I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home.

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

It may be that we simply go from one high-pollution season to another.

The days were brief and attenuated and the season appeared to be fixed – neither summer nor winter, spring nor fall. A thermal haze of inexpressible sweetness, though bearing tiny bits of grit or mica,...

Mandy loved the smell of a sunny day after a night of rain. The sun hit the orange puddles, the overgrown, soft, green grass on her lawn, and it beamed down through the orange steel...

The living sinners on deadly ground.