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By Marc Fawcett-Atkinson, Local Journalism Initiative reporter for the National Observer  On a rare sunny late October day, a quartet of swimmers gathered around a deep pool ready to immerse themselves in the frigid...

Forget the boy who cried wolf. A different boy, El Niño, has arrived in B.C. And with some people comparing him to the monster Godzilla, or martial artist Bruce Lee, he makes wolves seem...

If you stand beside the Cowichan River today and watch the water surge through the rainforest, it’s hard to imagine that last summer was so parched that tens of thousands of juvenile salmon died–or...

B.C. is clearly not out of the woods yet as wildfires continue to burn, and many communities face fall drought conditions. Rain and colder weather have arrived, but it has not been enough to...

When we have a water pipe problem in a building, we call an engineer to design a fix. When we have a watershed issue–like regular flooding that threatens a town, or droughts that threaten...

Whirling disease has arrived in B.C. The tiny parasite kills about 90 per cent of young fish that it infects, such as commercially important salmon and trout species.  Fish showing symptoms of whirling disease...

A “sleeping giant” sounds like something out of a terrifying fairy tale. But that’s how Bowinn Ma, B.C.’s Emergency Management Minister, just described the record drought that has parched B.C. When the drought is...

If anyone had listened years ago to concerned citizens pleading for a new weir on the Cowichan River, would the fish kill this summer have occurred?Check out the full news story from West Coast...

Today the province of B.C. announced in Budget 2023 $100 million to kick start a Watershed Security Fund. This fund will support “wild salmon health, clean drinking water, biodiversity, flood resilience, economic opportunities, and...

Stoney Creek Environment Committee needs your help to defend Stoney Creek – home to one of the last urban salmon runs in the Lower Mainland. In July 2021, a construction waste dump killed over...