Today’s Solutions: January 10, 2025

Students recently revived an ancient species of squash thought to be extinct. Using well-preserved 800-year-old seeds, students have successfully grown one squash in their school garden in Winnipeg, Canada. This will ensure that the species never goes extinct again. “This squash is representative of a tribe of a large community and everybody in that community having a place and food being a right on citizenship,” Brian Etkin, coordinator of the Garden of Learning in Winnipeg,…

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