David Geselbracht

Sep 23, 2024 | thewalrus.ca | David Geselbracht

The first time I interviewed Matt Humphrey, we were driving in his pickup truck through southern British Columbia, passing fields and forests, only five kilometres from the US border. Humphrey, then thirty-one years old, is a father of three and an evangelical Christian with a keen appreciation for the Bible. He is also an environmentalist, one who believes fighting climate change is a moral duty.

Sep 6, 2024 | canadiangeographic.ca | David Geselbracht

It was just after noon when I heard my phone beep. It was a text from Chief Patrick Michell, head of the Kanaka Bar Indian Band, located in BC’s Fraser Canyon. “As of this morning,” he wrote, “the Fraser Canyon Indigenous communities of Lytton, Skuppah, Siska, Kanaka and Boothroyd are under evacuation orders. The Village of Lytton is too.

Aug 28, 2024 | shop.canadiangeographic.ca | Monica Kidd |Thomas Lundy |David Geselbracht |Cara McKenna

FEATURESTHE POLITICS OF WILDFree-roaming horses have existed in Alberta for hundreds of years. Some say they're a nuisance, while others believe they have their own place in the landscape. By Monica KiddPhotography by Sandy SharkeyPROTECTORS OF AQVIQTUUQThe northern tip of mainland Canada is a paradise undisturbed by mining. Residents of Taloyoak, Nunavut, are fighting to keep it that way.

Nov 3, 2023 | broadview.org | David Geselbracht

Last December, the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) created a fund to help developing nations recover from the impacts of worsening climate change. Known as “loss and damage,” the fund was the result of a decades-long battle waged by developing countries, and Huq played an influential part. David Geselbracht spoke to Huq, whose office is in Dhaka.

May 5, 2023 | tinyurl.com | David Geselbracht |Javier Frutos |Ben Powless

It took anywhere from around 5,000 to 10,000 years for temperatures to rise during the PETM, all the resulting effects. Geologically speaking, that’s barely the blink of an eye. Even then, many species still had time to adapt to the higher temperatures: to shrink in size, to migrate. Despite the relative speed of warming, the adaptation process continued. But what occurred during the PETM in thousands of years is happening now in hundreds.