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TERRAIN

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Aerial view of surfers in a lineup at a California surf break
California Creek Team OC Environment Ocean Orange County Surf TERRAIN Water Quality

The Creek and the Break

When herbicide from Orange County flood channels ran into the surf, Creek Team OC started filming, and made the results public.

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Aerial view of wildfire smoke rising through a forest canopy
Climate Environment Forest Indigenous Recovery TERRAIN Wildfire

After the Fire

Black Summer burned 46 million acres and forced ecologists to rewrite everything they thought they knew about how forests recover.

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Salmon leaping over a waterfall during the upstream run
Alaska Environment Indigenous Pacific Northwest Salmon TERRAIN

The Run

Every autumn, Pacific chinook fight their way home against the current. What happens when the rivers stop waiting for them?

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A shark moving through a kelp forest in shafts of green and gold light
California Climate Conservation Japan Kelp Norway Ocean Tasmania TERRAIN

The Underwater Forest

From California to Tasmania, kelp forests are vanishing at alarming speed. In Norway and Japan, scientists are racing to bring them back.

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Moss-covered stream running through old-growth Pacific Northwest forest, fallen logs and towering conifers
Ecology Forests LLRULE Pacific Northwest Reforestation TERRAIN

ROOTS: A Day in the Life of Planting Forests

Follow a professional tree planter into Oregon's Coast Range, one seedling, one hole, one slope at a time, and see why reforestation is upstream of...

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