mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchOur team of investigative journalists dives deep to tell stories about the natural world in Canada you can’t find anywhere else.
Avi Bryant retired at 40 after making millions in the tech industry. Now, he’s part of Patriotic Millionaires, a group advocating for higher taxation of the country’s wealthiest citizens — which he says could help Canada achieve its climate goals https://thenarwhal.ca/canada-wealth-tax/
A pair of Cooper’s hawks made their home in one photographer’s backyard. Over the last 18 months, he’s watched these wild birds adapt their routines to urban living https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-coopers-hawks/
Elon Musk’s company wants to put data centres into orbit around the Earth. If it happens, the satellites would outshine the stars https://thenarwhal.ca/opinion-spacex-satellites-night-sky/
In the rapidly warming Arctic, permafrost thaw is transforming the landscape in unpredictable and challenging ways https://thenarwhal.ca/nain-permafrost-thaw-nunatsiavut/
Exclusive: The LNG Canada plant — the country’s first major LNG facility, owned by Shell, Petronas, Korea Gas, PetroChina and Mitsubishi — is one of the highest sources of global emissions for flaring, undermining claims that Canada produces the cleanest natural gas in the world https://thenarwhal.ca/lng-canada-burned-gas/
The orphan wells trace back to a tangled web of foreign investors, a company based in the British Virgin Islands and a last-ditch effort to sell to a Chinese company for $22M https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-long-run-exploration-liabilities/
Fearing a Carney government proposal will erode the public’s right to know, opponents have asked a parliamentary committee to ‘urgently’ consider access to Information law https://thenarwhal.ca/canada-access-to-information-changes/
The Alberta government says new rules for all-season resorts will increase investor confidence and speed up approvals. Critics worry ‘there are no guardrails’ https://thenarwhal.ca/all-season-resorts-explainer-alberta/
The stretch of the popular southern Ontario beach used by the endangered bird is no longer provincially protected. Environmental groups are taking the federal government to court over delays in stepping in https://thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach-plover-court-case/
Our analysis found $500 million in expenses directly attributable to last year’s wildfires in Manitoba — from evacuation flights to lost homes to closed business to burned power poles. The true costs are even larger https://thenarwhal.ca/manitoba-wildfire-costs/
Thousands of wells belonging to beleaguered Calgary-based Long Run Exploration Ltd. have now been officially dubbed orphans https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-orphan-wells-increase/
Alberta allows windfall oil and gas payments to ranchers using public land. It’s a complicated issue — that also involves taxpayers https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-grazing-leases-explainer/
The federal government recently announced $230M for Indigenous Guardians — but there is little information about how or when the money will be spent https://thenarwhal.ca/indigenous-guardian-investment/
