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The US built nearly 2,000 km of Mississippi River levees to control floods; the barriers cut sediment off from Louisiana wetlands, helping erase about 4,900 sq km of coastal land
US built nearly 2,000 km of Mississippi River levees to control floods Nearly 2,000 kilometres of…
Nearly 70 years after Tucson’s Santa Cruz River ran dry, 2.8 million gallons of reclaimed water began flowing daily; within 4 months, 37 dragonfly and damselfly species were recorded
damselflyRepresenative image from Canva For much of the 20th century, the Santa Cruz River that winds…
In 2011, up to 30,000 rats were eradicated from Palmyra Atoll; five years later native tree seedlings jumped from fewer than 150 to more than 7,700
In 2011, conservation teams set out on one of the biggest rat eradications ever on a…
A businessman bought a 23,000-acre Scottish sporting estate and spent two decades rewilding it; one million native trees later, red squirrels have been reintroduced
Deep in the Scottish Highlands, a process of regeneration is taking place An English businessman who…
In 2003, Chicago’s mayor sent bulldozers to carve six giant Xs into an airport runway overnight, stranding 16 planes; 12 years later, the former airfield reopened with 40 acres of prairie, wetlands and wildlife habitat
Meigs Field in 1997 (Image Credit: Wikipedia) When Chicago residents woke up on March 31, 2003,…
Michigan’s historic Ford House is replacing concrete shoreline with natural habitat; the $7 million project will restore 1 mile of shore and 17.5 acres of aquatic and wetland habitat
Excavator installing a fish lunker on Ford Cove. Credit: Ford House A major environmental restoration project…
Oregon’s Siletz Bay is restoring 37 acres of tidal wetland this summer, digging new channels where more than a century of diking turned marsh into pasture
Drift Creek Unit of Siletz Bay National Wildlife (Image Credit: Wikipedia) Oregon’s Siletz Bay is undergoing…
Invasive predators nearly erased this Bermuda snail; fewer than 200 survived in an alley in 2014, but a decade later breeders had released over 100,000 and established six wild colonies |
The great Bermuda snail, which was once considered to be lost forever, is now safe and…
Ex-principal’s passion takes root, barren MP hill turns plantation | Bhopal News
Jamli (Mhow): “Forest Man” Jadav Payeng toiled decades to single-handedly turn a once-barren Assam sandbar along…