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Narrating Landscapes: How Indigenous Storytelling Can Unlock Our Environment’s Past
Blackfoot stories, handed down for hundreds of years, present a narrative portrait of our changing world at the end of the Ice Age.
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Glacial Ice Cores Reveal 15,000 Year Old Microbes
Ancient ice contains a rich microbial record going back thousands of years. Recent advances have provided tools to study their genes and evolution, but climate change threatens to erase this frozen archive.
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New United Nations Report on Climate Change Documents the Grave Condition of the World’s Glaciers
Almost all of the world’s glaciers are in retreat.
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Melting Ice and a High Altitude Dig Reveal Viking Secrets in Norway
A wealth of ancient artifacts stand to be discovered as high altitude ice melts, but the relationship between high altitude archaeology and climate change is a somber one.
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CO2 Reduction Law Rejected in Swiss Referendum
The people of Switzerland narrowly rejected a law that would have curbed greenhouse gas emissions, a win for commercial industries and a blow to environmental activists.
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As the Greenland Ice Sheet Retreats, Mercury is Being Released From the Bedrock Below
Scientists have found that Greenland’s bedrock is rich with mercury in some areas — and as the ice sheet rapidly melts, that mercury is being released into local waters.
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Blue Whale Population in Chile Threatened by Fishing Industry
Through vessel strikes and noise pollution, the fishing industry in Chilean Patagonia creates challenges for local blue whale populations.
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Environmentalists and Glacier Activists Are Poised to Rewrite Chile’s Constitution
A newly elected constitutional assembly is charged with rewriting Chile’s constitution from scratch, with strong representation from Indigenous peoples and environmentalists, including glacier activists.
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New Guidance Gives National Parks Tools to Make Tough Decisions on Climate Change
Guidance released in April aims to have parks incorporate climate change scenarios into all future planning, recognizing that it won’t be possible to save everything.
The first Earth Day in 1970 ignited a movement to stop polluting our planet. This Earth Month, join us in our commitment to realizing a just and sustainable future for our planet. Visit our Earth Day website for ideas, resources, and inspiration.
