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Kiribati: Potentially the First Uninhabitable Island…
Kiribati, a central Pacific nation comprised of 33 atolls and reef islands will be one of the first countries in…
Playing with Fire – The Forces that Ignited…
This summer, British Columbia'a wildfire season surpassed 2017 as the worst on record, bringing fires to the…
Reality Check: Alternative Energy is Not a ‘Magic…
Renewable energy is the name of the game in today’s global environment, as political, business and scientific…
¡Viva la Conservación! Learning from Cuba’s…
Land, Air, Sea: Rethinking Cuba (maybe: Land, Sea, Sky?)
Cuba is a nation known for embodying paradox: it has a…
Day Zero: Cape Town Running Dry
Cape Town, South Africa is bracing for what officials termed "Day Zero", the day that Cape Town's water taps run…
China’s Waste Ban
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. This is the mantra of the modern environmentalist. But until recently, we were not faced…
Is Large-Scale Hydropower Sustainable?: Taking a…
Author's Note: I am currently working on my undergraduate thesis at McGill University. I chose to write about the…
Community Resistance to Renewable Energy Projects: The…
Wind Turbines at Your Doorstep
Taking the sleepy barge which spans the short distance between Amherst Island and…
It Is Two Minutes to Midnight and America’s Youth…
At the beginning of 2018, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the minute hand of its infamous Doomsday…
Bill C-69: Environment and Resource Project Policy
On February 8th, Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna announced sweeping amendments to the…
A Different Shade of Green: Is a New Kind of Green…
The recent protests in Iran—besides being the largest in the country since the Green movement took to the streets…
Pipe Dreams: Indigenous Protest in the U.S. and Canada
A Tale of Two Pipelines
Moving up in unison, dozens of national guard and police enter Oceti Sakowin camp with…