This week, we're covering the environmental news headlines you may have missed over the past month. Stories covered include the impacts of heatwaves in both the UK and China, an activity update on the Mount Polley Mine in British Columbia, an Australian study that found high levels of lead in backyard chicken eggs, and increasing salmon populations in some BC rivers.

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This week, we are revisiting an episode that focuses on critical thought on the idea and history of conservation, and some reflections on the Terra Informers' own personally significant places and species.

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This week, we are revisiting a film discussion episode from October 2020 where the Terra Informers talked about the 1984 Hayao Miyazaki film, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

Terra Informa is on a break for the month of August! To kick us off, our friends Olivia deBourcier and Sofia Osborne have shared an episode of Beyond Blathers with us - their podcast about the insects, fish, and fossils of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. This episode is about the mole cricket!

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Summer is in full swing, and there's lots going on in environmental news! This week, we've got headlines about Vancouver city council's vote on a climate crisis litigation fund, a lost peacock in Jasper National Park, a dangerous frog army (??), as well as several headlines about sharks.

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This week, Sonak Patel gives us a lesson on hydrogen, the element you might remember from the periodic table you reviewed in chemistry class. In this episode, Sonak guides us through what hydrogen technology is and whether or not it really is the silver bullet to reducing our greenhouse gas emissions.

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In this audio documentary, Cindy Eisman and Christie Kwan, Community Service Learning students from the University of Alberta, explore why the City of Edmonton made the switch to a new cart system for management of household waste in 2021. 

Want an update on which single-use plastics are on track to be banned in Canada? Check out our June news roundup episode!

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In this week's episode, Terra Informer Sara Chitsaz takes us along as she swoops into the world of birdwatching! We also hear from bird enthusiast Kitty Rogers, who shares some insight on purple martins and tips for birdwatching.

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It's the end of another month, which means its time for another news roundup episode! This week, we've got everything from US Supreme Court decisions, single-use plastic bans, sea lice in BC salmon farms, carbon bombs (what are those??), and the terrible implications that a certain pollutant have on the male reproductive system.

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In this week's episode, Sonak Patel and Hannah Cunningham discuss the Montreal Protocol and the environmental crisis that was the discovery of the depletion of the ozone layer. Did the Montreal Protocol work? Did we save the ozone layer? And, if we did, can we also band together to address the environmental crisis of the 21st century: climate change?

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