As Facebook continues the boycot of Canadian news, we will attempt to keep you up-to-date with news stories affecting Nova Scotia and the global climate.

March 5, 2024 CBC News Josh Hoffman: N.S. wineries say new provincial program could be ‘catastrophic’ for local grape growers

March 4, 2024 Nova Scotia Government News Release: Nova Scotia launches new critical minerals strategy

March 3, 2024 CBC Maritime Connection Preston Mulligan: Whose responsibility should it be to protect our coastline here in the Maritimes?

March 1, 2024 Halifax City News Halifax Staff: HRM cuts power to encampment, people are planning to stay put: Grand Parade volunteer

March 1, 2024 Halifax Examiner Joan Baxter: Part 2 Supporters say there’s a lot of money to be made with a spring bear hunt; critics decry baiting and trophy collecting

March 1, 2024 National Observer Marc Fawcett-Atkinson: How a common — and contentious — pesticide is impacting Canada’s forests

 February, 2024 Saltscapes Bob Bancroft: The future of moose in parts of Atlantic Canada is unclear

February 29, 2024 Halifax Examiner Morning File Tim Bousquet Tory Rushton wants this bear to die

February 28, 2024 Halifax Examiner Suzanne Rent: Citizen scientists concerned logging holds were lifted at Goldsmith Lake

February 28, 2024 Halifax Examiner Joan Baxter: Part 1 Houston government proposes a spring bear hunt in Nova Scotia, reversing decades of policy. Why? And who is the government responding to?

Februari 28, 2024. CBC Radio Information Morning Portia Clark: Environment minister explains decision to scrap the Coastal Protection Act

February 27, 2024 CBC News Information Morning Portia Clark: EAC’s reaction to the provincial government scrapping the Coastal Protection Act

February 27, 2024 CTV News Ryan MacDonald: Residents dealing with erosion react to N.S. abandonment of Coastal Protection Act

February 27, 2024 The Coast Martin Bauman: Hartlen Point dispute between DND, environmental activists enters House of Commons

February 27, 2024 St Barbara ASX Release: Significant Visible Gold Intersected; First of Three-Hole Cochrane Hill Deeps Program Delivers

February 27, 2024 Saltwire Angela Capobianco: Pictou County Council issues letter against DNRR spring bear hunt pilot

February 26, 2024 Saltwire Luke Dyment: ‘It’s good to hear it’s being protected’; 900 acres of Cape Breton land designated as new provincial parks

February 26, 2024 National Observer Moira Donovan: Forests can add value without being clearcut

February 26, 2024 Engineers Nova Scotia Update: Coastal Protection Act Information

February 26, 2024 CBC News Michael Gorman: N.S. government scraps Coastal Protection Act

February 26, 2024 North Shore News Keith Doucette, The Canadian Press: New N.S. coastal protection plan shifts responsibility to homeowners, municipalities

February 25, 2024 The Guardian Donna Ferguson: ‘Does rewilding sort climate change? Yes!’: UK expert says nature can save planet and not harm farming

February 23, 2024 The Guardian Patrick Greenfield: Colombia vows to put nature at the heart of global environmental negotiations

February 23, 2024 City News Keith Doucette, The Canadian Press: Report calls for major changes to Nova Scotia’s power grid, new energy regulator

February 21, 2024 Saltwire Angela Capobianco: Orphaned cubs, lack of data: Concerns raised about spring bear hunt pilot

February 21, 2024 CBC News Information Morning Portia Clark: Ecology Action Centre weighs in on spring bear hunt

February 16, 2024 The New Lede Johnathan Hettinger and Carey Gillam: Alarming levels of weed killer found in study of pregnant women

February 15, 2024 CBC News Danielle Edwards: N.S. designates 15 new provincial parks, expands 2 others

February 17, 2024 The Laker News Pat Healey: Municipal Affairs and Housing responds to questions on Fall River Special designation area from us

February 8, 2024 Saltwire Opinion Letters Susan Walker: Oppose N.S. spring hunt to preserve bears

February 6, 2024 CBC Information Morning Portia Clark: Long-time hunter on proposed spring bear hunt

February 2, 2024 CBC News Michael Gorman: Environment Department finds hundreds of Coastal Protection Act submissions in junk mail

January 31, 2024 CBC Information Morning Portia Clark:  Hope for Wildlife on the proposed spring bear hunt

January 30, 2024 CBC News Luke Ettinger: Overdue or overkill? N.S. hunters weigh in on spring bear hunting

January 13, 2024 The Guardian Rachel Donald: “Human behavioural crisis at root of climate breakdown, say scientists”

January 11, 2024 Halifax Examiner Tim Bousquet: “This is how homeless villages become normalised”

January 11, 2024 Halifax Examiner Joan Baxter: The Ecology Action Centre slams use of windfarms to produce “green hydrogen” for export.

January 11, 2024 CBC News Michael Gorman: N.S. government refuses to release latest Coastal Protection Act survey results

January 10, 2024 The Guardian Maya Goodfellow: “We can’t pretend the ecological crisis is separate: the economist thinking differently about climate breakdown”

January 10, 2024 The Guysborough Journal Alec Bruce: “MODG surprised, upset by Province’s wilderness protections”

January 10, 2024. Halifax Examiner Suzanne Rent: “Council votes in favour of by-law amendments to restrict infilling on Northwest Arm”

January 10, 2024 Halifax Examiner Morning File: Tim Bousquet “North Mountain dump”

January 10, 2024 Halifax Examiner Morning File: Tim Bousquet “Governments hate poor people and as a result we are all being poisoned by bottled water”

January 3, 2024 Halifax Examiner Morning File, Philip Moscovitch: “What’s an economy for?”

January 3, 2024 The Guysborough Journal Alec Bruce: “Province protects thousands of acres across Guysborough County”

January 2, 2024 CBC  News Michael Gorman: “Still no word on results of latest consultation on Coastal Protection Act”

January 2, 2024 Halifax Examiner, Joan Baxter: “Nova Scotia is practically giving away “some of the purist water in Canada“. Part 1

January 2, 2024 Halifax Examiner, Joan Baxter: “What are the environmental costs of bottling and exporting Nova Scotia’s groundwater?“. Part 2

January 2, 2024 Halifax Examiner Morning File Tim Bousquet, “Oligarch cage match: John Risley vs Trent Vichie”

December 21, 2023 CBC News (video) “Mass timber construction is on teh rise. Can it help the housing crisis?”

December 20, 2023 The New York Times Manuela Andreoni: “Brazilian State seeks millions in environmental damages from giant meatpacker”

December 20, 2023 CBC News Michael Gorman: “N.S. Government announces more protected areas, strategy to reach 2030 targets”.

December 18, 2023 Halifax Examiner Joan Baxter: Nova Scotia goes all in on ‘green hydrogen” But at what cost?

December 8, 2023 The New York Times Manuela Andreoni and Leanne Abraham: “How much can forests fight climate change? A sensor in space has answers”

December 4, 2023 Halifax Examiner Joan Baxter : “History will have a good laugh at us“. An interview with Michael Liebreich, a member of the UK Board of Trade, former advisor to the UN on Sustainable Energy for All, and an expert on the hydrogen economy.

December 4, 2023 The Narwhal Sarah Cox: “We followed an old-growth detective into the forest to fact-check BC’s suspicious claims about the age of trees”

November 16, 2023 Ecology Action Centre “Environmental groups denounce changes to the Nova Scotia Wetlands Conservation Policy”