environment

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.

A woman stands beside a smoke stack and gazes at windmills on the horizon

Environment / September/October 2022

How the UK Is Winning the Race against Climate Change

August 17, 2022August 18, 2022 - by Anne Shibata Casselman

While Canada has fumbled every climate promise, the UK has been hitting its emissions targets. What would it take to catch up?

Fogs rolls onto the red cliffs on the Magdalen Islands

Environment

Are Quebec’s Most Beautiful Islands Doomed to Disappear?

August 3, 2022August 3, 2022 - by Taras Grescoe

The Magdalen Islands are being swallowed up by rising sea levels, leaving islanders with a stark choice: flee or stay

Planet earth stands in front of an empty United Nations general assembly hall.

Environment

Why Climate Change Is Not an Environmental Issue

June 24, 2022May 11, 2023 - by Chris Turner

Misunderstanding the nature of the peril humanity faces is one reason climate politics has been so prone to frustration and despair

A gif of jumping worms popping their heads out of holes in the ground.

Environment

Revenge of the Earthworms

June 13, 2022June 13, 2022 - by Moira Donovan

A gardener’s best friend? Think again. How invasive earthworms are wreaking havoc on our ecosystems

Giant mine building in silhouette against purple clouds at sunset.

Environment / May 2022

Arsenic and Gold: My Family’s Role in the Poisonous Legacy of Giant Mine

April 20, 2022May 2, 2022 - by Eva Holland

Could my grandfather have done more to stop the dangerous dust that spewed from the mine for decades?

Aerial view of Cootes Paradise in spring 2021

Environment / March/April 2022

Sewergate: There’s Something Rotten in the State of Our Waterways

March 4, 2022September 1, 2022 - by Nathan Whitlock

A sewage leak in southern Ontario highlights the toxic relationship between cities and water

Text saying "2021 Environment" over a green pattern of globes, plants, and animals

Environment / Science

Reckoning with the Natural World

December 29, 2021December 30, 2021 - by The Walrus Staff

The climate crisis kept the environment firmly planted in the headlines

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

How the UK Is Winning the Race against Climate Change

Are Quebec’s Most Beautiful Islands Doomed to Disappear?

Why Climate Change Is Not an Environmental Issue

Revenge of the Earthworms

Sewergate: There’s Something Rotten in the State of Our Waterways