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A dizzying bird’s-eye view of Alberta’s oilsands

It’s the largest bitumen deposit in the world. Mining there is visible from space. And for many Canadians, the oilsands are still completely unseen.

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Life and death near oilsands in Fort Chipewyan

A photographer spent years documenti communities downstream of Alberta’s oilsands. Then he was invited to join Warren Simpson, dying from a rare form of cancer he believed to be linked to the mines, for his last breaths
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The deep toll of tar sands on Canada's Indigenous people

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After climate-protection drift and despair, a blueprint for success emerges in Cascadia
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After climate-protection drift and despair, a blueprint for success emerges in Cascadia

Washington state's redoubled climate goals and fresh action plan revive hope to cut emissions. But ongoing fossil fuel development in BC could undercut Cascadia's progress.

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