Episode
The Green Glacier
- Podcast
- Up From Dust
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- Apr 22, 2024
- Duration seconds
- 2569
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Summary
A vast ocean of grass and wildflowers once covered one-third of North America. But that diverse prairie biome is collapsing, partly due to greenhouse gases and to our obsession with trees. Humans have unleashed an aggressive canopy that’s swallowing the Great Plains. For ranchers, saving the environment means being a tree killer — not a tree hugger.