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    Orcas in the Southern Resident Killer Whale endangered J Pod play in the Salish Sea at sunset on Aug. 4, 2018, off Vancouver Island, B.C. (Richard Ellis/Alamy)

    B.C.’s ’southern resident’ orcas have been wandering far from home. Could this be the end?

    The orca family known as J pod have been swimming far away from their Salish Sea digs. Will they return in 2022?
    (Illustration by Sam Island)

    No charging spots and a strained electrical grid. Welcome to the electric vehicle boom.

    EVs are expected to boom in popularity by 2030. Whether that green switch will be without its problems is far from a sure thing.
    (Photo illustration by Justin Poulson)

    You’ll see more carbon labels in the grocery store next year. Here’s what they mean.

    Carbon labels tell consumers the environmental impact of oat milk, dish soap and more. Do they work?
    Peltier in November 2021 (Photograph by Blair Gable)

    Autumn Peltier on youth activism, challenging Trudeau, and a future in politics

    The 17-year-old climate activist spoke with Marie-Danielle Smith about working towards change, confronting Trudeau at 12 years old and what she’s focused on now
    New Moose sign. (Courtesy of Transportation Association of Canada)

    The TikTok star behind Canada’s new—and less floppy—moose crossing sign

    Chloë Chapdelaine, then 18 years old and living in a small town with no WiFi, redesigned the floppy-looking moose sign out of boredom. Now her design will officially replace the old one.
    Ontario Premier Ford once got a lot of mileage out of attacking the carbon tax but now seems to be easing off the gas (Nathan Denette/CP)

    The last gasp of the anti-carbon taxers

    While premiers rage about Ottawa’s overreach, their big fight to stop carbon taxes finally ends—and the environmentalists win
    A helicopter prepares to make a water drop as smoke billows along the Fraser River Valley near Lytton, B.C., on July 2, 2021 (James MacDonald/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

    Canadian politicians won’t be able to ignore climate change in 2022

    In a year that will see more wildfires, deadly heat waves and drought, climate change policy will dominate the federal government’s agenda
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    The beetle scientist on a mission to name the world’s most beguiling bugs

    Pat Bouchard wants to make sure each and every species of Coleoptera is properly identified
    An RCAF helicopter surveys the scene after rainstorms lashed British Columbia, triggering landslides and floods, shutting highways, in Abbottsford, B.C., Nov. 21, 2021. (Jennifer Gauthier, pool/CP)

    Canada’s economy won’t prosper without climate change investments

    Opinion: The B.C. floods remind us of the consequences of ignoring the need for investment into infrastructure
    Farms surrounded by floodwaters in Abbotsford, B.C., on Wednesday (Darryl Dyck/CP)

    The B.C. floods are a mere hint of what climate change could do to the food supply

    Barren store shelves will refill, and farmers will rebound in the short term, says food security expert Lenore Newman. But the system just can’t take disaster after disaster.
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