Posted in environment on Jan 8th, 2012
What follows is a letter to the editor in response to a recent article in Conservation Magazine titled, Chasing Rainbows by Anders Halverson. “Lured by a utopian vision of nature, fish and game agencies dropped billions of trout into thousands of lakes. Now, they’re determined to undo the damage they caused,” writes Halverson. The article which [...]
Posted in environment on Nov 9th, 2011
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published A Primer on Using Biological Assessment to Support Water Quality Management. This technical document serves as a primer on the role of biological assessments in a variety of water quality management program applications including reporting on the condition of aquatic biota, developing biological criteria, and assessing environmental [...]
Posted in environment on Sep 12th, 2011
Fresh water is finite. Less than 1% of freshwater is available for all living things. Patagonia’s environmental campaign, Our Common Waters, spotlights the need to balance human water needs with those of animals and plants. See More> http://video.patagonia.com/video/Our-Common-Waters Tweet
Posted in environment on Apr 13th, 2011
TheDailyGreen writes that heading off to college can be a new challenge, one in which you can totally redefine yourself, and can be scary. “But you can also take this new experience to make the world a better place. So go green.” There are many small ways in which a college student can help the [...]
Posted in environment on Jan 17th, 2011
Citing “irreversible damage to clean water, environment in the region,” the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week reached final determination on the Spruce Mine. The decision comes after discussions between the agency and the company spanning more than a year failed to produce an agreement that would lead to a significant decrease in impacts to the [...]
Posted in environment on Sep 13th, 2010
Ed Stafford has become the first person known to have walked the length of the Amazon River in South America from its source to the sea. Stafford covered thousands of miles and received “50,000 mosquito bites” on a journey that took 860 days. His 2 ½ year expedition of endurance started April 2, 2008. Travelling the [...]
Posted in environment on Aug 16th, 2010
Poison being used to remove fish from a section of Montana’s Cherry Creek persisted longer than expected and killed nontarget fish Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks reported recently in a press release. The statement said fish were killed in the lower seven miles of Cherry Creek, a tributary of the Madison River southwest of Bozeman. >READ MORE Tweet
Posted in environment on Jul 16th, 2010
The Interior Department is writing new regulations for mountaintop-removal coal mining that would expand protections for waterways and require the restoration of dynamited mountaintops. The changes under consideration would apply to new applications for surface coal mining permits and would not apply to existing coal mines. The new rule would replace Interior’s previous watershed-protection guidelines [...]
Posted in environment on Jun 3rd, 2010
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources recently poisoned a two-mile stretch of the Little Calumet River and spent five days scooping up and sorting through the resulting 100,000 pounds of dead fish. The $1.5 million project was the second such poisoning intended to eradicate invasive Asian Carp, which some politicians and some environmental groups claim are an [...]
Posted in environment on Mar 31st, 2010
Major rivers that run dry and do not reach the sea anymore during the dry season include the Colorado in the southwestern United States, Rio Grande along the border between Texas and Mexico, Yellow River in the Northern China… Read List Read World: Overused Rivers Struggling to Reach the Sea via Radio Free Europe Tweet
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