environment

Photo shows the back of a man framed by a door, beyond which are visible the flames of a wildfire in the distance

As the world warms, the West learns it’s not exempt

A green circle with a dead, wilted plant in it.

Politics

The Withering of the Green Party

March 27, 2025April 1, 2025 - by Arno Kopecky

Internal divisions and leadership challenges threaten the party’s future. Can this election be different?

Paid Post

Centring Indigenous Values in Forest Management

November 18, 2024December 10, 2024 - by Glynis Ratcliffe

How forestry’s Indigenous partnerships can redefine the industry

A woman walks past a Body Shop with a dark green sign and pictures of birds and flowers in the windows

Business

Goodbye Body Shop? Buying Body Butter Can’t Save the World

May 14, 2024May 14, 2024 - by Lisa Whittington-Hill

After the company announced widespread closures, I visited a store for the first time in decades

A white plume of smoke hovers over a mountain range

Environment

Dreading Wildfire Season

April 29, 2024April 29, 2024 - by Eva Holland

The North’s light infrastructure makes wildfires less likely. It also makes them more dangerous

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World

Welcome to Mass Market Mountaineering

April 18, 2024April 18, 2024 - by Bernadette McDonald

Personal guides. Private chefs. Helicopter rides. Tensions are rising between Sherpas who do the hard work and the foreign climbers they escort to the top

A photo illustration of Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre walking away from a photo of the Athabasca oil sands cut out in the shape of his silhouette.

Politics

Why Conservatives Turned against the Environment

January 10, 2024July 25, 2024 - by Arno Kopecky

They’re busy making accusations of “eco-radicalism” while the world burns. It wasn’t always like that

A photo of a yellow-coloured sky as clouds of smoke cover the sun on Highway 3, outside of Yellowknife in August 2023.

Society

How I Got Out of Yellowknife as the Wildfire Loomed

August 25, 2023August 28, 2023 - by Herb Mathisen

In a time of back-to-back crises, how do we assess danger?

A photo of different disposable food containers and utensils made out of paper and cardboard.

Environment

When It Comes to Packaging, What’s Actually Sustainable?

August 24, 2023August 28, 2023 - by Nicole Schmidt

An expert unpacks the paper versus plastic debate, concerns about forever chemicals, and Tim Hortons’ pulp fibre lids

Environment / Paid Post

How Smart City Solutions Can Help Reduce Canada’s Carbon Emissions and Support Healthier Living

March 27, 2023April 12, 2023 - by The Walrus Lab

TELUS has partnered with the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus and others to respond to, and mitigate environmental and climate change-related issues.

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