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Sweden Native Brings Recycling Efforts to Wisconsin
2016-04-29 09:07:20| Waste Age
Swedish native Veronica Lundback has made her own makeshift recycling system in Wisconsin. read more
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An Earth Day look at 20 years of bringing back native vegetation
2016-04-22 16:52:43| PortlandOnline
April 22, 2016
With climate deal, activists seeks land rights for native people
2016-04-22 12:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: With world leaders converging in New York to sign a landmark climate deal, activists along with actor Alec Baldwin called on Thursday for a halt to deforestation, a contributor to global warming, by giving indigenous people rights to their land. Keeping indigenous tribes from being pushed off their land would help protect forests that absorb planet-warming greenhouse gasses, they told reporters in New York City. The climate change agreement, which commits world nations to lower greenhouse emissions,...
As climate warms, how do we decide when a plant is native?
2016-04-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The fate of a tree planted at poet Emily Dickinson's home raises questions about whether gardeners can -- or should -- play a role in helping plant species migrate in the face of rising temperatures and swiftly changing botanical zones. On rare occasions, the townsfolk of Amherst, Massachusetts, would catch a glimpse of a ghostly figure dressed in white, leaning over to tend her flowers by flickering lantern light. The mysterious recluse, who was better known to neighbors for her exquisite garden...
How climate change tore apart this Native American tribe
2016-04-11 18:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fusion: When the land was still arable, there were communal gardens. Watermelons, figs, fruit trees. A schoolhouse and a dance hall (which also served as a community center) once stood on the main avenue. Behind the houses, locals say, there used to be a forest, and the tribal elders knew which trees and shrubs to cull for medicine. Otters, armadillos, racoons, and rats were good for hunting, their furry hides used for clothing. And with fresh water on one side of the island and salt water on the other,...
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