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Fighting to save the last of Canada’s giant trees

A century of commercial logging has placed primeval forests, and their thriving ecosystems, on the cusp of extinction.

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Fuel spill in Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia

Fuel spill in Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest adds to pressure to cut fuel transport lines on Pacific Coast.

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Canada’s vanishing villages along the Lower North Shore

A historic region on Canada’s Atlantic coast pins its hopes for survival on a missing road link to the outside world.

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Here comes the Apocalypse, let’s tweet

Most people don’t appreciate – or even care – that we may be barrelling towards extinction.

Pakistani Christians hold candles during a vigil for victims of a deadly suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan [AP]

Who created ISIL?

All events collude and meld into all others; laying the blame on one actor or one event is simply a bias.

An ISIL fighter holds an ISIL flag and a weapon on a street in the city of Mosul, Iraq [REUTERS]

Killing Canada’s grizzly bears

Aboriginal Canadians and conservationists vow to end trophy hunt in British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest.

Canada

Canadians learn about tyranny

After 10 years of Stephen Harper, many Canadians can better empathise with those living under the rule of fear.

Canada''s new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau [REUTERS]

The lost forests of the Middle East

Environmental problems across the Middle East contrast harshly with a forgotten past.

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Fanaticism’s antidote: ‘The Sufis’

The 50th anniversary of ‘The Sufis’ comes at a time of great disorder and confusion in the world – c

Iraqi boys stand over the rubble of the grave of a Sufi cleric in Mosul [EPA]

Israel’s self-fulfilling prophecy on Iran

Another round of Middle East confrontation involving Israel may kick-start after the latest IAEA report.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad