ENERGY
Power switch
The move toward solar and wind hasn’t exactly been revolutionary, but it is gathering momentum
By Lawrence Scanlan
WILDLIFE
Caribou shuffle
Drilling for oil in caribou calving grounds on Alaska’s Arctic coast seems imminent. Can the herd, already in decline, survive the intrusion?
By Candace Savage with photography by Ken Madsen
RESOURCES
One last boom
Alberta’s rapidly expanding oil mines may be the largest and messiest industrial projects in Canadian history
By Gordon Laird with photography by Todd Korol
PARKS
Islands in the stream
In the midst of a river playground buzzed by powerboats, probed by scuba divers and plied by tankers, a national park tries to put ecology first
By Alan Morantz with photography by David Barbour
ENVIRONMENT
Trash action
When Nova Scotians said ‘no’ to a new incinerator, they triggered a grassroots recycling revolution
By Silver Donald Cameron
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