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Evan Abramson, founder and principal of Landscape Interactions, will present "Plant-Pollinator Interactions on the Landscape: Native Pollination Systems" from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 10, at the Berkshire

Permafrost and ice wedges have built up over millennia in the Arctic. When they thaw, they destabilize the surrounding landscape. Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesAcross the Arctic, strange things are happening to the landscape. Massive lakes, several square miles in size, have disappeared in the span of a few days. Hillsides slump. Ice-rich ground collapses, leaving the landscape wavy where it once was flat, and in some locations creating vast fields of large, sunken

GREENFIELD — Greening Greenfield’s “Planting for Pollinators” event Saturday afternoon sowed the idea of insect-friendly gardens in its participants’ minds.The event, held at Just Roots, brought 15 people together to plant a pollinator-friendly garden...

Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: Protecting pollinator populations is key for phoebes, other birds Bees retrieve pollen from an azalea bush, one of the first plants that blooms in spring, in Jessica Tanner’s yard in Northampton. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS Jessica Tanner cleans out dead stems from her pollinator garden at her home in Northampton. She leaves the stems all winter so insects can live in them throughout the cold months and hatch in the spring. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS Bees retriev...

Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: Protecting pollinator populations is key for phoebes, other birds Bees retrieve pollen from an azalea bush, one of the first plants that blooms in spring, in Jessica Tanner’s yard in Northampton. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS Jessica Tanner cleans out dead stems from her pollinator garden at her home in Northampton. She leaves the stems all winter so insects can live in them throughout the cold months and hatch in the spring. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS Bees retriev...