Category: Environment and Conservation

  • Zimbabwe seeks more solar power investment

    Zimbabwe seeks more solar power investment Leonard Ncube, [email protected]  THE Government is urging more investment in renewable energy, particularly solar, which has the potential to alter the country’s environmental and economic position while earning millions of dollars in carbon credits. The Government is already working with scores of Independent Power Producers who have invested in solar…

  • Zimbabwe seeks more solar power investment

    Zimbabwe seeks more solar power investment Leonard Ncube, [email protected]  THE Government is urging more investment in renewable energy, particularly solar, which has the potential to alter the country’s environmental and economic position while earning millions of dollars in carbon credits. The Government is already working with scores of Independent Power Producers who have invested in solar…

  • DeJoy updates on water park, NRG spur

    DeJoy updates on water park, NRG spur

    <!– SHOW ARTICLE –> Vince DeJoy’s bombshell this month at a Dunkirk Common Council Economic Development Committee meeting came early, when he announced that Amtrak wasn’t interested in building a local station. However, the planning and development director went on to offer updates about more city concerns. — The city has put out a request…

  • Tackling climate change and alleviating hunger

    Tackling climate change and alleviating hunger

    <!– SHOW ARTICLE –> ELMSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — When Sean Rafferty got his start in the grocery business, anything that wasn’t sold got tossed out. But on a recent day, Rafferty, the store manager for ShopRite of Elmsford-Greenburgh in New York, was preparing boxes of bread, donuts, fresh produce and dairy products to be picked…

  • Tackling climate change and alleviating hunger

    Tackling climate change and alleviating hunger

    <!– SHOW ARTICLE –> ELMSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — When Sean Rafferty got his start in the grocery business, anything that wasn’t sold got tossed out. But on a recent day, Rafferty, the store manager for ShopRite of Elmsford-Greenburgh in New York, was preparing boxes of bread, donuts, fresh produce and dairy products to be picked…

  • Towards a global strategy for the conservation of deep-sea active hydrothermal vents

    Abstract Deep-sea active hydrothermal vents are globally diverse, vulnerable, rare, remote, and isolated habitats, yet they face increasing threats from human activities, including deep-sea mining. To address the conservation challenges surrounding these habitats, we present a global assessment of the conservation status of deep-sea active vents. Our findings reveal that while 25% of the known…

  • Could pandemic-era boost in gardening lead to better health?

    It’s not hard to remember the period of the pandemic when everything from tomato cages to seeds were hard to find. And now Cornell researchers are supporting that anecdotal evidence with data. Katie Fiorella, an assistant professor in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health, said they asked 505 upstate New Yorkers about their levels…

  • Could pandemic-era boost in gardening lead to better health?

    It’s not hard to remember the period of the pandemic when everything from tomato cages to seeds were hard to find. And now Cornell researchers are supporting that anecdotal evidence with data. Katie Fiorella, an assistant professor in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health, said they asked 505 upstate New Yorkers about their levels…

  • Critically endangered Sumatran rhino born at Indonesian sanctuary

    Critically endangered Sumatran rhino born at Indonesian sanctuary

    A sanctuary in Indonesia is celebrating the birth of a Sumatran rhino, the most threatened species of rhinoceros in the world. The healthy male calf was born on Saturday at the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary at Way Kambas National Park in the Lampung province, the Indonesian government announced Sunday. The baby rhino is the first for…

  • Deer Hunter Charged with Hunting Over Smashed Pumpkins in Town of Evans

    A deer hunter in southern Erie County recently got into some trouble with the New York State DEC for allegedly hunting deer over bait. The DEC reports that Officer Don Damrath received a tip on November 9th from a location in the Town of Evans and trekked a half-mile into the woods with only one…