ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE SAMPLES
Sarah has devoted a large part of her journalism career to covering stories about climate change. The science, the impacts, the policy, the intersectional nature of the issue, etc. This will be the defining issue of our time and Sarah is working to complete her MSc in Global Energy and Climate Policy to ensure she can help provide the best possible coverage.
The plan to turn my hometown into a nuclear waste dump
CANADALAND PODCAST | Canada has a nuclear problem... a nuclear waste problem. The hunt for a place to park radioactive waste has been ongoing in one form or another since 1978, but by 2023 it seems a solution will be within reach.
Enormous Fires Everywhere
CANADALAND PODCAST | Climate change means more fire on the landscape in Canada, but it doesn’t affect all communities equally. Indigenous people are the most likely to be displaced by wildfire and the disparity is only growing; the number of First Nations’ evacuees doubled in the last decade. We look at what that disparity means for one First Nation.
‘It was hard enough before’
THE NARWHAL | Farmers wait, desperate for rain, in a prolonged season of extremely dry conditions across central Canada where both provincial and federal governments have intervened with emergency adaptation measures.
Climate crisis gives birth to fear, uncertainty
WINNIPEG FREE PRESS | Environmental concerns kibosh romantic notions of parenthood for anxious couples getting used to the idea of growing old without kids.
Transforming transit
WINNIPEG FREE PRESS | Will Winnipeg’s new public transportation master plan - boosted by federal emissions-reduction money - be enough to persuade drivers to park and ride?
New spin on old polar vortex behaviour
WFP EXPLAINER | How climate change is impacting the polar vortex and what it means for both warm and cold winter weather in the northern hemisphere.
Alberta wrestles with its most critical resource: water
THE NARWHAL | After more than a decade of disasters brought on by water, the City of Calgary and Government of Alberta are looking for solutions to a problem that will only get worse with climate change.
Canadian officials are using Orwellian methods to protect oil and gas
FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE | As its energy industry comes under threat, Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta is taking aim at environmental activists.
Big oil, big divides
NATIONAL OBSERVER | Should First Nations capitalize on the opportunity to have industry money flowing into their communities? Or focus on decarbonization and the risks of climate change?
Trees are Canada's soldiers in the fight against climate change, and the losses are staggering
THE NARWHAL | Canada’s forests haven’t absorbed more carbon than they’ve released since 2001.
Jellyfish offer a sticky solution to the problem of plastic pollution
NEW SCIENTIST | Our oceans are full of microplastics and unnatural swarms of jellyfish. Could these beautiful animals possess a secret weapon to help clean up the environment?
