Each week, BIV staff will share with you some of the interesting stories we have found from around the web.
Mark Falkenberg, deputy managing editor
This Q&A with UBC psychology professor Steven Taylor has useful advice on how to dig out from under the bad-news avalanche of recent days/weeks/months/years – The Tyee
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2022/02/28/Keep-Calm-Control-What-You-Can/
This explainer on the recent picturesquely destructive attack on the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline worksite in northwest B.C., which caused millions of dollars in damage to machinery, buildings and vehicles, sums up what’s known about the incident, and traces the history of conflict over the project. – The Narwhal
https://thenarwhal.ca/coastal-gaslink-attack-explainer/
Timothy Renshaw, managing editor:
Whlle we lurch closer to what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assures us is our inevitable extinction [https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-working-group-ii/], consider taking a smoke break from the omnipresent bad news cycle and breathe in the air of optimism generated by some good news, of which there is more than you think. For example:
After being hunted relentlessly until 1963 in the South Pacific and South Ocean, Humpback whales have made a significant recovery in Australian waters. A population that was down to around 1,500 has since rebounded to what is estimated to be close to 40,000 today – inspiring news from a region that is home to Tasmania's Wineglass Bay, so named, not because of its shape or its appeal as a location to share a glass or two, but because its waters regularly ran red with the blood of slaughtered whales. –The Week.
https://theweek.com/science/1010781/humpback-whales-are-thriving-in-australian-waters
Meanwhile in the Northern Hemisphere, North Sea pollution has dropped markedly since the 1980s, according to data from Germany's Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency. – BhaskarLive
https://www.bhaskarlive.in/contamination-levels-in-north-sea-declined-significantly-since-1980s/
And in better transportation battery news – of which we cannot get too much – we have the emergence of Australia's self-charging "Infinity Train." – New Atlas
https://newatlas.com/transport/fortescue-wae-infinity-train-electric/
