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Boaters can use a innovative new online tool to choose eco-friendly products and clean up their act when it comes to washing toxic chemicals into waterways and oceans while maintaining their vessels.

Overfishing, combined with finning — a cruel and wasteful practice where live sharks are caught during targeted fisheries or as bycatch, then have their fins sliced off before discarded overboard to die are pushing shark populations to the brink of extinction.

Plankton, the key ingredients of the primordial ocean soup that allowed all life to flourish, are central to a new UN manifesto highlighting the big role the microscopic creatures can play in tackling the triple threat of global warming, biodiversity loss, and pollution.

Climate change and over harvesting continue to put Canadian fisheries at risk along with Indigenous and coastal communities’ food security and economic wellbeing, a new report indicates.

West coast environmental groups argue no measure would save southern resident whales from a catastrophic oil spill.

WSÁNEĆ Hereditary chiefs are urging federal Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier to close the last commercial herring fishery operating along the West Coast.

Tzeporah Berman, a Vancouver-based activist and policy advocate, is at the forefront of climate action nationally and internationally and driving the surge of momentum for her latest brainchild the Fossil fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Canada has launched a two-month, high-tech mission spanning the seas as far as Japan to tackle illegal fishing in international waters of the North Pacific.

B.C.'s party leaders emphasize the need to meet growing energy demands while keeping rates affordable and fostering First Nation’s ownership of energy projects — but proposed courses of action vary wildly.

Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau is doubling down on the carbon tax, but staying the course on progressive policies abandoned by the NDP isn't helping draw voters in B.C.'s polarized election.

BC Conservative Leader John Rustad is using First Nations as a "wedge issue", says Regional Chief Terry Teegee

As part of its ongoing BC election coverage, Canada’s National Observer is providing a cheat sheet on parties’ climate plans to date

B.C. Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau says she’s disrupted the province's two-party narrative before and intends to do it again in the upcoming election.

The North Island may well be a long held NDP stronghold but the recent spike in support for the BC Conservatives suggests a tight two-way race is in the making in the upcoming provincial election.

Two former members of the defunct BC United Party have opted to support NDP opponents in their ridings rather than the B.C. Conservative candidates.