Environment – Zoe Cormier

Thread Lightly: Biofabrication and the End of Fast Fashion

Amidst the ecological fallout from fast fashion's disposable culture, innovators are turning to microbes to create durable, eco-friendly fabrics that challenge traditional manufacturing

12 November 2024

SynBioBeta

The Harsh Reality of Becoming Plastic People

Ziya Tong, Ben Addelman, and Rick Smith investigate the hidden costs of microplastics

8 May 2024

POV Magazine

The Soil Solution

The UN says the world's soils have barely 50 harvests left. What are we going to do about it?

1 April 2022

Off Magazine

Turning carbon emissions into plastic

Not only would this reduce the amount of fossil fuels we use, it would have an impact on climate change, lowering greenhouse gas emissions.

15 September 2019

BBC Earth

Why the Arctic is smouldering

We know the Arctic is melting – but it’s also on fire. And these wildfires could transform the pace, and scope, of global warming in ways that could affect us all.

27 August 2019

BBC Future

Cradle to cradle: our zero-waste future

Why designing things to breakdown is a good thing

2 May 2019

BBC Earth

Extinction Rebellion shut down parts of London – and brought much-needed attention to climate change

If the job of the protester is to get an issue onto the public agenda, and to hopefully shift the general understanding of what is possible – and what is essential – then they have done their job.

27 April 2019

The Globe & Mail

Elbow grease and tech: fighting the plastic crisis

A new old-fashioned solution to the plastic crisis

20 April 2019

BBC Earth

The truth about animal grief

Why we need to change how we talk about how animals grieve

1 February 2019

BBC Earth

Can captive animals ever truly return to the wild?

For some species, the road to release is a long one.

21 December 2018

BBC Earth

The technology fighting poachers

Poachers and criminal networks continue to drive endangered species towards extinction – but with the help of groundbreaking tech, authorities are fighting back.

18 December 2018

BBC Earth

The loudest voice in the animal kingdom

Uncovering the remarkable and mysterious audio world of dolphins and whales.

5 November 2018

BBC Earth

How a pregnancy test caused a catastrophe for frogs

By the time we realised what was happening, it was too late.

23 August 2018

BBC Earth

Saving Coral

The question is not if we can save the coral reefs, but if we choose to.

3 August 2018

BBC Earth

The fish that change sex

Male to female, female to male, and back and forth. Fish are the sex changing masters of the animal kingdom.

29 November 2017

BBC Earth

It’s not a load of crap: turn your urine and faeces into treasure

Don’t wait for astronauts to show us how to recycle bodily waste into useful products. Here’s how you can extract value from your own liquid assets now

25 August 2017

The Guardian

UK unveils plan to fight deadly ash disease

But most of the country's 90 million ash trees are likely to be wiped out.

9 November 2012

Nature News

Is the Green New Deal a dead duck?

Four years ago it was hailed as the cure for our economic and environmental woes. So what’s happened?

1 March 2012

New Internationalist

Biofuel from beneath the waves

Engineered bacterium can produce ethanol directly from seaweed.

19 January 2012

Nature News

Growth is not the solution

"But perhaps the core myth of our time is that deliberation of economic matters is pointless – or best left to experts. Neither is true."

23 November 2011

New Internationalist

In deep water

Protest, anger and controversy at the BP Annual General Meeting: "This is the last chance to hold the company accountable."

15 April 2011

New Internationalist

Have we reached The Tipping Point?

The fate of Alberta’s tar sands may be a turning point for civilization

15 March 2011

Point Of View

‘Safe for use’ – but not in Canada

Last week a delegation from the Asian Ban Asbestos Network, including cancer victims and widows, travelled from their homes in Indonesia, India and elsewhere to ask the Quebec government not to revive a dying industry that has brought cancer and death to millions of people around the world.

13 December 2010

New Internationalist

Peasants cool the planet

"A lot of NGOs who talk about climate change are only thinking about polar bears and trees – they are not familiar with how people’s lives are impacted. This is something that is, unfortunately, often missing from the broader environmental movement."

8 December 2010

New Internationalist

Thrown away

One week it’s a farmer’s field, and the next it’s a teeming mass of people, tents, stages, toilets, kitchens and bars. British music festivals are some of the biggest parties on the planet, so naturally they can leave a bit of a mess behind. Zoe Cormier looks at the clean up.

1 November 2010

Access All Areas

A new kind of prosperity

A conversation with renegade environmental economist Tim Jackson.

26 October 2010

Corporate Knights

The Scariest Documentary of the Year

Hot doc Countdown to Zero reawakens fears of nuclear war

28 September 2010

Point of View

A lethal injection

The Quebec government in Canada has given a life-saving injection to a bankrupt mine so it may continue producing one of the most dangerous and carcinogenic substances ever known.

13 September 2010

New Internationalist

Greenheart: Scotland’s brave new world

Eco-erotica, cleaner whisky and wild animals – more independence means a more natural environment for visitors, too

9 July 2010

The Globe and Mail

Workers of the world, relax

Some people work to live, others live to work. But the logic of growth means we produce more stuff with more efficient technology and less labour. So why not share those productivity gains in the form of less work?

1 July 2010

New Internationalist