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Indigenous sovereignty and Indigenous-led conservation are both crucial to Canada’s future. We explain in our latest ...
Last spring, Aamjiwnaang First Nation hit a breaking point. For weeks, enormous amounts of benzene had been leaking from a plastics plant across the road from the southwestern Ontario community’s band ...
Watch Trouble in the Headwaters, a short documentary about the hidden impacts of clear-cut logging and its connection to B.C.
The British Columbia government gave a green light to an 800-kilometre natural gas pipeline on Thursday, paving the way for construction to start — and setting the stage for what one First Nations ...
As wildfires increase in size and intensity, British Columbians are grappling with what it means for their communities. Photo: Jesse Winter / The Narwhal BC Wildfire Service uses compassion to dispel ...
Clason, a mountain ecosystems ecologist, became interested in the tree while studying under Haeussler as a master’s student. It’s August, but she’s wearing a toque and is bundled in several layers.
Pierre Poilievre was unable to secure a win for the Conservative Party of Canada. Photo: Kamara Morozuk / The Narwhal But nine days before the election campaign got into full swing, Carney killed the ...
The Ontario government is repealing the Endangered Species Act, making it easier to build mines and infrastructure projects like Highway 413. On April 17, the eve of the Easter long weekend, the Doug ...
Researchers Cori Lausen and Maleen Mund step out of the warm spring sun and into a dimly lit workshop. The only light streams in through the doorway behind them and a few dusty windows. It’s been a ...
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What happened to Atlantic whitefish in the wild? Whitefish belong to a highly vulnerable group. All four of Canada’s endemic freshwater species — also including Vancouver lamprey, blackfin cisco and ...
This investigation is a collaboration between The Narwhal and Investigative Journalism Foundation. On a warm mid-August afternoon in 2022, a BC Energy Regulator inspector drove to an oil and gas site ...