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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 Sharon Levy
Living With Aliens
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September 6, 2011: Fast-evolving soapberry bugs offer hope in the battle against invasive species.
Queen of the Sun
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March 22, 2011: A new documentary brings the threatened world of the all-important honeybee into sharp and entertaining focus.
Penguins in Peril
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January 18, 2011: Adélie penguins are disappearing as the Antarctic sea ice where they spend the winter dwindles. A new book tracks and laments their loss.
Adorable but in Danger as Climate Changes
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October 13, 2010: Petite relatives of the rabbit, pikas are disappearing from some parts of their range. A visit to one of the places where they still flourish rekindles a decades-old love affair.
The Vanishing
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October 7, 2010: A team of researchers may have pinned down a contributor to colony collapse disorder, which is wiping out honey bees. OnEarth's Summer 2006 cover story was among the first to report the strange disappearance of bees and its impact on our food supply.
Riddle of the Shells
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December 1, 2009: How many individual animals do you need to keep a species alive? On California's Channel Islands, archaeologists are digging into the deep past to save an ancient mollusk.
The Giving Trees
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February 29, 2008: We value our ancient forests in so many ways: for wild creatures, for spiritual renewal, for profitable timber. But science and economics may be converging to make forests a vital asset in the fight against global warming.
The Little Mouse That Got in the Way
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December 1, 2006: Why an obscure, three-inch rodent holds the future of the Endangered Species Act in its tiny paws -- a tale of science and politics.
Sharon Levy
Sharon Levy spent a decade working as a field biologist in the woods of Northern California before taking up science writing full time. She is a regular contributor to National Wildlife and BioScience. Her book Once and Future Giants: The Fate of Megafauna in a... More