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New hydrophones measuring ocean noise installed in Strait of Georgia
STRAIT OF GEORGIA — A science team deployed a 450-kilogram “underwater listening station” on the floor of the Strait of Georgia on Friday, in an attempt to further unlock the secrets of ocean noise....
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B.C. dairy farmers fined $65,000 for antibiotics in milk
Eleven dairy farmers were fined a total of $65,000 over one year after their milk tested positive for antibiotics. The fines for the 12-month period ending July 2016 amount to an average of almost...
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Coyotes disrupt takeoffs, landings at B.C. airports
If coyotes could fly, well, maybe they would pose fewer problems on the ground. Coyotes were involved in at least 28 aviation incidents at four airports around B.C. over the last 12 months, according...
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Video: The Cariboo Chilcotin Coast – A Photographer’s Journey
Legendary landscape photographer Chris Harris is publishing his final book, The Cariboo Chilcotin Coast: A Photographer’s Journey, in September. He talks with reporter Larry Pynn about his project and...
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Port Moody marine lab faces axe as funding dries up
A unique, long-term study involving Steller sea lions in Burrard Inlet faces being scrapped after the U.S. government stopped funding the project. The University of B.C.’s Open Water Research Station...
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Environment Canada report warns Roberts Bank port expansion could...
The Port of Vancouver’s planned $2-billion container expansion at Roberts Bank poses a “risk of significant adverse environmental effects” to the habitat of migratory shorebirds, especially western...
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White sturgeon in Tsawwassen Bass Pro Shops aquarium is dead
It was supposed to be the star of the Bass Pro Shops’ “education aquarium” at the new Tsawwassen Mills shopping mall. But the metre-long-plus white sturgeon just didn’t look right from the beginning,...
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Port proposes to create 43 hectares of productive marshland at mouth of...
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority is proposing to convert a sand flat at the mouth of the Fraser River into 43 hectares of productive, intertidal marshland for a variety of wildlife, including...
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Vancouver Aquarium Ocean Wise program lacks enforcement; official partners...
Editor’s note: The Vancouver Aquarium does not use a green-yellow-red traffic-light system for rating seafood and, while Hung Win Seafood in Chinatown carries Ocean Wise-certified sustainable live...
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First-time study tracks northern Pacific sea birds off B.C. coast
In a global first, B.C. researchers have tracked several robin-sized seabirds — fork-tailed storm petrels — as they travelled up to 17,500 kilometres off the west coast of Vancouver Island in just over...
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Bull elk horns in on cattle community in heart of Fraser Valley
First came the provincial government’s reintroduction of Roosevelt elk from the Sunshine Coast to a series of wilderness watersheds from the Squamish River Valley to Harrison Lake. Then the elk...
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Chum salmon ‘beat the odds,’ return to Metro Vancouver streams
A bumper return of chum salmon to B.C.’s south coast is flooding urban streams in Metro Vancouver, inspiring dedicated streamkeepers, providing easy viewing opportunities for the public and offering...
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Photographer captures bobcat salmon fishing in Burnaby
The experience lasted only a couple of minutes, but photographer Mark Bates of North Vancouver will remember it for a lifetime. Bates was out photographing nature recently on a rainy afternoon with his...
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Environmentalists propose vessel exclusion zone off San Juan Island to...
U.S. environmental groups have proposed a 25-square-kilometre “protection zone” to prevent endangered southern resident killer whales from being disturbed by motorized vessels off Washington state’s...
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B.C. SPCA investigation of mall sturgeon death opens door to other stressed...
A B.C. SPCA decision to open a file on a sick sturgeon that was eventually euthanized at Bass Pro Shops in Tsawwassen is raising questions about the state of fish in other commercial live tanks and the...
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Dredging would threaten salinity levels in lower Fraser River, engineering...
The provincial government’s plan to replace the George Massey Tunnel with a new bridge near Ladner will have no significant impact on salinity levels in the lower Fraser River, a water and agriculture...
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Award-winning Surrey supplier of global wind turbines goes bankrupt
An award-winning Surrey company that described itself as a “world leader” in wind turbines has gone out of business. A bankruptcy notice on the front door of Endurance Wind Power in the Campbell...
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B.C. reports invasive mussels on 17 watercraft inspected this past boating...
The B.C. government announced Thursday it discovered invasive mussels on 17 watercraft inspected this past boating season. That number represents well under one per cent of the 24,500 watercraft...
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Inspections report reveals 60 per cent non-compliance rate under B.C....
Sixty per cent of operations inspected across B.C. in 2015 failed to comply with a key provincial environmental law, a new Ministry of Environment report reveals. Of 632 inspections under the...
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Going green: Vancouver council urged to provide more electric-vehicle...
Which came first, the electric vehicle or the charging station? Vancouver city staff are placing their bets on the latter, saying there are few electric vehicles on the roads because of a lack of...
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