Moira Donovan

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Moira Donovan is a freelance journalist based in Halifax, Canada, with experience reporting on marine conservation and coastal communities. She has written for the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), where she previously worked as an associate producer, Hakai Magazine, Christian Science Monitor, The Walrus and the Halifax Examiner.

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North Slave Métis Alliance guardian Wayne Mercredi on caribou patrol on the Tibbitt to Contwoyto winter road. Image courtesy of the North Slave Métis Alliance.

As Canada eyes Arctic road expansion, Indigenous guardians race to understand caribou

Moira Donovan 23 Jun 2026

Participants in an eelgrass coring workshop gather sediment cores from an eelgrass meadow, which will be used to establish how long the carbon stored by eelgrass stays locked away.

First Nation and scientists partner to revive climate-saving eelgrass

Moira Donovan 22 Sep 2023

An iceberg floats in Disko Bay, near Ilulissat, Greenland, on July 24, 2015. The massive Greenland ice sheet is shedding about 300 gigatons of ice a year into the ocean, making it the single largest source of sea level rise from melting ice. Image by NASA/Saskia Madlener via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Greenland’s Indigenous population favors extracting sand from melting ice sheet

Moira Donovan 27 Sep 2022

Canada marine

In Canada, Indigenous communities and scientists collaborate on marine research

Moira Donovan 15 Feb 2022

News and Inspiration from Nature's Frontline.

Collage, Fritz Pinnow, contributor, and a soldier

Polar bear mother with two cubs on a snowy sandbank in northern Alaska.

Mediterranean coast.

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