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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationForests and PlantsLatest NewsNewsOntarioScience, Technology, ResearchRestoring Ontario’s lost grasslands is as important as planting trees
-Most of the grasslands that once dotted Ontario have been lost to development and agriculture. Bringing back these carbon-rich landscapes would be good for birds, bees, butterflies and people.
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APForests and PlantsLatest NewsNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeScience, Technology, ResearchU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsBiden administration moves to protect old-growth forests as climate change brings fires, pests
-The Biden administration moved to conserve groves of old-growth trees on national forests across the U.S. and limit logging as climate change amplifies the threats they face from wildfires, insects and disease.
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Books, Authors, Art and MusicForests and PlantsHistory and CultureLatest NewsMichiganNewsScience, Technology, ResearchPoints North: The plant musician
-Tom Wall is a West Michigan rock star who uses plants as bandmates. He uses a device to harness the electricity in plants, which then turns those impulses into musical notes. Tom insists the plants are talking to us through the music. But can they really do that?
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Climate ChangeCollaborationForests and PlantsIndigenous CommunitiesLatest NewsMinnesotaNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchSurvival of wild rice threatened by climate change, increased rainfall in northern Minnesota
-Wild rice is an aquatic grass that thrives in shallow waters, and serves as a sacred “mashkiki,” or medicine, to the Ojibwe.
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CollaborationForests and PlantsLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeScience, Technology, ResearchRecord air pollution, Canadian wildfires prompts state to change how it issues air quality alerts
-In the wake of an EPA decision in May to ease air quality restrictions in metro Detroit, the region is experiencing its highest number of Ozone-related air quality notifications in a decade, as well as a new type of alert related to particulate matter.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationForests and PlantsLatest NewsMichiganNewsScience, Technology, ResearchMichigan air quality unhealthy again Monday because of Canadian wildfires
-Smoke blowing from Canadian wildfires hits Michigan again prompting an air quality alert. Haze from hundreds of fires has remained an issue much of the summer.
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Feature HomepageForests and PlantsLatest NewsNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchPoints North: Rekindling Wilderness
-The idea that wilderness is untouched by man is written into law, but it’s not so accurate. Humans have used fire to shape many places we call “wilderness.”
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Watch out! Creepy kudzu coming?
-Kudzo is on the list of plants and animals that pose an immediate or potential threat to Michigan’s economy, environment or human health.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipClimate ChangeFeature HomepageForests and PlantsGrand RapidsLatest NewsMichiganNew YorkNewsOntarioScience, Technology, ResearchMichigan under statewide advisory as Canada wildfire smoke hits Midwest
-Millions of Michiganders are under advisory through Wednesday after air currents pushed smoke from Canada wildfires to Michigan and other parts of the Midwest.
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Climate ChangeCollaborationFeature HomepageForests and PlantsLatest NewsNewsOntarioPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsIt isn’t arson: untangling climate misinformation around Canada’s raging wildfires
-Politicians — and people online — are peddling dangerous ideas about what’s causing Canada’s wildfires. Here’s what you need to know.
