Minnesota Tribe Fights Line 3 For Putting Water, Wild Rice at Risk
"In northern Minnesota, Anishinaabe people are fighting an oil pipeline that threatens their sustenance and spiritual connection to the land."
Source: Civil Eats, 05/24/2021
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Pesticides Becoming More Toxic For The World's Most Important Insects
"Over the last 25 years, the toxicity of 381 pesticides in the U.S. more than doubled for pollinators and aquatic invertebrates such as crustaceans, mayflies, and dragonflies, according to a new study."
Source: EHN, 05/19/2021
Calif. Climate Change To Trigger More Pesticide Use, Fouling Waterways
"Warmer temperatures would boost pest populations, causing farmers to use more insecticides that, with more frequent and severe storms, turn into toxic runoff."
Source: Inside Climate News, 05/11/2021
Trees Talk To Each Other. 'Mother Tree' Ecologist Hears Lessons For People
"Trees are "social creatures" that communicate with each other in cooperative ways that hold lessons for humans, too, ecologist Suzanne Simard says."
Source: NPR, 05/10/2021
"Secrets Of The Dead Wood: Ancient Oaks Hold Key To New Life"
"Oaks are the elders of London’s Richmond Park. Some of them are 800 years old and have slumped, bulged and grown cavernous with age. By the time King Charles I visited in 1625 and turned a collection of medieval farms into the royal park we have today, they would have already been veteran trees."
Source: Guardian, 05/06/2021
"Study: US Pesticide Use Falls But Harms Pollinators More"
"American farmers are using smaller amounts of better targeted pesticides, but these are harming pollinators, aquatic insects and some plants far more than decades ago, a new study finds."
Source: AP, 04/02/2021
"The Battle To Protect One Of America’s Last Wild Landscapes"
"An unlikely alliance of ranchers, Indigenous communities and environmentalists is trying to save the Owyhee Canyonlands."
Source: HuffPost, 04/01/2021
"Butterfly Numbers Plummeting In US West As Climate Crisis Takes Toll"
"The varied, and beautiful, butterfly species that dot the US west are being cut down by the climate crisis, new research has found, with rising temperatures helping cause a steep decline in butterfly numbers over the past 40 years."
Source: Guardian, 03/05/2021
Citrus Growers May Soon Have New Weapon Against Deadly Greening
"Citrus greening has decimated Florida’s industry and the infection is spreading in California. But a novel treatment, still in the testing phase, may suppress the disease and give trees immunity."
Source: Inside Climate News, 03/01/2021
"Insect Populations Suffering Death By 1,000 Cuts, Say Scientists"
"Insect populations are suffering “death by a thousand cuts”, with many falling at “frightening” rates that are “tearing apart the tapestry of life”, according to scientists behind a new volume of studies."
Source: Guardian, 01/12/2021
