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Multiple Departments Contain 80 Acre Forest Fire Near US-131

NORTHERN MICHIGAN (WPBN/WGTU) — Michigan State Police confirm an 80 acre forest fire has been contained. The fire spread near US-131 off County Line Road. Multiple fire departments from Grand Traverse, Wexford and Roscommon counties worked to contain the fire. According to the Fife Lake Springfield Fire Department, DNR planes took water from nearby Fife […]

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Metro Pledges Up to $10 Million for Projects Near Forest Park and On Willamette

The Metro Council has pledged up to $10 million toward three significant park and urban projects in Oregon. The announcement highlights three plans that will be funded, in part, by Metro’s $30 million large-scale community visions program pilot round, which was approved by voters on the 2019 parks and nature bond measure. The Metro Council says the goal […]

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Antarctic Ocean Currents Heading for Collapse

Rapidly melting Antarctic ice is causing a dramatic slowdown in deep ocean currents and could have a disastrous effect on the climate, a new report warns. The deep-water flows which drive ocean currents could decline by 40% by 2050, a team of Australian scientists says. The currents carry vital heat, oxygen, carbon and nutrients around […]

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Starmer Accuses Government of ‘Turning Britain’s Waterways Into an Open Sewer’

Lib Dems call for Thérèse Coffey to resign after raw discharges sent into English rivers 825 times a day last year. Keir Starmer has accused the government of “turning Britain’s waterways into an open sewer”, as data showed raw discharges were sent into English rivers 825 times a day last year. Private water companies have […]

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Plants Teach Their Offspring How to Adapt to Climate Change, Scientists Find

Can a plant remember? This may sound more like a line from a poem than a scientific enquiry. But new analysis suggests that plants can pass on climate adaptation tips to their offspring. From devastating floods to rising temperatures, the climate crisis is changing natural habitats all over the world. To survive, many plants have been forced to quickly adapt, […]

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‘Bees Are Sentient’: Inside the Stunning Brains of Nature’s Hardest Workers

‘Bees are sentient’: inside the stunning brains of nature’s hardest workers ‘Fringe’ research suggests the insects that are essential to agriculture have emotions, dreams and even PTSD, raising complex ethical questions When Stephen Buchmann finds a wayward bee on a window inside his Tucson, Arizona, home, he goes to great lengths to capture and release […]

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Scientist Proposes Growing a Forest Inside a Bubble on Mars

The human quest to become an interplanetary species isn’t simply just because we’ve seen too much “Star Wars.” Over the past century or so, we’ve put our home planet under an increasingly dire amount of pressure. There’s only so much space, only so many resources, and even if we do make some ecological moves to avoid turning […]

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A deforestation roadmap that leaves a lot to be desired

COP27 started with the announcement of a plan to end deforestation in soy, palm oil and beef but experts think it’s without backbone or bite. This year’s COP27 climate negotiations started on a sobering note for me. The world’s largest commodity traders that control much of the global beef, soy and palm oil supply have […]

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How forest thinning waste could fund California wildfire prevention

Reducing catastrophic wildfire is one of the state’s most challenging climate problems. A recent study by researchers at UCLA and the University of Chicago found that wildfire carbon emissions from the 2020 fire season alone were more than double the amount of overall emissions reduced in California from 2003 to 2019.  The state set a goal of treating 1 […]

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The keepers of Cheewaht: Restoring an ecosystem for generations to come

Cheewaht Lake, BC – Off the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island, inland from the West Coast Trail, is a quiet and remote lake brimming with vibrant ecosystems. From trumpeter swans to black bears, the Cheewaht Lake watershed provides a home for dense and rare biodiversity. The Cheewaht Lake watershed is on the traditional territory […]

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