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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 Mara Grunbaum
Feathers for Fuel
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August 24, 2011: Every year the U.S. poultry industry sheds up to 4.5 billion pounds of feathers, most of which head to landfills or are cooked down into feed for other animals. Why not turn the fluffy castoffs into environmentally friendlier plastics?
Don't Touch Those Seals
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February 23, 2011: Biologist Alejandro Acevedo-Gutiérrez usually studies marine mammal behavior, but lately he's been watching other creatures: human tourists.
PHOTOS: Massive Food Recalls
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August 29, 2010: Peanuts, pet food, processed spinach -- now more than half a billion eggs have been pulled off the shelves due to food-borne illness. An illustrated guide to four years of nationwide recalls.
Measuring the Human Toll in the Gulf
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August 26, 2010: The oil spill and chemical dispersants have raised public health concerns, but good data have been hard to find
On the Block
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August 26, 2010: A building isn't very green if people have to drive miles and miles to get to it
Wolf Victory
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August 26, 2010: NRDC and other conservation groups scored a huge victory August 5, when a federal judge ruled that gray wolves in Montana and Idaho must be returned to the endangered species list.
Dining Al Fresco
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August 26, 2010: Scientists cruising the Antarctic have often noticed that seabirds like hanging around icebergs.
De-Bugging Solar
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August 26, 2010: Bruce Robertson, an ecologist at Michigan State University, studies booby traps.
An Illuminating Moment
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August 26, 2010: New York City-based photographer Michael Weschler mostly takes high-profile celebrity portrait shots for a living.
Man, That’s Killer Weed
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August 26, 2010: Quickly, quietly, its leafy tendrils crept across American soil, engulfing hills, fields, trees, even abandoned cars and houses.
Mara Grunbaum
Mara Grunbaum is a freelance science and environmental reporter based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has also appeared in Discover, Scientific American, Popular Mechanics and Scienceline.org. She grew up poking at tide pools in Seattle, Washington.