn’t even listed as a pathogen of concern. Now, with help from climate change, it's everywhere.