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Topic: Ecosystem

A herd of Plains Bison or buffalo grazing in Grand Teton Natonal Park in Wyoming, USA. (Jon G. Fuller/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Indigenous food sovereignty as community

Leilani Marie Labong - FoodPrint
Amazon rainforest, Brazil (Getty Images)

Biodiversity and climate change solution

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Gritter maintenance tractor spreading de icing salt on asphalt road (Getty Images/Lubo Ivanko)

Road salt is polluting our water supply

Eric Schank
This bison calf, standing in the doorway of a barn on the Blackfeet Reservation, is a symbol of hope for the Blackfoot people. (Louise Johns / Undark)

Bringing bison back to the Great Plains

Louise Johns - Undark
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The environmental perils of road salt

Anne N. Connor - Undark
(Leonardo Carrato/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Ecosystem loss, pollution & COVID-19

Leanna First-Arai - Truthout
Prairie Strips on Larry and Margaret Stone’s farm near Traer, IA. Strips were frost seeded in January 2016 and this photo was taken in July 2017, showing the first year of growth. (Lynn Betts of the NRCS / SWCS)

Native prarie: secret weapon for farmers

Nathan Beacom - Civil Eats
Ta'Kaiya Blaney is a 15 year old student from the Tla'Amin First Nation on Vancouver Island, in BC, Canada. (Disney)

Indigenous hunters: Protecting the earth

Mylène Ratelle, Jeffrey Fabian - The Conversation
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A picture taken on July 4, 2019 shows bees collecting nectar on a sunflower in a field in Weisskirchen, Germany. (Boris Roessler/AFP/Getty Images)

Bees: Bugs you can't live without

Milicent Cranor - WhoWhatWhy
Algae floats on the surface of Lake Erie's Maumee Bay in Oregon, Ohio, on Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. (AP/Paul Sancya)

Lake Erie's "Bill of rights"

Valerie Vande Panne - Independent Media Institute
FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2014, file photo, the City of Toledo water intake crib is surrounded by algae in Lake Erie, off the shore of Curtice, Ohio. Groups working to solve Lake Erie’s algae outbreaks agree that a key step will be targeting areas that are sending much of the algae-feeding phosphorus into the lake. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File) (AP)

Algae is taking over Lake Erie

Maria Gallucci - Grist

Liven up your desk (literally)

Salon Marketplace
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Change in bears' diets impact ecosystems

William Deacy - The Conversation
FILE - This Sept. 3, 2008 file photo shows an endangered desert tortoise sitting in the middle of an eastern Mojave Desert road near Ivanpah, Calif. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

The science of desert water

Judith Lewis Mernit - Capital & Main
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