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Urban Harvest

Confronting climate change and poverty, a new crop of city farmers comes of age in Africa. Table of Contents | Digital Edition
Guardian Environmental Network
By Andrew Nikiforuk
The Ghost Forest
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September 19, 2011: As our climate warms, the relentless mountain pine beetle is destroying some of the West's oldest and most important trees. An excerpt from the new book "Empire of the Beetle."
Blame Canada!
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August 22, 2011: When we think of our northern neighbor, what comes to mind is a nation of enlightened, outdoorsy people who love hockey. Try thinking instead of a rapacious behemoth run amok.
Coming Soon to a Western State Near You?
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September 1, 2007: So far, rational environmental arguments have largely kept Utah's tar sands, which contain an estimated 12 billion to 20 billion barrels of oil, in the ground. Rising oil prices, however, may soon erase these historic constraints, just as they have done in Canada.
Canada's Highway to Hell
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September 1, 2007: Even sober energy experts wonder if Alberta has gone mad as the province tears up a vast wilderness to get at the world's dirtiest, most expensive -- and perhaps last -- reserves of oil.
Andrew Nikiforuk
One of Canada's leading journalists, Andrew Nikiforuk won the 2009 Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award for his expose on Alberta's growing tar sands industry (which grew out of his OnEarth article "Canada's... More