I’ve worked several newsrooms in my time, always at
small rural papers and always as the only man on staff. As a consequence, I
became the de facto sports reporter, expected to assemble an entire section of
the paper with...
I probably won’t say anything here you don’t already
know in your bones, but here goes - the banks of the world financing fossil
fuels has been climatically imprudent for some time, and is now officially
immoral.
The Eastern hemlock is a force of nature in Nova
Scotia.
Not only is it among the most common trees in the
province, it’s invariably the oldest. It was routinely ignored by foresters
past and present in...
There is only one population of North Atlantic Right
whales left on Earth, and it can be found off our coastline every summer,
building the fat stores necessary for a southern winter. Were fate kinder,
their skin would be a...
I started birding by accident, intent on spending a
year identifying the trees of Eastern Canada, and instead falling in love with
their feathered residents.
In the space of a couple of weeks, I went from...
Put simply, conservation works. When government takes
the time to understand a species’ decline and cooperate with local NGOs to
enact timely and meaningful change, the most at-risk species under their
purview recover. Go figure.
A 2005...
The Boreal covers something like 60 per cent of
Canada’s landmass, dominated by spruce, aspen, larch and pine, among others.
It stretches from Alaska to Newfoundland, and houses
the majority of the species which define Canadian...
To recap, I wrote a column last spring expounding on
the climatic consequences of eating meat and dairy, and shamelessly promoted
veganism.
In it I quoted a landmark study published last year in
the journal Science, concluding
that,...
It’s almost that time of year when we open our wallets
and let their contents scatter to the winds of consumerism, buying things we
almost certainly don’t need in order to enjoy the short lived thrill of
newness. I do...
The more diverse an ecosystem, the more resilient it is
in the face of adversity. This is among the firmest precepts of biodiversity,
and is without doubt one of my favourite.
The more intact our wilderness,...