Articles by Moira Donovan

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.

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

by Moira Donovan 22 September 2023

MALIKO’MIJK, Canada — Decades ago, the sea around Maliko’mijk Island was an expansive green carpet of eelgrass, the meadows so thick that members of the Pictou Landing First Nation had…

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

by Moira Donovan 27 September 2022

Discussions about the Greenland ice sheet often focus on what it’s losing. But from around the edges of the rapidly melting Greenland ice sheet, a global commodity is being created.…

In Canada, Indigenous communities and scientists collaborate on marine research

by Moira Donovan 15 February 2022

COLCHESTER COUNTY, Canada — Standing on the snow-covered banks of the Shubenacadie River in Canada’s eastern province, Nova Scotia, Alanna Sylbiloy tosses a wire trap into the icy water flowing…