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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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    By Warren Olney • Apr 28, 2017 • 1 min read

    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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    100 days of executive action: Accomplishment or posturing?
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    100 days of executive action: Accomplishment or posturing?
    1. 1:21At UN, Tillerson calls for 'painful' North Korea sanctions
    2. 7:54Effective policy or political theater?
    3. 42:05Climate change as told by one treeYou’re reading this
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