England’s Churches Make An Uneasy Peace With The Bats In Their Belfries
"A £5m project is helping more than 100 historic churches deal with the damage caused by bat colonies".
Source: Guardian, 10/11/2023
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"A Legal Victory for the (Very) Little Guys"
"A new court settlement will put the Environmental Protection Agency on track to regulate pesticides more tightly."
"Call it a win for the little species, though all kinds of endangered animals and plants stand to benefit.
A sweeping legal settlement approved this week has put the Environmental Protection Agency on a binding path to do something it has barely done before, by its own acknowledgment: Adequately consider the effects on imperiled species when it evaluates pesticides and take steps to protect them.
Source: NYTimes, 09/15/2023
"‘Zombie Trout’ Unsettle Montana, Long a Fly-Fishing Mecca"
"Since the Fellin family founded the Big Hole Lodge in the 1980s to take people fly fishing on the Big Hole River, they have seen significant changes to the cobble-and-boulder-studded freestone trout stream."
Source: NYTimes, 09/13/2023
Red Fire Ant Colonies Found In Italy Could Spread Across Europe: Study
"An invasive non-native ant species has become established in Italy and could rapidly spread through Europe to the UK with global heating, a study warns."
Source: Guardian, 09/12/2023
"Invasive Species Costing World Billions A Year, UN Warns"
"From rats to fire ants, invasive creatures are threatening local ecosystems. Influenced by global trade and climate change, they are pushing native species to the brink."
Source: DW, 09/07/2023
Climate Change May Force More Farmers And Ranchers To Costly Irrigation
"The Texas ranch where Gilda Jackson trains and sells horses has been plagued by grasshoppers this year, a problem that only gets worse when the hatch quickens in times of heat and drought."
Source: AP, 08/24/2023
EPA Sued Over Pesticide-Coated Seeds’ ‘Devastating Impacts’ On US Wildlife
"Environmental groups are suing the US Environmental Protection Agency over pesticide-coated seeds they say have “devastating environmental impacts” and are spread largely without regulatory oversight."
Source: Guardian, 06/12/2023
Making Shift Happen: Momentum for New Thinking About River Restoration
"An unconventional gathering helped spur ideas to speed the pace and scale of river restoration projects across the West."
Source: The Revelator, 05/10/2023
"Climate-Hit Wetlands Lay Bare Britain's Biodiversity Struggle"
"As seagulls circled above and tourists watched in confusion, Duncan Holmes steered his boat through thousands of dead fish bobbing at the surface of the River Thurne in east England."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 05/03/2023
"US Plans New Forest Protections, Issues Old-Growth Inventory"
"The Biden administration has identified more than 175,000 square miles (453,000 square kilometers) of old growth and mature forests on U.S. government land and plans to craft a new rule to better protect the nation’s woodlands from fires, insects and other side effects of climate change, federal officials planned to announce Thursday."
Source: AP, 04/20/2023
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