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EPISODE · Mar 25, 2026 · 21 MIN

How a 150-year-old map may help unlock a climate solution

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Seafarers of old saw kelp as a danger, marking it on maps to avoid it. Today those maps are helping to restore kelp as a friend of the climate. Kelp sucks in carbon so the Tseshat First Nation is working hard to bring it back around the Broken Group Islands in BC. 

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