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Feature Articles
The Plastic-Eating Mushroom Of The Amazon And Ecuador's Development Dilemma
We've all felt like a mushroom at one point; kept in the dark and fed on s--t. But the humble fungus has taken on a noble role in the fight against the burgeoning global waste crisis ...
How the Harper Government Committed a Knowledge Massacre
Scientists are calling it "libricide." Seven of the nine world-famous Department of Fisheries and Oceans [DFO] libraries were closed by autumn 2013, ostensibly to digitize the materials and reduce costs...
You need to know about this tar sands pipeline to the U.S.
As the debate raged and the cross-border rhetoric went nuclear over Keystone XL, the good folks at Enbridge were craftily and quietly shipping hundreds of thousands of barrels per day of tar sands bitumen from Alberta ...
Humble Shroom Unlikely Soldier In War Against Global Warming
An Irish botanist, Brian Murphy, recently found that growing little-known fungi called endophytes inside plants helps defend them against disease but doesn't damage the plants ...
Line 5 environmental disaster waiting to happen
Like the root system of some dark, malevolent shrub, over two million kilometres of pipelines pump billions of barrels of oil and gas across the length and breadth of North America every day ...
Trevor Greene: ’I am still alive. This is my thank-you letter.’
It’s been 10 years since an axe was plunged into my head in Afghanistan. Over the past decade, I have often mused about the attack and my 16-year-old attacker, who journalists identified as Abdul Karim...
It was my generation's evil to fight
It’s the boy with the handwritten dictionary retired Capt. Trevor Greene thinks about now. He’s sitting in his wheelchair at his dining room table in Nanaimo, B.C. ...
Canada has an opportunity to influence U.S. climate action
I'm attempting to shine an optimistic, hopeful light on the fate of our children's earth under the climate change denier-in chief ...
W5 Captain Trevor Greene in his own words
On March 4, 2006, I was attending a meeting with village elders in the remote village of Shinkay, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan ...
Huge canal means problems for Nicaragua
When the French tried to build a canal through Panama in 1880, malaria, yellow fever and other tropical nastiness wiped out 20,000 and the project went bankrupt ...
