Biosolids pose a threat to healthy waters
Biosolids are nutrient rich, organic solid or semi-solid materials recovered from wastewater processing and their management is a growing challenge.
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Letter in Science identifies the contradiction between protecting economic growth and biodiversity in Canada’s Fraser River Estuary
The letter, asking whether Canada will permit killer whale extinction, identifies Canada’s conflicting aspirations and obligations to protect biodiversity while continuing to permit megaprojects that destroy the critical habitat of threatened and endangered species.
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Job Posting: Water Quality Coordinator
Applications close March 24, 2023.
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What does Canada’s ban on the manufacture and import of six types of single-use plastics mean?
Dr. Peter Ross was on CBC’s Podcast, About That.
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From laundry to the ocean: fixing the microplastics problem in clothes
Peter Ross was on Wall Street Journal’s, The Future of Everything podcast.
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Working toward healthy waters for people, salmon, and whales
We will be applying our community-based water pollution monitoring plan to select watersheds across southern BC in 2023.
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We need to understand the extent to which floods further degrade fish habitat
Our findings painted a bleak picture of the health of the waterways meandering through the remnants of Sumas Lake, drained nearly 100 years ago by the Barrowtown Pump Station.
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A former lake re-emerges: A backgrounder
The catastrophic floods of late 2021 in southern British Columbia (Canada) and neighbouring Washington State (USA) destroyed homes, farms, and businesses, with excess water spilling debris, animal carcasses, and diesel fuel into historically productive fish habitat.
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Vote to help Raincoast win a Land Rover to launch our mobile lab, Tracker
Raincoast has been selected as a finalist to win a Land Rover Defender 130.
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Our new Healthy Waters program
That’s where Healthy Waters fits in. A new Raincoast initiative that brings into focus our tacit participation in the water cycle, our role in shaping the quality of water in our surroundings, and opportunities to construct an innovation agenda that tackles pressing pollution issues.
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Measurable results
As someone who has pursued a life-long journey as an environmental scientist, I find myself wondering whether today’s ‘science to policy’ paradigm is sufficient to safeguard British Columbia from the ravages of climate change and the loss of biodiversity.
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Unpredictability of spills and how we are addressing them
This capacity will complement – but not replace – the capacity of government agencies and industry, and is intended to deliver expert technical support to First Nations and communities.
