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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 Morgan Heim
Wildlife Mass Mortality By the Numbers
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January 13, 2011: Between the news reports, Jon Stewart’s repeated references on The Daily Show and animal-costumed Saturday Night Live cast members, I’m sure I don’t need to tell you about the recent wildlife die-offs spinning news media... read more >
Peruvian Amazon braces for second coming of oil and gas
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February 23, 2010: The second wave of oil and natural gas exploration is headed for the Peruvian Amazon, a boom so massive it threatens an unprecedented amount of rain forest in the region. "More of the Peruvian Amazon has recently been... read more >
Walking the Eco Talk, few Americans put conservation into action
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February 23, 2010: Sure, supporting conservation sounds good. Who wouldn't want to get rid of pollution, reduce their carbon footprint, or better yet save the world? But while a new poll shows an overwhelming majority of people care strongly... read more >
Endangered Tuna Served at Sushi Restaurants
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November 22, 2009: Next time you head out to your favorite sushi restaurant, you might want to think twice about ordering the tuna. There's a good chance the fish on your plate could be an endangered species.A new study by the American Museum... read more >
Reclamation, Restoration and Mountaintop Removal
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August 25, 2009: My first taste of reclamation came as a grad student while on a fieldtrip along Colorado's "Uranium Highway." We stopped in the ghost town of Uravan, a former Uranium/Vanadium boomtown. And except for a couple... read more >
Ladybug Swarm Turns Green Mountain Red
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August 14, 2009:  Lady bugs unite! When a friend of mine posted some photos she took while on a hike on Boulder's Green Mountain, I couldn't believe my eyes. I saw entire tree trunks covered in red. The red was lady bugs, a mass... read more >
Into the Big Empty: Energy Boom and Bust in Wyoming's Red Desert
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August 4, 2009:  Journey into Wyoming's Red Desert, a little known wilderness the size of Denali National Park that brings the steppes of Mongolia to America's backyard. Here, energy companies vie for the desert's riches in a world... read more >
Saving the White-Shouldered Ibis and a Way of Life in Rural Cambodia
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July 31, 2009:  For the white-shouldered ibis, lives are ones marked by a dangerous flirtation with species extinction. Fewer than 500 remain in the world. But the once common bird's number is not up just yet, as the ibis finds a chance... read more >
Morgan Heim
I like to merge scientific exploration with journalism as a way of bringing people stories about our natural world. It's my hope that this will show just how closely tied we are to the health of the environment, and encourage us all to feel like participants in its conservation.