Researchers, biologists and Indigenous communities are working to bring the plant species—and its benefits to healthy shorelines and carbon storage—back to Nova Scotia’s coastlines.
When Trinity Nicholas was a child, she would wade through lush beds of eelgrass off the shores of her home in Pictou County to swim in the warm waters of the Northumberland Strait. Meadows of the green fronds lined the coastline, providing vital habitat for lobsters, crabs, tiny invertebrates and a range of other species, including the eels that were an important part of her heritage on the Pictou Landing First Nation...
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Many Canadian cities manage snow removal, and should be used as models, including Barrie, Ontario…
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