Credit: Cherokee Community (Facebook) "A major land return in the Adirondacks is placing 600 acres of forest back under Haudenosaunee care. The Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center has acquired the wooded property in Onchiota, New York, from Paul Smith’s College for $1.1 million, with funding and assistance from The Nature Conservancy. The land lies in traditional Kanien’kehá:ka, or Mohawk, territory, within the homelands of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. The Nature Conservancy has described the acquisition as one of the largest private land returns in New York’s history. It also builds on a 2022 transfer of 330 nearby acres secured through a partnership with the Adirondack Land Trust, bringing the Cultural Center’s stewardship in Onchiota to about 900 acres. The land will support an expanded cultural center, Haudenosaunee gatherings, land-based education, and youth programming. It will also provide a permanent home for the Native Earth Program, which brings Indigenous high school students together to build community, reconnect with the Earth, and develop environmental leadership skills. For director David Fadden, the acquisition continues work begun by Ray and Christine Fadden, who founded the Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center in 1954 to educate Native and non-Native communities about Haudenosaunee history, culture, and contemporary realities. Plans include ecological surveys to identify sensitive areas, food and medicinal plants, wildlife habitat, and future trail routes. Conservation easements are also expected, with partners working to include Haudenosaunee perspectives and Mohawk language in the agreements. The project draws on long-standing Haudenosaunee principles of responsibility to future generations, including care for clean air, clean water, and healthy ecosystems.' #Haudenosaunee #Mohawk #IndigenousStewardship #Adirondacks Sources: North Country Public Radio, The Nature Conservancy, WWNY, Native News Online, Ictnews

Credit: Native People's Network (Facebook) "The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska has celebrated the return of roughly 1,600 acres of ancestral land along the Missouri River after a struggle lasting more than 50 years. The land was part of the Winnebago Reservation established by the 1865 treaty. After the Missouri River shifted, portions eventually lay on what became the Iowa side of the river. In the 1970s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers condemned Tribal land during river work and plans for a recreation project that was never built. After decades of advocacy, Congress approved the Winnebago Land Transfer Act, and it was signed into law July 12, 2024, returning approximately 1,600 acres to be held in trust as part of the Winnebago Reservation. On August 8, 2026, Tribal citizens gathered at the returned Iowa land for an official Land Back Celebration. More than five decades later, the land is again under Winnebago stewardship. What could the return of ancestral land mean for future generations? 🪶" #nativeamerican #Winnebago #LandBack #sovereignty #IndigenousPeoples Sources: • Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska — Winnebago Land Transfer Act & August 8, 2026 Land Back Celebration • Iowa Department of Natural Resources — 1,600-acre transfer to the Winnebago Tribe • U.S. Government Publishing Office — Winnebago Land Transfer Act

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Spanish highways are now generating power from the wind of passing cars. A pilot project near Madrid installed bladeless vortex turbines along a busy highway. The cylindrical devices oscillate in the turbulent air created by passing vehicles, generating electricity through electromagnetic induction. They produce power for highway lighting, signage, and emergency phones. The turbines are silent, bird-safe, and require no large foundations. They capture energy from wind gusts that traditional turbines cannot use. Each unit generates one hundred watts, and an array of fifty units powers a five-kilometer stretch of highway. Spain's highway network spans over seventeen thousand kilometers, offering vast potential for distributed generation. The project is a collaboration between the Spanish government and a renewable energy startup. It demonstrates how infrastructure can serve dual purposes. Researchers at the Polytechnic University of Madrid are optimizing the turbine spacing to maximize energy capture. The technology could be deployed along railways, airport runways, and industrial zones. This is a creative solution for urban energy generation. Source : Polytechnic University of Madrid Urban Wind Energy Report, 2025 (Credit: The Science Current / Facebook)

Credit: Gardening Tips and Tricks (Facebook) "One of the most surprising migration stories in North America involves an insect people assume never leaves the pond. THE SPECIES: Common green darner (Anax junius) — one of the largest and most widespread dragonflies in North America. Bright green thorax, blue or purplish abdomen in males. THE MIGRATION: Research using stable isotope analysis (led by researchers including Michael Hallworth at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center) showed green darners complete a multi-generational migratory cycle. One generation moves north in spring, a subsequent generation moves south in fall, and a resident generation overwinters in the south — a relay strategy similar in structure to monarchs. THE DISTANCE: Individual dragonflies have been documented traveling hundreds of miles, with the full annual cycle spanning a far greater range. THE SWARMS: Large fall movements sometimes produce dramatic swarms along coastlines, lake shores, and ridgelines — occasionally dense enough to show up on weather radar. WHAT TRIGGERS IT: Migration is linked to temperature thresholds — cold fronts push southbound movement. WHY IT MATTERS: Migrating dragonflies are voracious predators of flying insects, including mosquitoes, and they in turn become critical fuel for migrating falcons and other raptors. American kestrels and merlins are frequently observed hunting migrating dragonflies. WATCH FOR IT: Clear day after a cold front, near open water or along a shoreline, September. Look for hundreds of large dragonflies all moving the same direction." #dragonflymigration #greendarner #multigenerational #radarswarms #anaxjunius

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Credit : Nathan Walz (Facebook) "5 days ago · You have an emergency reset button built into the skin of your face and hardly anyone knows how to use it. This mechanism is one of the fastest ways to lower your heart rate and reduce anxiety. Seals, whales, and dolphins use a pronounced version of this. The moment their face touches water, their heart rate slows, allowing them to dive for longer periods of time. The trigeminal nerve drives this function. It’s one of the largest nerves in your head, covering the entire surface of your face. Cold water touching your face, especially your forehead, eyes, nose, and upper cheeks, fires the nerve. The vagus nerve activates and flips on your parasympathetic nervous system, also known as rest and digest. Parasympathetic response is where you want to be to feel calm, slow your heart, and reduce panic symptoms. Modern life does the opposite, keeping you stuck in fight or flight. This action is called the mammalian dive reflex. Babies instinctively use this to hold their breath and slow their heart rate when submerged in water. We took my son for swimming lessons when he was 5-6 months old and at the end, we dunked our babies. Every one of them knew to hold their breath and not one of them cried. The mammalian dive reflex is considered to be one of the most powerful autonomic reflexes in the human body. I have my clients activate this as a first step for cold adaptation. Many report that it's more effective than coffee to start their day. I concur. Other side effects include increased focus, less puffiness, tighter skin, and a healthy glow to your face, though temporary. To get started: 1️⃣ Fill a bowl with ice water. You want the temp to be 59F/15C or colder. Colder water creates a stronger response. If you tend to be sensitive, start warmer and work your way down. 2️⃣ Hold your breath and submerge your face to your hairline. Do a total of 5 dunks. 30-60 second rest between. Work towards 30 seconds or more for the extra adventurous. Longer breath holds create a stronger response. Have a towel on hand to dab your face in between dunks. CAUTION: If you have heart issues or other health conditions, get medical clearance. When used in the morning it increases alertness. Used at night it improves sleep. Add slow nasal breathing like Buteyko to extend the calm. Experiment to see what works best for you." #ReduceAnxiety #IceWaterHack

Credit: Facet They Don't Teach You (Facebook) "In 2019, researchers in Utah tried something unusual to help restore degraded desert rivers. They brought in beavers. Master’s student Emma Doden and her team captured 47 “nuisance” beavers that were being removed from farms and other properties and relocated them to the Price and San Rafael Rivers. The idea was simple. Beavers are ecosystem engineers. Their dams slow water down, create ponds and wetlands, and can make desert streams more complex and useful for fish and other wildlife. But moving a beaver into the desert isn’t easy. Many of the relocated animals moved far from where they were released, while others were killed by predators. Researchers found that survival and staying in the release areas were much lower for translocated beavers than for resident adults. Still, the beavers that stayed began building and maintaining dams. Researchers recorded more river reaches with beaver dams after the translocations than before, suggesting the animals could contribute to restoration even when the experiment didn’t go exactly as planned. The project is still a work in progress. Later research found that artificial beaver-dam structures did not significantly improve the survival or settlement of relocated beavers, showing just how difficult restoration can be in unpredictable desert rivers. But the experiment demonstrated something important. Sometimes restoring a damaged ecosystem doesn’t mean building everything yourself. Sometimes you can bring back an animal that has been doing the work for thousands of years and let nature take it from there." #Beavers #Ecosystem

Credit: Body Truth (Facebook) 🌿💧 Did you know? Scientists in Brazil have discovered that compounds from the moringa tree's seeds could help remove more than 98% of certain microplastics from water in laboratory testing. Researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) investigated a saline extract made from Moringa oleifera seeds as a natural coagulant for removing microplastics from drinking water. The results were remarkable. Under optimized laboratory conditions, the moringa extract removed approximately 98.5% of aged PVC microplastics from the test water, a result comparable to conventional aluminum sulfate treatment. The mechanism is fascinating. Proteins in moringa can carry positive charges that interact with the negatively charged microplastic particles. This causes the tiny particles to clump together into larger aggregates, which can then be trapped by a sand filtration system. Researchers tested the process using synthetic water containing aged PVC microplastics, rather than ordinary household tap water contaminated under everyday conditions. That distinction is important because the study is demonstrating the technology's potential rather than proving that moringa can remove every type of microplastic from any water source. But the potential is exciting: a plant-based material could eventually provide a more accessible and sustainable approach to water treatment, particularly in places where conventional chemical treatment is expensive or difficult to maintain. 💡 The fascinating part: A tree already known for its nutritional and water-treatment properties may also provide proteins capable of gathering microscopic plastic particles together so they can be filtered out. Researchers aren't just looking at moringa as a plant—they're exploring whether its natural chemistry could become part of the next generation of low-cost water purification. #Moringa #WaterPurification #EnvironmentalScience

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"One of the simplest ways to reset your vagus nerve and calm your nervous system is with your tongue. Stick it into your left cheek and hold for 10 seconds, then the right cheek for 10 seconds. I like to roll it around gently, this often triggers a deep sigh, signalling a vagus reset. You may also yawn or notice other subtle releases. Do 4–5 sets. This moves both the vagus and hypoglossal nerves, which are tightly connected in autonomic communication." -Anthony Goldsmith (Facebook) #VagusNerve #Tongue #NervousSystemHack

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Credit: Ravenous Butterflies (Facebook) “I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” John Muir - John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938. Wang Long Sheng - Path to Home, 2004.

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