“It’s a pretty amazing experience. This is the second time in about 30 years that we’ve managed to hatch these birds on a public beach,” she said. Keating added she hopes people won’t write off the birds, and will learn about their environment and how to better support it. The pied oystercatchers are endangered in…

With a predicted dryer than average summer ahead, the ACT Government is applying lessons learnt from the 2020 bushfires to protect the Canberra environment from devastating decline. Minister for the Environment Rebecca Vassarotti said that she is focusing her efforts on environmental protection and conservation strategies to respond to a difficult summer ahead. “A bushfire…

Kawartha Lakes – The Pinewood Water Treatment Plant is set to undergo construction from Monday November 20 to Friday November 24, subject to equipment delivery. The Ontario Clean Water Agency (OCWA), on behalf of Kawartha Lakes, operates and maintains the Pinewood Water Treatment Plant for the community of Pontypool. As part of life cycle replacement work…

Opposition is growing among hunters and anglers to a proposed road in Alaska’s iconic Brooks Range. The state has invested millions in the project, eyeing it as an economic development tool. The Brooks Range extends from Alaska’s Arctic into Canada’s Yukon. The Ambler Industrial Road would cut a 211-mile-long east to west swath through the…

<!– SHOW ARTICLE –> Utah Rep. Mike Schultz, R-Hooper. Great Salt Lake Collaborative Photo supplied, Utah House Utah Rep. Mike Schultz, R-Hooper. Editor’s note: This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative that partners news, education and media organizations to help inform people about the plight of the Great…

BYLINE: Mike Koon Newswise — It made headlines nationwide. An abrupt dust storm blinded drivers on I-55 south of Springfield, Ill., on May 1, causing a massive pileup, ultimately killing eight people and injuring 37. A team of researchers from the University of Illinois, Cornell University, and Texas A&M University will try to determine the…

SACRAMENTO, CA – Regulatory capture by Big Ag and Big Water is a sad fact of life in the “green” and “progressive” state of California. That’s why the Newsom administration has promoted the environmentally destructive Delta Tunnel project and “voluntary agreements” — and why today members of the Sites Project Authority Board, comprised of representatives of the water agencies that will…

SUPERIOR — Douglas County officials are working to turn around a fund created to help pay for projects to address environmental issues. The environment reserve fund was created in 2007 using $350,000 of the environment impact fee paid by American Transmission Company when the Arrowhead-Weston transmission line was built between Hermantown and Wausau. The goal…

The federal investments come through the EPA’s Columbia River Restoration Program, which was created by Senator Merkley to restore health, vitality of critical ecosystems Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is investing $31,768,530 million across seven Oregon projects and programs to reduce…