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Green Society

The “Forest Gardens” That Could Help Canada’s First Nations Reclaim Their Land

A forest garden orchard in Nuchatlaht territory, British Columbia.
A forest garden orchard in Nuchatlaht territory, British Columbia. Chelsey Geralda Armstrong

For 3,000 years, the Sts’ailes Nation cultivated and nurtured plants for survival. Now researchers’ work about those forest gardens is being used to support a legal land claim by Canada’s Sts’ailes Nation against the province of British Columbia.

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climate change Green

How Indigenous Knowledge Can Crack The Code Of Permafrost Research

A man sits on his snowmobile in Tuktoyaktuk in the Arctic
A man sits on his snowmobile in Tuktoyaktuk in the Arctic Britta Pedersen/ZUMA

In the Canadian Arctic, two ambitious research initiatives try to strengthen climate data through community engagement.

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