PROFILE: Dalhousie professor and Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement researcher, Katja Fennel, talks about both the challenges and the possibilities inherent in the science and how she went from skeptic to supporter.

Halifax-based Planetary Technologies is leading the charge on ocean alkalinity research by boosting the ocean’s ability to help us fight climate change, putting both Halifax and Nova Scotia on the map in terms of world leadership in this promising new scientific arena.

Given half the chance, nature can not only rebound but, in some cases, do the heavy lifting in our fight against climate change. That’s exactly what two water quality researchers discovered while working to improve the health of the West River in Pictou County, Nova Scotia.

The Nunatsiavut Energy Efficiency Retrofits program delivers comfort and savings in isolated, Inuit-governed communities in Northern Labrador.

A quick update on where things stand with Halifax’s ambitious climate plan since we last spoke in 2024

A quick update on how things have been going with Mahone Bay’s Living Shoreline project since we last spoke in 2023.

A quick update on how things have been going with Halifax’s Building to Zero Exchange since we last spoke, back in 2023.

Local research in the new and promising field of agrivoltaics, which pairs farmers and solar installations may be a game changer in a time of increasing climate uncertainty.

A quick update on how things have been going with Dartmouth’s Grace United Church and the Faithful Footprints program as a whole since we last spoke for the 2023 article.

A look at recent green upgrades to Sable Island, and a peak into life and work on this most alluring, mystical, and much adored overgrown sandbar.

After a few hits and misses looks like harnessing Nova Scotia tidal power is on the rise again, attracting some industry heavy hitters.

Oysters, “ecosystem engineers,” prove their mettle in Boat Harbour inlet, showing they could be part of a nature-based approach to remediating one of Nova Scotia's most polluted marine sites.

A local software data company works to help vessel owners, ports, and utilities figure out the hows and how-to’s involved with embracing vessel electrification, and what’s needed to support any move in that direction.

We take a shallow dive with research scientist, Wayne Groszko, into a technology that holds a key to not only our ability to access cheaper, cleaner energy, but to do it in a way that supports our utilities’ efforts to avoid the need to turn to fossil fuels during periods of high energy demand.

Why a turn towards sodium-ion batteries might soon make a lot of sense.

Checking in on Hope Blooms, two years after our first article, only to find they’re now fully renewable and continuing to grow, in more ways than one.

A look at how some Nova Scotia towns and cities are preparing their waterfronts for what they know is coming.

Efficiency Nova Scotia brings retrofits to traditionally underserved communities dealing with challenging title and property ownership issues.

One NSCC researcher says the key to avoiding the worst of in-land flooding during increasingly more common, more severe storm events is to get ahead of them with potentially life-saving predictive mapping.

How drought is impacting Nova Scotia farmers, and what they’re doing about it.