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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 Kim Tingley
Reefs Rife with Disease
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February 2, 2012: Human waste is running offshore in the Caribbean and infecting elkhorn coral -- critical habitat for other sea creatures -- with one bad bug.
Gender Bending in the Rockies
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January 17, 2012: Too many brothers mean big trouble for female marmots. They don’t tease her or pull hair, but they could ruin her future family life.
Little Body, Big Sound
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January 3, 2012: It’s only 2 millimeters long, but this insect’s mating call can compete with the roar of a lawnmower. Engineers are seeking its sonorous secret.
Slow and Steady Wins ... a Second Chance
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December 21, 2011: On an island in the Indian Ocean, exotic tortoises fill in for long-gone natives and give dwindling ebony trees a chance to make a comeback.
Hawaii's Marine Homebodies
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September 1, 2011: A special group of false killer whales has got our backs. Why we should have theirs.
Thin-Skinned
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August 9, 2011: They’re ugly. They ooze slime. Their digestive systems are partially on the outside. They creep along the seafloor and eat sunken whale corpses. And hagfish could represent the transitional form to vertebrate species like our own.
The Secret Minds of Bees
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July 29, 2011: As honeybees continue to desert their hives and die in large numbers, new research suggests that the insects may respond to stress in ways that seem an awful lot like humans do.
Worms Do It
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July 5, 2011: This conveniently transparent flatworm species engages in some particularly kinky reproductive practices (by human standards, at least).
The (Simian) Social Network
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June 21, 2011: It isn’t just humans who respond to photos of our pals. But in the case of macaques, to friend or not to friend could mean the difference between life and death.
The Cats Came Back
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June 9, 2011: The Florida panther has leapt back from the brink, but not everyone is so thrilled about it.
Kim Tingley
Kim Tingley is a freelance writer living in New York City. She has an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University and is a contributing writer for The Week magazine.