Environment

Read the latest articles about issues pertaining to the land, water, and ecology of the Peterborough and Kawarthas region.

Riel commits to investing in buses

Would support Transportation Master Plan as mayor, despite uneven record as councillor

Latest in Environment
What do transit users think of the transit system?

Most voters in Peterborough never ride the bus

Alderville First Nation grants legal personhood to Rice Lake

Exploring an alternate solution to climate change, and a growing international movement

Promoting preparedness in East City

A grassroots movement aims to help neighbours out in the next big storm

Local teens vow to hold city to its climate commitments

Young people were loud proponents of Peterborough's new climate plan this spring. With the plan approved, they now say they'll keep fighting to ensure it gets implemented.

“We need these protections in place”: Peterborough residents warn against loss of environmental protections in wake of Bill 5

Ontario's Bill 5 aims to speed up development and resource extraction by weakening environmental protections

Reframe program invites reflection on our fraught relationship with logging

Logging has caused immense damage in North America. But could it also help our forests heal?

The soft power of the monarch butterfly

The Monarch Ultra introduces viewers to the epic monarch migration — and the local runner who followed the butterflies all the way to Mexico

This contaminated site is ready to be cleaned up. Will it happen?

Documents obtained by Peterborough Currents offer the fullest account yet to be made public of contamination at the former Outboard Marine property

Water walkers complete three-day trek around Pigeon Lake to advocate for clean water

“Water is not going to be here if we don't look after it,” said Elder Shirley Williams, who founded the annual Water Awareness Walks in 2010

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