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A BIRD AND THE MEAD OF POETRY
Indigenous leaders warn of protests, halting developments over shale gas exemption
Assembly of First Nations Regional Chief Roger Augustine says ‘the blueprint’ for government to consult Indigenous groups is there. (Radio-Canada)
‘It is our job to ensure the protection of lands and waters for our future generations’: Chief Ross Perley
Top Indigenous leaders are warning that the Higgs government has made “a serious mistake” on shale gas that may reignite protests like those seen in the Rexton area in 2013.
They say the province’s duty to consult Indigenous people is clearly defined, and the government should have known how to proceed as it tries to restart the industry in one part of the province.
“It’s not as if this is all new,” said Roger Augustine, the regional chief for the Assembly of First Nations in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. “The blueprint is there.”
“There’s a lot of case law,” said Chief George Ginnish of Natoaganeg First Nation. “There are…
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ROOTS GORGE NEAR KAZIMIERZ DOLNY / POLAND
be in awe…
be like a child when you meet the world, greet the dandelions and see the magic, look to the wishes carried from it by the wind and let your mind spin and weave stories and kingdoms in seconds, see the good, be curious, be in awe…
Into The Unknown
Weekly Photo Challenge: On The Move – Invasives
On the move
As seeds take root
Adapted to a new environment
Displacing the natives
As their niches disappear
In a every changing landscape
One that we have played a hand in
In our wanting to control nature
To what we think it should be
Riches in the earth
Taken for our own needs
A new landscape emerges
One like everywhere else
On the move
As seeds take root
Great grey owl in Sweden video
Eurasian lynx in Sweden, video
The most extreme life on the planet. Part one: life in volcanos.
For all its beauty, Yellowstone National Park is a terrifying place. If it erupted tomorrow, most of America would be drowned in ash, and they wouldn’t see sunlight for weeks. Add extreme pressures, no nutrients and oxygen depletion to the searing heat in volcanic pools and you can understand why we used to think life here was impossible.
However, those amazing dashes of red, green and yellows sweeping across the volcanic pools are not from the rocks but from microbial life which aren’t just tolerating the scorching heat, but need it to survive.
Apart from being a liiitle bit painful, if I jumped in the pool and tried to survive, my cell membranes would crumble, my enzymes and proteins would melt and my DNA simply unravel and fall apart. How is it then, that at 115°C we…
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