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  Our Broken Home

  Bruce Barcott reviews Michael Novacek's Terra: Our 100-Million-Year-Old Ecosystem--and the Threats That Now Put it at Risk.
  Comments (0)  |  December 1, 2007
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  feature stories

  Our Trial By Fire

  While October's California fires grabbed the headlines, those in the Rocky Mountain West were even worse. In his dispatch from Montana, the author ponders a burning land in the era of global warming.
  Comments (4)  |  December 1, 2007
• frontlines

  Peace in the Garden

  An "intercultural garden" in Kassel, Germany, is run entirely by women from Morocco, Afghanistan, Somalia, and the former Yugoslavia.
  Comments (0)  |  December 1, 2007
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  feature stories

  Riding the Wild Charles

  Braving swamps, junkyards, suspicious locals, and Dunkin' Donuts coffee, one man pursues his quixotic quest to save the river in Boston's backyard.
  Comments (2)  |  December 1, 2007
• frontlines

  Sneezes Can Be Fatal

  Recent outbreaks of SARS, Ebola, and avian flu have all fanned anxiety about zoonotic diseases -- those that can move from animals to humans. But humans are not the only ones at risk.
  Comments (0)  |  December 1, 2007
• frontlines

  They Didn't Mean That

  The Bush administration edits the Centers for Disease Control on global warming.
  Comments (0)  |  December 1, 2007
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  open space

  Africa's Next Green Revolution

  The world's billion and a half poorest people -- the quarter of humanity malnourished to the point of brain damage and deformity -- are mostly rural and live on mostly arid lands. Global warming will increase the stock of such lands, especially in Africa.
  Comments (0)  |  September 1, 2007
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  feature stories

  Babe in the Woods

  How one New York City teen went to Maine, camped out, strapped on snowshoes, howled at the moon, and became an environmentalist.
  Comments (1)  |  September 1, 2007
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  feature stories

  Canada's Highway to Hell

  Even sober energy experts wonder if Alberta has gone mad as the province tears up a vast wilderness to get at the world's dirtiest, most expensive -- and perhaps last -- reserves of oil.
  Comments (26)  |  September 1, 2007
• short takes

  Coming Soon to a Western State Near You?

  So far, rational environmental arguments have largely kept Utah's tar sands, which contain an estimated 12 billion to 20 billion barrels of oil, in the ground. Rising oil prices, however, may soon erase these historic constraints, just as they have done in Canada.
  Comments (1)  |  September 1, 2007

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