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Arashiyama Bamboo Grove in Kyoto, Japan. Photo by Eleonora Albasi on Unsplash. This story originally appeared in Inside Climate News and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. This report also was made possible in part by the Fund for Environmental Journalism of the Society of Environmental Journalists. As a kid, Lauren Lydick would pack up a towel, a Harry Potter book, and head out alone into the bamboo groves. As a teenager, she took a blanket, War and Peace and weed. Sometimes reading, sometimes just lying on her back looking up through the green, Lydick felt like she could be anywhere. Thailand, maybe, or Malaysia. It’s said that in rural parts of Japan, parents tell their children, If you feel an earthquake, run into the bamboo. Its roots will hold the earth together for you. Lydick felt that sense of protection somehow, even though she lived in Imperial County, Ca ....
The Radical Case for Growing Huge Swaths of Bamboo in North America The grass has a bad rap in the U.S. as an invasive nuisance, but the plant can quickly sequester at least double and maybe even six times the amount of carbon as a similar stand of trees. By Audrey Gray Related Share this article This report was made possible in part by the Fund for Environmental Journalism of the Society of Environmental Journalists. As a kid, Lauren Lydick would pack up a towel, a Harry Potter book, and head out alone into the bamboo groves. As a teenager, she took a blanket, ....
‘Stop the Steal’: Election fraud claims revive memories of Alabama’s 2002 governor’s race Updated Dec 13, 2020; Posted Dec 13, 2020 Trump supporters protest at the stop the steal rally outside the State Capitol Building in Lansing, Michigan on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020. (Joel Bissell | MLive.com)Joel Bissell Facebook Share President Donald Trump, among his allegations about election fraud, claims that Dominion Voting Systems machines deleted millions of votes that otherwise would have helped him win the presidential election. In Baldwin County, accusations of “computer glitches” brings back memories of a political drama that played out two years after Bush vs. Gore. A little more than 18 years ago, the county was the epicenter of a similar election snafu involving a “computer glitch” and claims of electoral chicanery. ....