Environment

Articles in Environment

October 2009

The Age of Breathing Underwater

by Chris Turner

Environmentalists have long struggled to save Nature from humanity’s negligence — and still we’ve reached the brink of catastrophe. How can we learn to thrive in the climate we’ve created? The answer begins beneath the sea...


July 2009

Decomposting Bodies

by James Glave

What’s the greenest way to dispose of human remains?


June 2009

An Inconvenient Talk

by Chris Turner

Dave Hughes’s guide to the end of the fossil fuel age


March 2009

The Opposite of Apocalypse

by J. B. MacKinnon

Conservationists are restoring a living tortoise fossil to its prehistoric range. Can we recreate nature?


January 2009

The Future Has Begun

by Nora Underwood

Vertical farms will take eating local to the next level — but are they safe?

Feed-In Frenzy

by Chris Turner

A simple green tariff has transformed Germany. Why isn’t Canada following suit?


December 2008

Eels on Wheels

by David Lees

The curious conservation of the Great Lakes eel


October 2008

The Business of Saving the Earth

by Chris Wood

Ecological economists are assigning a price to watersheds and other biological factories


June 2008

Before the Flood

by John Lorinc

Can sea barriers save New York from global warming’s perfect storm?


March 2008

Nuclear Reaction

by Kate Harries

Accusations of cancerous fallout divide a small Ontario town

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