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To ward off crop extinctions in the event of some future catastrophe, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault opens today to receive thousands of seed samples from around the world.

Organized crime has taken over Naples' municipal waste disposal -- and the resulting, uncontrolled trash heaps are causing illness, ruining regional agriculture, and contributing to an atmosphere of ungovernability.

The government of British Columbia has announced a carbon tax system for the province -- the first in North America.

This op-ed calls on residents and historians to give more recognition to homes built in the last 50 years as true "historic" sites worth preservation.

Chris Turner reports on an artistic experiment in suburban agriculture that raised the ire of Calgary's city hall.

As a part of its special series of reports on the Alberta tar sands, the Globe & Mail outlines the extreme environmental impacts of the development.

In an effort to reduce carbon emissions from industrial plants, Abu Dhabi is planning to create a $4 billion underground carbon sequestration system -- a system that is expected to be closely watched by government and industry.

British Columbia's Premier Gordon Campbell has announced $14 billion worth of public transit investment.

Mumbai, Istanbul and other cities in the developing world are launching ambitious slum redevelopment plans that seem doomed to repeat the "urban inhumanity" of western postwar urban renewal projects.

The demolition of two historic buildings in Vancouver has many worried that the provincial preservation laws aren't doing enough to protect the city's historic stock.

Suburban and sprawling neighborhoods have been connected with disease and obesity in a new report.

Despite loft conversions and a rash of casino developments, Detroit continues to lose population and seems unlikely to recover any time soon, writes Lisa Rochon.

Government programs that subsidize energy-efficiency improvements in houses are being reconsidered as some claim the effort isn't worth the benefit.

Low vacancy rates are threatening to push younger populations out of Vancouver.

Protesting a road-widening plan that would eat up some of their properties, residents in Halifax, Nova Scotia, recently moved furniture into their front yards to create outdoor living rooms in the space transportation planners have proposed to take.

Vietnam has the second-strongest economic growth in Asia, which translates to rapid development and the destruction of many famous architectural sites in Hanoi, the country's capital.

Sicily's forests are being ravaged by fires many suspect are being set by the Mafia, who plan on reaping financial benefits when the land is rezoned for construction.

Drive-in movie theaters are satisfying a need for public spaces that also allow some privacy.

An enormous fire in Edmonton that destroyed a condo development under construction and damaged more than 70 nearby duplexes has resulted in calls to upgrade Canada's building codes.

Florida is moving to Toronto, a city that ranks high on his own Creativity Index, to teach at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.