Frontier Town land titles, VA fertility treatment, Svalbard filmmaker

Northern Light

English - May 16, 2024 04:00 - 29 minutes - 13.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
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(May 16, 2024) Development near Frontier Town in the eastern Adirondacks is on pause due to legal issues over land titles; the VA now pays for IVF treatment for unmarried and LGBTQ veterans. But they still must prove their fertility problems are service-related. Critics say more people should be eligible; and we hear from North Country filmmaker Scott Carroll ahead of his three-week voyage to an island in Norway, which he hopes will show how climate change impacts remote, fragile ecosystems, and foreshadows what could be coming to our own backyard.