David Suzuki

SCIENCE MATTERS: Urban expansion threatens country’s prime fertile farmlands

NANAIMO – Despite its huge area, Canada has relatively little dependable farmland.

COLUMN: Feds must heed damning report

Federal government auditor made some serious implications

SCIENCE MATTERS: Government must heed environment commissioner’s warning

NANAIMO – Environment commissioner identifies flaws with government’s approach to environmental protection.

SCIENCE MATTERS: Science isn’t just for scientists

NANAIMO – With some knowledge of scientific method, anyone can practise science.

Could hockey become an endangered sport?

One benefit of the National Hockey League strike: it gave people time to play outside on real ice!

SUZUKI: After 25 years, it’s time to stop spinning our wheels

World leaders began talking about climate change decades ago

SCIENCE MATTERS: Time to stop years of spinning our wheels

Many countries – as well as cities, states and provinces – are taking global warming seriously.

Let’s resolve to make it a real Happy New Year

Improving the bottom line on our gross national happiness in 2013

Let’s resolve to make it a real Happy New Year

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if world leaders resolved to look at life in a different light this New Year?

SCIENCE MATTERS: People need more for happiness

NANAIMO: Wouldn’t it be wonderful if world leaders resolved to look at life in a different light this new year?

SUZUKI: Let’s all resolve to make it a real happy new year

Happiness quotient an important measure of a society's success

SCIENCE MATTERS: Leadership needed on climate change issue

The race to become leader of the world’s most powerful democracy often seemed disconnected from reality.

SCIENCE MATTERS: Hurricane Sandy sends a strong message

The storm that wreaked havoc on Caribbean nations and the U.S. East Coast in late October offers a glimpse into our future.

Will we learn from Sandy?

'Our analysis shows that it is no longer enough to say that global warming will increase the likelihood of extreme weather ...

SCIENCE MATTERS: Time to ask questions about technology

NANAIMO: We need to look at the way we create and introduce technology.

SCIENCE MATTERS: Democracy sacrificed for short-term goals

NANAIMO: The problems to run pipelines from the Alberta tar sands across northern B.C. are well-known.

China deal and budget sacrifice democracy to short-term goals

Why, when so many people oppose the Northern Gateway pipeline, would government resort to extreme measures to push it through?

Suzuki: Mega-quarry pits farmland against industry

The desire to protect valuable and ever-diminishing farmland clashes with efforts to push industrial development.

SCIENCE MATTERS: Energy plan must be about more than energy

Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days.

SCIENCE MATTERS: Tackling climate change offers economic benefits

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.