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The joys — and grief — of summer camping in Canada

My canoe trip was filled with sights of waterfalls, loons, meteor showers and … charred trees. These days, it’s impossible to separate the magic of the natural world from the destruction we’ve wrought upon it

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A glimpse inside an active Alberta coal mine

In a rare move, one company gave The Narwhal a tour of its coal mine in the foothills of Alberta's Rocky Mountains, as the province grapples with the future of the industry

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Alberta changes legislation to allow farmers to destroy many wetlands

The province says farmers shouldn’t need permission to destroy temporary or seasonal wetlands. One advocate says that puts 94 per cent of prairie wetlands at risk

What the devastating glacier collapse in Nepal tells us about Canada’s rapidly changing ice

As experts work to understand a devastating Himalayan disaster, a Canadian hydrologist says the impacts of melting glaciers here include worsening wildfire, drought and threats to blocked highways

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