Widespread public debate on building vast networks of snaking energy pipelines throughout Canada dominated the country’s environmental newsreel in 2014, and will continue making headlines in the year ahead.
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Cold Rush
The Arctic is melting as a result of global warming, with sea ice shrinking at an alarming rate. Within 30 years, the Arctic Ocean is projected to be virtually free of summer sea ice. This has led to a significant increase in marine traffic and the expectation of even larger […]
What’s Driving Nuclear Fusion?
Submarines: the mother of all invention. Or at least, a very specific kind of invention. In October, American defence contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. announced that it had made a nuclear fusion breakthrough.
500,000 Cubic Kilometres of Freshwater Beneath Oceans is Just a Drop in the Bucket
Last December, the world was abuzz with the news: 500,000 cubic kilometres of freshwater had been located under the ocean floor. It’s an amount 100 times greater than all the freshwater used since the beginning of the 20th century. Excited reports were coming from all corners of the globe. And […]
DIY Beekeeping
I used to be scared of bees. As a child I panicked and ran away screaming from bees during recess. Usually, the bee was just chillin’ on a dandelion. I know now that the bee was probably just minding its own business, collecting pollen from flowers.
Control-Act-Delete
The world is awash in electronic waste. With an ever-expanding market for electronic goods and continually shrinking product lifecycles, managing e-waste has become a global problem. In addition to the growing volumes of discarded computers, monitors, laptops, cellphones and other electronics in our landfills, e-waste often finds its way (by […]
Fully Destructible
In his book, The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia, Bernard Suits defines the act of playing games as “the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles.” It’s easy to dismiss playing games as an impediment to the real-world experiences required to develop an environmental ethos.
Controversial Spring Bear Hunt Returns to Ontario
Just over halfway through the reintroduced six-week spring bear hunt, which runs from May 1 to June 15, the province of Ontario has issued close to 2,300 licenses for black bears. Unfortunately, the Ministry of Natural Resources has no idea how many of those licences will be used this spring, […]
Environmental Legislation Killed by the Ontario Election
So we keep waiting. Ontario’s environmental community had reason for optimism when Kathleen Wynne assumed leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party in January 2013, knowing the new premier was more progressive than her predecessor Dalton McGuinty and perhaps more inclined to want to beef up the Liberals’ green cred.
We Animals
One of the first images in Canadian photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur’s We Animals shows a jade-headed buffalo beetle perched on a piece of wood in a glass terrarium. At first glance, it may seem like an odd choice to begin a book about human-animal relationships with an insect. After all, many […]
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