• Forests

Saving Northern Minnesota’s Forests Through Affirmative Adaptation

• boreal forest
• climate change
• conservation
• environment
• forest
• Minnesota
• science

The Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning series on climate change highlighting the places where temperatures have already warmed more than 2 degrees has a new installment, this one focusing on how to retain tree cover in Northern Minnesota so it doesn’t become a prairie, which scientists believe is a real risk. 

Why This Matters:  If Minnesota’s residents want to keep their forests, humans must limit greenhouse gas emissions, but even so, scientists are looking for ways to help the state’s forest adapt by changing it from spruce and fir trees to maples and oaks.

• Politics

Hero of the Week: The Late Ghanimat Azhdari — Indigenous Peoples’ Advocate

• boreal forest
• cultural heritage
• indigenous communities
• Ukraine

The tragedy of the loss of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 152 last week was compounded by the fact that among those who perished was a remarkable advocate for conserving the cultural heritage of indigenous communities. PhD student Ghanimat Azhdari, who was born into a nomadic tribe in Iran, was studying at Canada’s University of Guelph, […]