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Bulldozer Returns Former Military Base to Tidal Marsh Land
On April 25, California's Coastal Conservancy and the Corps of Engineers took the final step in its restoration of Hamilton Airfield to tidal marsh habitat,...
Water, Wildlife Surge Back into Once-parched Colorado River Delta
Osvel Hinojosa knew that an infusion of water would bring the Colorado River delta back to life. But in just a few days, a...
Restoring Lake Erie’s Largest Wetland After 75 Years
Only around 5 percent of the wetlands in western Lake Erie remain from the days before pollution and dam construction.
Now, a five-year process is...
America’s Biggest Landfill To Become New York’s Largest Solar Project
What was once the largest landfill on the planet is being reinvented to provide solar energy to the citizens of New York City --...
170,000 New Trees Have Rugby Roots in New Zealand
The New Zealand landscape is set to be greened to the tune of 40,000 new trees this year as part of the final stage...
How You Can Help Protect Endangered Frogs
You may have heard that frogs are in trouble, with about a third of the world's species currently threatened by a disease called chytrid...
Bolivia Designates World’s Largest Protected Wetland
The Bolivian government recently created the largest protected wetland in the world – an area bigger than the Netherlands and Belgium combined, more than...
90 Percent of Endangered Species Recovering on Time
A new Center for Biological Diversity analysis of 110 endangered species finds that 90 percent are on track to meet recovery goals set by...
Ducks Near Extinction Hang On, 18 Babies Hatched in Lab
On a remote lake in Madagascar, a fateful discovery of 22 ducks belonging to a variety thought to be extinct, inspired a group of...
The Greening of London’s Olympic Park Includes Clean-up of Toxic Site
London is using its plans for the 2012 Olympic games to revitalize neighborhoods, clean up a polluted industrial site and generate a large urban...
12 of The Greatest Things to Love About America
What makes America great? On this, the 235th birthday of the nation's founding Declaration of Independence, it seems like a question we need to...
Texas Wetland Restoration Could be Model for Gulf
Partially bankrolled by a $1 billion fund set up by BP after the oil spill, a project to restore lost wetlands off the Texas...
Beaver Patrol: Wildlife Lovers Help Critters Cross Busy Highway
Beavers living near U.S. 2 in Vermont need a traffic cop, Mandy Hotchkiss decided. There’s probably hundreds of beavers living in the wetlands along...
Miracle of Rebirth for Iraqi’s Garden of Eden (Video)
The vast and ancient wetlands between the Tigress and Euphrates rivers in Iraq is considered by some to be the original Garden of Eden.
It...
Cleanup of Toxic Superfund Site Completed in New Jersey
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has successfully completed cleanup work at the Asbestos Dump Superfund site in Morris County, New Jersey, which is adjacent...
Fly-over Shows Progress In Gulf
A recent Coast Guard flight over the site of the exploded BP oil well shows that the thick black swaths of oil have dissipated...
US Cracks Down on Mountaintop Coal-mine Permits
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday it will put the brakes on 79 pending permits for mountaintop removal coal mines in Appalachia because they...
Pakistanis Breaks Guinness Record Planting 500,000 Trees in One Day
A Pakistan team set the Guinness World Record for tree planting, beating India in an international competition this month. Just 300 volunteers from the...
183 Projects Funded for Fish and Wildlife
From the Lower Mississippi River Delta to the North Carolina coast, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will undertake 183 construction projects focused...
‘Miracle Rice’ Gives Uganda Hope of its Own Green Revolution
A new breed of rice that can grow in the drier uplands instead of traditional wetlands has doubled the country's food production in only...