Watershed Sentinel - Canada’s Award-Winning Environmental Magazine

Burnt ground and unburnt aspen trunks after the Monte Creek fire, 2021.

Stop the Spray: Glyphosate, Forest Monoculture, and Fire

Conifer farming is drenching BC forests in glyphosate, increasing the risk and intensity of forest fires.

Jen Groundwater

September 27, 2023

Aerial photo of flood devastation over Abbotsford and Chilliwack BC, November 23, 2021

Sue Big Oil challenges the short-term profits driving the climate crisis

And crucially, it will help communities pay for the massive costs imposed by climate change-related disasters

Andrew Gage

August 31, 2023

Discarded styrofoam float polluting a beach

Time's Up For Toxic Docks

The foam in floating docks is a major source of marine pollution. Washington has just banned it, Canada should too

Jen Groundwater

August 14, 2023

Dusk light over water, as author reflects on the Kearl Mining tailings leak.

Water Heart

The Kearl tailings spill, dreams, and the spirit of water

Cassandra Blondin Burt

July 10, 2023

Chief Joseph Dam on the Columbia River | Photo: US Army Corps of Engineers

Where Will BC Get the Electricity for Future LNG?

In BC's LNG-for-export gambit, electricity is only half of the equation. Water is the more significant other – leaving wild rivers vulnerable to speculation.

Sidney Coles

July 6, 2023

Food In/Security

October | November 2023

The theme of this issue is Food In/Security. At a time of global crisis around food, we need to future-proof by reaching for resilient solutions. Many factors, from huge agri-corps and globalization to climate change and the affordability of land, influence the abundance of food.