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Should we use less road salt? | Great Lakes Now
This story was produced by @tvotoday Salt trucks are a familiar sight in the Great Lakes region. Every winter, roads and sidewalks are covered with salt to melt ice and […]
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Inside a Champion Iceboater’s Workshop
Every winter, ice boaters race across frozen waterways, chasing serious speeds. Meet Ron Sherry. He’s an Iceboat World Champion and iceboat designer who build DN Class boats from his workshop […]
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Climate Change is Worsening Water Crisis for Canada’s largest First Nations population

As the Six Nations of the Grand River face water scarcity due to corporate extraction and limited land ownership, a new study shows how climate change will compound the issue.
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A network is racing to save the Midwest’s native seeds

As climate change intensifies wildfires and other extreme weather events, demand for native seeds is surging.
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Supreme Court’s Michigan pipeline case is about Native rights and fossil fuels, not just technical legal procedure

The issue in front of the US Supreme Court is seemingly mundane, about federal or state jurisdiction. But it is actually much bigger, encompassing some key questions of the 21st century.
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