“There used to be a massive block of concrete here, there was an advertising column, it wasn’t so beautiful,” says Gilles Namur, waving his hand along the length of Cours Lafontaine, a street that ...

Lydia Larsen is a science and environmental journalist based in South Carolina's Lowcountry. Her work has appeared in Inside Climate News, Sierra, Hakai and Nature, among others.

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