My recent piece about what’s in store for Guyana’s rainforest touched on the issue of carbon cap & trade markets and whether they can effectively reduce emissions globally. Especially when it comes to conserving the world’s remaining tropical forests. Here’s a piece in last week’s New Yorker worth reading, even if it glosses over the […]

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I’ve posted a version of my Globe and Mail article on Guyana’s rainforest proposal here.

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My feature on the future of Guyana’s rainforest appeared in Saturday’s Globe and Mail (Focus). Unfortunately, unless you’re a subscriber you’ll have to pay to read the article online—a practice which most other major North American dailies, including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, have dropped. For those who can’t access the article, […]

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Seeing as Canada is doing little to curb the destruction being wrought on the boreal forest by Alberta’s tar sands development or the staggering amount of waste water & greenhouse gas emissions generated to produce a single barrel of oil, it’s a relief at least to see Americans applying some pressure. A recently passed […]

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Greetings from Guatemala City, where I am currently finishing up close to a month´s worth of research for the book. The city itself is worth some investigation despite the dire warnings of the guidebooks and the almost complete absence of any foreign tourists. The largest, most cosmopolitan city in Central America, it´s sprawling, chaotic, often […]

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Now that a massive chunk of the Arctic ice shelf has calved itself off like a drifting tundra cracker—due to a variety of factors, all of which could be swept under the header of ‘global warming’—we have our second symbolic event to cast a shadow over the new year. The execution of Saddam Hussein was […]

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