It turns out being a vegetarian is not actually better for the environment

Reader, beware! What I am about to tell you is difficult to share and tough to swallow. While ignorance may be bliss, the subject is all too urgent and both vegetable and meat eating readers alike deserve to know. After…

We have to choose the environment over poverty alleviation momentarily, says study

BY: EDITORS The first research model to track energy use per person predicts that world temperatures could rise 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2020 and the 2 degree threshold for widespread ecological damage by 2030. University of Queensland and Griffith University…

China is building a Great Green Wall of trees to stop desertification

BY: DAVID LAO The Gobi Desert, a sparse, desolate and barren region inhabiting the middle-northern border between China and Mongolia. A vast canvas of cascading sand dunes and wide expanses of dry heat waves, shimmering through are works of natural…

Here is how to bypass the government’s inaction and save the environment while sitting on your ass

BY: LISA CUMMING Crowdfunding has given us the ability to throw money at pretty much everything. This is how environmental activists are hacking the Internet to do something worthwhile. Naturfunding is the brainchild of crowdfunding giant Indiegogo and popular European…

As environmental issues get worse, farmer suicide rates are getting alarmingly high

BY: JESSICA BEUKER It’s been three decades since the height of the farm crisis, when farmer suicide rates were at an all time high. Today the suicide rates among farmers are still high—the second highest of any job right now.…

Less than 1% of Swedish trash ends up in a landfill

BY: ZOE MELNYK It’s difficult to imagine a world without trash, but Sweden seems to be heading in the right direction with less than one per cent of its trash actually reaching landfills. When compared to the United States’ 34.5…

Can Justin Trudeau support the environment and Oil Sands expansion? (Video)

BY: TYLER FYFE PHOTOGRAPHY BY: CONNOR BRIAN The Liberal Party is Canada’s centre party, but when it comes to matters as controversial as blanket surveillance and climate change, the middle ground is not a safe place stand. While Trudeau pushes…

At 20, Boyan Slat is developing a device to remove 7,250,000 tons of plastic from our oceans

BY: DEXTER BROWN Slat’s ambitious quest started on a Greek scuba diving trip when he was only 16. “I saw more plastic bags than fish,” the Dutch engineering student told the BBC. “Everyone said to me: ‘Oh there’s nothing you can do about plastic…

Environmental group mails fake bitumen to B.C. homes

BY: SINEAD MULHERN Checking the mailbox and finding tiny samples of dish soap in the mail is a fairly normal occurrence. Finding samples of simulated bitumen oil among the flyers, bills and Christmas cards however, is not. But that was…