Jimmy Thomson

The green ribbon that makes up 75 per cent of Canada’s forests is among the largest intact wildernesses on the planet. Environmentalists call it 'one of the last great conservation opportunities.' What do we need to do to save the boreal? As the…

YELLOWKNIFE — It’s an expensive and sad reality that the universal sound of the North isn’t the howling of sled dogs, the mesmerizing joy of throat singing, the squeaking of boots on supercooled snow. The real sound — the one that’s consistent from…

Plant life in the tundra may be moving slowly, but for some species it’s a race to keep pace with our changing climate The changes in the treeline are so gradual, one could easily mistake them for an optical illusion. Step by step, as I climb out of …

Digging and scraping their way along river beds, a growing gold rush of placer miners is disturbing the territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation — all under the rules of a bygone era that leave both Indigenous and colonial governments out of …

Federal court’s rejection of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion shows a new way of evaluating major industrial projects is not only an essential step toward reconciliation, but necessary for industry Hans Matthews spent much of 2012 criss-crossing …

Far from the giddy days following the Paris Agreement, Canada’s carbon tax has recently run into strong headwinds — despite recent polling that shows a majority of the public is on board. The tax is set to come into effect in January, but Ontario’s …

Unknown in origin, foreign plastic particles are making their way to remote beaches in the Arctic, spurring new collaborative monitoring There isn’t an ocean beach in the world that has been tested and not found to contain tiny plastic fibres, beads …

Cascading down every stream and river, and swirling in every tide, is a wealth of information. Scoop up a handful of that water and it can tell you what fish are spawning upstream; what larvae are digging in amongst the pebbles to moult; perhaps even …

The fish that usually define the West Coast are moving north, raising big questions about how a warming climate is affecting northern ecosystems Salmon used to be infrequent visitors to the Mackenzie River and communities of the Arctic, but more …

Megan Clark, librarian at the Yellowknife Public Library, holds up one of her compliments from the jar, which reads, 'You have a great smile.' (Jimmy Thomson/CBC) Fourteen year-old Mohaned Babkier puts down his Luke Cage comic to take a slip of paper …

The B.C. government has released its review of the professional reliance system, which was implemented in the early 2000s and relinquished much of the provincial government’s responsibility for environmental monitoring to private companies hired by …

A new study suggests that vitamin D is an important regulator of the body's immune response to pregnancy. (Ian Waldie/Getty Images) Vitamin D — the sunshine vitamin — can be in short supply among sun-starved Canadians, and a new study says there may …

For the last decade B.C.’s professional reliance system has outsourced the responsibility for environmental monitoring to industry, creating a regulatory environment rife with controversy, protest and lawsuits The B.C. government is expected to …

Space-age pipes loom over me, two-pronged fingers jutting straight up at the sky. They plunge into the earth under our feet, where, like a steampunk Lovecraftian nightmare, the pipes full of carbon dioxide freeze a quarter-million tonnes of deadly …

Shop to your zero-waste heart’s content at Vancouver’s new packaging-free grocery store Brianne Miller wanted to help protect whales. So she opened a grocery store. That makes more sense if you see it through her eyes: she saw that at the root of …

When Inuk hunter Joseph Monteith went through the ice in Frobisher Bay, he had seen the signs coming long before. But it was already too late. The first domino, as Monteith puts it, had already fallen. “Our first indication that the ice was thin was …

Plastic is not only ending up in the Arctic, it's also being found throughout the food chain Resolute, Nunavut, is nearly 3,000 km directly north of Winnipeg. It’s a tiny hamlet of fewer than 200 people, nestled into the tundra of Cornwallis Island …

In 2015, a pipeline was designed to cut through a sensitive wetland in B.C. The professional biologist reviewing the project told his company that there could be significant damage to the wetland and an extensive monitoring program would have to be …

In 2015, a pipeline was designed to cut through a sensitive wetland in B.C. The professional biologist reviewing the project told his company that there could be significant damage to the wetland and an extensive monitoring program would have to be …