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Banking on the seaweed rush
Seaweed farmers promise to feed us, combat climate change, support coastal communities, provide wildlife habitat, and more. Can seaweed do it all?
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In India, sacred groves are helping resurrect a near-extinct forest ecosystem
Botanists and community stewards from Auroville, Tamil Nadu, are using scattered patches of native forest as a blueprint to revive the tropical dry evergreen forest ecosystems of coastal India.
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Worried about sea level rise? Look for the lichens.
One of the great infrastructure challenges of the next few decades is to figure out which coastal sites should be abandoned and which can be saved. Lichens can help.
Study finds warming climate may improve North Cascades grizzly habitat
A study published this month found that the amount of high quality habitat for grizzly bears in the North Cascades will increase across all climate models, scenarios and time periods.
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Will wild coffee go extinct from climate change? Botanists say we can still save this crop
Climate change might drive wild coffee extinct, which would have broad impacts on the industry for the world's favorite drug.
I am the land
Native islander uses ancestral wisdom to help return Puerto Rico to its Indigenous roots.
Swamps can protect against climate change, if we only let them
Wetlands absorb carbon dioxide and buffer the excesses of drought and flood, yet we’ve drained much of this land. Can we learn to love our swamps?
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