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Lynda Mapes is an environment reporter for the Seattle Times and the author of Witness Tree: Seasons of Change with a Century-Old Oak.
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Climate change as told by one tree Lynda Mapes is an environmental reporter with the Seattle Times . She wanted to tell the story of climate change through the living world, turning "a beautiful living thing" into a kind of historian. The result is the book Witness Tree: Seasons of Change with a Century-Old Oak . It's especially appropriate today, which is Arbor Day.
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The battle over Access Pipeline continues This week, Energy Transfer Partners resumed construction on the North Dakota Access Pipeline, which had been on hold since December. Now the Standing Rock Sioux are asking a court to halt the pipeline again. Arguments in that case are set for Monday.
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Victory at Standing Rock as feds halt pipeline construction A victory — or not victory — in Standing Rock, North Dakota. Native American "water protectors" celebrate that the Army Corps of Engineers has denied an easement for the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, December 4, 2016. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Yesterday the voices of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe and other protesters at Standing Rock were raised in victory after the Army Corps of Engineers announced it would not permit completion of the Dakota Access pipeline. But last night, Energy Transfer Partners said it would resume construction anyway.
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North Dakota pipeline protest grows violent Tear gas, concussion grenades, freezing cold water and rubber bullets were deployed against protesters last night and this morning -- not in some country across the seas but in Morton County, North Dakota. That's where hundreds of Native Americans and their supporters have vowed to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline from being tunneled under the Missouri River. Lynda Mapes, environment reporter for the Seattle Times , updates the tense stand-off between water protectors, oil industry developers and the courts.
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Standing Rock: Battle to block Dakota Pipeline continues The Dakota Pipeline is almost finished, but Native American protest continues and President Obama may have a new idea. Protestors against the Dakota Access Pipeline stand-off with police in this aerial photo of Highway 1806 and County Road 134 near the town of Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Morton County Sheriff's Office/Handout via Reuters In Cannon Ball, North Dakota last week, police in riot gear traveled in armored personnel carriers to confront protesters on foot and on horseback. It was the lasts confrontation in seven months of protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline. One reporter feared that somebody might get killed. She's Lynda Mapes with the Seattle Times .
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