Posted in environment on May 7th, 2013
NORFOLK, VA. – Norfolk Southern has made substantial progress on its Trees and Trains reforestation program, planting 2.4 million trees on 4,000 acres in four states in the ecologically important Mississippi Delta. The Trees and Trains project is a five-year reforestation and carbon sequestration project to plant six million trees on 10,000 acres in the [...]
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Posted in water on Mar 20th, 2013
World Water Day is held annually on March 22 as to focus attention on the importance of freshwater and advocate for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. The United Nations General Assembly designated March 22, 1993 as the first World Water Day. Each year, World Water Day highlights a specific aspect of freshwater. In 2013, [...]
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Posted in conservation on Mar 11th, 2013
The adventure-documentary “Where the Yellowstone Goes” will make its Washington, D.C. premier at the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital next month. In its 21st year in Washington, the festival will consider the vital role of earth’s rivers in human survival. Introduced by Rebecca Wodder, Senior Advisor to the Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior, [...]
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Posted in climate on Feb 13th, 2013
Two new reports, The World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risks Report 2013 (http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2013/ ), and a draft of the third National Climate Assessment Report (http://www.globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment ) reinforce the validity of climate change and the interconnectedness of the economy and the environment. “According to Munich Reinsurance America, North America has seen a five-fold increase in natural [...]
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Posted in rivers on Dec 3rd, 2012
A recent set of four related articles published in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface takes a new approach to understanding sediment transport, a vital component to the ecological health and long-term evolution of river channels. When you look at a river’s water surface, it is rarely smooth. Instead, you can usually see the continual [...]
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Posted in conservation on Nov 1st, 2012
Craig Denisoff, owner of Craig Denisoff Consulting, will offer a one-day course titled, “Ecosystems Services and Markets” through UC Davis Extension on Thursday, Nov. 1. An optional half-day field trip will be held Nov. 2. Explore the innovative field of ecosystem services and learn how these habitat-based markets can provide new revenue streams to traditional [...]
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Posted in pollution on Oct 22nd, 2012
From Bloomberg Businessweek Tests of drinking water near a natural-gas drilling site in Wyoming back up findings that established the first link by the federal government between hydraulic fracturing and tainted water, the Environmental Protection Agency said. The EPA recently issued its follow-up analyses of two test wells it drilled in Pavillion and of five residents’ water [...]
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Posted in ecology on Oct 4th, 2012
The New York Times reported that Barry Commoner, a founder of modern ecology and one of its most provocative thinkers and mobilizers in making environmentalism a people’s political cause, died on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 95 and lived in Brooklyn Heights. He is probably best known for his work on the global effects of radioactive [...]
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Posted in policy on Oct 1st, 2012
A project led by a UK government agency to harness the power of Wikipedia to share environmental knowledge worldwide is opening a new front in the battle for open source, open data government. The original Wikipedia grew from nothing in 2011 to more than four million articles today, through the goodwill of volunteers worldwide and [...]
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Posted in planning on Sep 6th, 2012
There’s a new term for nature’s ecological services: Green Infrastructure. These green systems are beginning to replace “gray” systems in cities like Seattle. Green infrastructure can be restored wetlands, rooftop gardens, or permeable pavement that trap and filter pollutants before water flows into streams and rivers and is carried to bays and estuaries. A recent [...]
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