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Kelsey Leonard, along with an international group of Indigenous researchers, has offered a definition of Water Back for Water research. Water Back means the return of Water and kin to Indigenous governance in a way that empowers the resurgent Indigenous Water relationships that are integral to Indigenous cultural, biological, spiritual and political sovereignty; this includes cosmogony, ceremony, access, law and policies.

A new study led by University of Waterloo researchers discovered greenhouse gas production during spring freeze-thaw events in cold temperate regions is significantly less when biobased residues like compost replace nitrogen fertilizer.