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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 Matthew Reid
Review: Silence of the Songbirds
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December 3, 2008: Bird conservation has been a focus of mine for many years. I remember as a teenage boy walking along the C and O Canal Towpath, near Washington D.C. and watching for migrating warblers in the spring. It was not unusual to... read more >
Why Raptors and Turbines Don't Mix
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December 2, 2008: Raptors--a class that includes hawks, falcons, and eagles--are daytime predatory birds.  They migrate in windy areas where, for obvious reasons, wind turbines are best sited.  Siting these wind turbines so that they pose... read more >
Our Ailing National Symbol--Toxins and the Bald Eagle
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December 1, 2008: I was sitting in my son's living room in Bozeman, Montana two days ago and an adult bald eagle flew overhead, two blocks from downtown Bozeman. Ten days ago, there were eight bald eagles flying overhead and perched in the... read more >
Matthew Reid
Matt Reid has birded extensively in North America and he has birded overseas. Reid has birded since 1968. He is married to Jennifer Emerson, who works in the NRDC Global Warming division. Reid is a wildlife biologist and lived in Montana for 27 years. He currently resides in... More