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Gleanings from Headline News – September 2021

Gleanings September 2021

We’ve scanned the media – in print and online – for items of interest to ELA’s ecologically focused audience:

  • Generations Working Together to Solve Climate Crisis
  • Insect Apocalypse
  • The World’s Climate is in Our Hands/El Clima Mundial Está en Nuestras Manos
  • Rich Desert River Struggles to Keep Flowing
  • Las Vegas Gets Aggressive Grass Removal Policy
  • Is Your Garden Ecologically Sound?
  • Do U.S. Food Systems Leave Behind People of Color?
  • Update on Mysterious Bird Deaths
  • Electric Lawn Care Sweeping the Nation
  • Tips for Hiring an Arborist
  • Observation is the New Rule for Gardens

 

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Gleanings from Headline News – August 2021

We’ve scanned the media – in print and online – for items of interest to ELA’s ecologically focused audience:

  • Can We Save Ourselves?
  • The Plant That Cannot Die
  • Snakes on a Plane!
  • Should Geoengineering Science be Used to Combat Climate Change?
  • Pesticide Sprays Harm Grassland Birds
  • The Guardian Changes Use of ‘Climate Change’ to ‘Climate Emergency’
  • Who Are We to Decide an Owl’s Fate?
  • More and More and More Plastics in Our Oceans
  • What NYC’s Little Island Says About Parks and Inequality
  • Saving the Western Monarch
  • Rhode Island Confronts Access to Public Coast
  • Tracking Species Recovery
  • Facebook Snafu Spells Trouble for Gardening Group
  • Invasive Moth, Caterpillar Could Devour Boxwoods
  • Get Reacquainted with the Browntail Moth
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Gleanings from Headline News – July 2021

  • Scientist Still Searching for the Pathogen Behind the East’s Songbird Epidemic
  • Six Species that Need Federal Protection
  • Desert River Gila Struggles to Keep Flowing
  • The Tick Project
  • USDA Identify Racial Barriers to Under-Served Communities
  • Bipartisan Bill Addresses Pollution on Working Lands
  • Solar Array Planted with Biodiversity in Mind
  • Can Satellite Imagery Detect Habitat Loss?
  • Do-It-Yourself Rain Garden
  • Massachusetts Regional Ecological Partnership
  • Tool Kit for Massachusetts Pollinators
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Gleanings from Headline News – June 2021

We’ve scanned the media – in print and online – for items of interest to ELA’s ecologically focused audience:

  • Firefly Summer
  • Celebrate Pollinator Week June 21-27
  • Should We Help Endangered Species Move?
  • New Hampshire Team Works to Create Living Shoreline
  • A New Invasive Tick to Worry About
  • Be on the Lookout for the Invasive Box Tree Moth
  • Tree-Smart Trade
  • Plants Forced to Adapt to Rapidly Changing Climate
  • Could Dandelions Make More Sustainable Tires?
  • A Ticky Situation
  • How Best to Restore the Natural World?
  • Rethinking Forest Carbon Offsets
  • Wolves Have a Place in Healthy Ecosystem
  • The EU Moves to Slash Plastic Waste
  • Citizen Scientist Track Fireflies
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Gleanings from Headline News – May 2021

We’ve scanned the media – in print and online – for items of interest to ELA’s ecologically focused audience:

  • Controlling Invasive Japanese Knotweed
  • No Mow May
  • How and (Why) to Use Native plants
  • Is There A Market for Blue Carbon
  • Significant Scale Restoration on Gulf Coast
  • Lights, Camera, Action
  • Dialogue Between Art and Nature
  • Massachusetts Bans the Use of Neonicotinoids
  • The Dirt Beneath Our Feet
  • Coffee May Help Reforestation
  • Let Go of the Perfect Lawn Created By Fossil Fuels
  • Don’t Be Impulsive
  • Composting 101
  • Everything’s Comin Up Compost!
  • UConn Produces Native Plant Guide
  • Dark Skies Protect the Birds
  • Gardens, Art and Activism Together
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Gleanings from Headline News – April 2021

We’ve scanned the media – in print and online – for items of interest to ELA’s ecologically focused audience:

  • Tallamy Forms HomeGrown National Park Initiative
  • Resolution to Declare April Native Plant Month
  • Drilling Arctic Refuge Will Release Double Dose of Carbon
  • Spotted Lanternfly Alert
  • Cities Take Action to Limit Loud and Polluting Lawn Care
  • Irrigation Canals Covered in Solar Panels is a Win/Win
  • Amelanchiers: A Native to Brighten Any Garden
  • Study Shows Carbon Emissions Across Entire Food Production Chain
  • Leaf Litter: Love It and Leave It
  • Carex flacca Found to Be Invasive
  • Healthy Pots, Healthy Planet
  • Twenty-Seven Year Study of Buzzards Bay Water Quality
  • Virtual Democracy to Protect the Little Things That Run the World
  • How Do Maple Trees React to Climate Change
  • Sci-Fi Eco Thriller
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