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Making merry: how we brought Melbourne’s Merri Creek back from pollution, neglect and weeds
The Conversation· 4 days agoAs we grapple with bad environmental news every day, we need to tell stories of ecological restoration – to speak of what’s possible, and also what’s not. Merri Creek is not particularly long ...
Exposed to Agent Orange at U.S. bases, veterans face cancer without VA compensation
Chicago Sun-Times· 6 days agoAs a young GI at Fort Ord in Monterey County, California, Dean Osborn spent much of his time in the...
An Update Regarding Efforts To Stop The Sewage Pollution
Coronado Eagle & Journal· 3 days agoThe U.S. IBWC is the agency responsible for the repair and expansion of the sewage treatment plant on the U.S. side of the border that treats the sewage flows from Tijuana, Mexico that regularly ...
As climate change amplifies urban flooding, here’s how communities can become ‘sponge cities’
San Francisco Chronicle· 2 days agoSponge city techniques differ from other stormwater management approaches because they are scaled to much larger storms and need to be applied across nearly all urban surfaces. In response to ...
Norwalk air, water quality is 'safe,' uncontaminated after I-95 truck fire, officials say
The News-Times· 6 days ago“Water quality is safe, there's no boil-water notice in place,” said Alan Huth, SNEW manager. The...
Hundreds of people sue San Diego over January floods, saying it 'absolutely failed' to manage...
U-T San Diego· 1 day agoAfter yearslong battles with the city of San Diego over crumbling stormwater infrastructure in their southeastern San Diego neighborhoods, hundreds of people whose homes and businesses were ...
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The State· 3 days agoThe flow of people into the U.S. over the southwest border has slumped in the first four months of the year by one key metric, according to the Biden administration, which attributed the decline ...
Technology supports Crow Creek cleaning efforts
Wyoming Tribune-Eagle· 7 days agoCrow Creek, which runs through downtown Cheyenne, is designated as an impaired body of water by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, largely...
