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Africa’s Lakes Under Pressure: Lake Turkana, Lake Victoria and Lake Naivasha
Lake Victoria is the largest lake in Africa, and Lake Turkana is the largest desert lake on Earth. Lake Naivasha in Kenya is much smaller than either of them. Even so, a documentary on The Green Channel about it recalls the explorer Joseph Thomson describing it in 1883 as “a moving mass of waterbirds.” All […]
Why Comedy Works for Climate Stories and When It Does Not
In 2020, actor Shayan Bayat read a fake news bulletin for the opening of Climate Change is a Good Thing, an episode of Pressure Point, a satirical series by our founder Scott Renyard. “In a recent press conference, Canadian officials have indicated that they will be favouring domestically produced respiratory hazards over American smoke imports,” […]
Why Old Car Graveyards Are Beautiful and Why They Get Cleaned Up
For decades, hundreds of old cars sat on a property in Kaufdorf, a village near Bern in Switzerland, while a forest grew around them. Visitors described shrubs growing on the roofs and moss covering the wheels. Foxes and hares sheltered in the old car seats, and over 30 years trees grew between the car bodies […]
What Is Environmental Remediation? How Contaminated Land Gets Cleaned Up in Canada
As of October 2024, the federal government’s inventory of contaminated sites listed more than 20 thousand locations across Canada, and that list only covers land the federal government is responsible for. Most contaminated land in Canada belongs to private owners, municipalities or provinces. Much of it sits under places people drive past without a second […]
Love Ethics: When Cariño Becomes Action
What collaborative research with Indigenous Peoples teaches us about care, responsibility, and social change Love is rarely treated as a serious research method. In universities and public institutions, it is often pushed into the private realm, as though care and feeling compromise objectivity. Yet research is never free of values. Every project begins with choices: […]
How Communities Learn to Share Their Home With Bears and Coyotes
On September 10, 2026, the weekly Bear Report for Canmore, Alberta warned that a young black bear was being seen regularly in the Cougar Creek, Eagle Terrace and Benchlands neighbourhoods, feeding on people’s cherry trees. The same report reminded residents of a rule that most towns would never think to write down. In Canmore, if […]