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Aral Be There Aral Sea coming back to life after decades of draining damage		07 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Aral Be There Aral Sea coming back to life after decades of draining damage The dramatic diminution and pollution of Central Asia's Aral Sea is one of the 20th century's most stunning eco-disasters -- but its restoration may become an eco-miracle of the 21st. Since the World Bank's $85.8 million Kok-Aral Dam project began in 2001, the Aral has regained millions of cubic feet of water. Long-abandoned v ...
Topics: Aral Sea, environmental restoration, news, World Bank (all these topics)

Foresight Is 20/20 Researchers identify 20 future conservation battlegrounds		08 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Foresight Is 20/20 Researchers identify 20 future conservation battlegrounds The soldiers of conservation have been given their marching orders. (Ah, martial metaphors ... never can get the hang of them.) A new study has identified 20 future conservation battlegrounds around the world, from Alaska's far north to the southern tip of the Australian island of Tasmania -- hotspots where land-mammal species aren't yet endangered ...
Topics: environmental restoration, news (all these topics)

Great Expectations Big Great Lakes cleanup plan gets an OK, but no federal funds		13 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
Great Expectations Big Great Lakes cleanup plan gets an OK, but no federal funds U.S. EPA administrator Stephen Johnson and a bipartisan coalition of Midwestern lawmakers and officials approved a 15-year strategy to restore the Great Lakes on Monday. But the Bush administration says it won't fund the plan, which may cost up to $20 billion. The strategy to pull the lakes back from imminent ecologica ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Great Lakes, news, politics (all these topics)

The Good News Bears Pandas seem to be recovering in the wild		14 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
The Good News Bears Pandas seem to be recovering in the wild We're not like those panda fetishists who flip out about the cute, cuddly black-and-white bears, with their snoogly faces and their roly-poly schnugum wugums ... wait, where were we? Anyway, we've got some good news for panda fans: A recent census found almost 1,600 giant pandas in the wild, well up from an estimated 1,000 in the 1980s. It might just be ...
Topics: environmental restoration, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Claws and Effects How a plan to return big beasts to North America raised hackles and hopes	Josh Donlan	08 Nov 2005	Soapbox

Topics: environmental restoration, wildlife (all these topics)

Death Waits for No Mangrove Alfredo Quarto, founder of Mangrove Action Project, answers readers' questions		07 Oct 2005	InterActivist
Alfredo Quarto, head of Mangrove Action Project. Where do mangroves naturally grow?�� -- Loie Hayes, Boston, Mass. Mangroves grow in the tropical and subtropical intertidal zones of sheltered bays and river mouths. These complex ecosystems are found between the latitudes of 32 degrees north and 38 degrees south, along the tropical coasts of Africa, Australia, Asia, and the Amer ...
Topics: environmental restoration, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Man's Inhumanity to Mangrove Alfredo Quarto, head of Mangrove Action Project, answers Grist's questions		03 Oct 2005	InterActivist
Alfredo Quarto. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I am executive director and cofounder of the Mangrove Action Project. What does your organization do? MAP is dedicated to reversing the degradation of mangrove-forest ecosystems worldwide. We promote the rights of local coastal peoples, including fishers and farmers, and encourage community-based, sustainable ...
Topics: environmental restoration, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Fear, Kitty Kitty Kitty Humans struggle to live peacefully with beasties		22 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Fear, Kitty Kitty Kitty Humans struggle to live peacefully with beasties Large carnivores have made impressive comebacks in some parts of the U.S. Now the question is how humans can live with them in harmony. In Oregon, after cougars were hunted to near-extinction, voters banned the practice of hunting with radio-collared dogs. The state's big-cat population has since jumped from about 3,000 to 5,000 -- but compla ...
Topics: environmental restoration, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Herp, Herp, Hooray! Conservation groups unveil $404 million plan to aid planet's amphibians		20 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Herp, Herp, Hooray! Conservation groups unveil $404 million plan to aid planet's amphibians Amphibians are having a rough time of it, and by "rough," we mean terrifically bad. Nearly a third of all amphibian species worldwide are believed to be at risk of extinction, with some 122 already suspected of having died off in the last 25 years or so. Fortunately, emergency assistance for the critters that are ...
Topics: environmental restoration, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Born to Rewild Conservationists propose bringing elephants to U.S., bears to U.K.		23 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Born to Rewild Conservationists propose bringing elephants to U.S., bears to U.K. Imagine: lions and elephants roaming free across the same Great Plains of the U.S. that their ancestors -- big cats, mastodons, and mammoths -- populated 13,000 years ago. That's the "Pleistocene Park" vision that a group of conservation scientists proposed in the journal Nature last week. Since people are increasingly leav ...
Topics: environmental restoration, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Breaking a Bad Habitat More problems uncovered with habitat conservation plans		05 May 2005	Daily Grist
Breaking a Bad Habitat More problems uncovered with habitat conservation plans The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has published parts two and three of its special series on habitat conservation plans (HCPs) and, suffice to say, the story didn't get any cheerier after part one. A proposed 9.1 million-acre HCP in Washington -- which would cover the bulk of the state's private forestland -- promise ...
Topics: California, environmental restoration, news, Texas, Washington (all these topics)

Tit for Habitat Habitat conservation plans poorly monitored, sporadically effective		03 May 2005	Daily Grist
Tit for Habitat Habitat conservation plans poorly monitored, sporadically effective Today, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer kicks off a big three-day series on the increasingly ubiquitous but nonetheless poorly understood and poorly monitored phenomenon of habitat conservation plans (HCPs). Congress authorized the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to administer such plans in 1982, but it wasn't until the late '90s that ...
Topics: environmental restoration, news, politics (all these topics)

There Is a Lord God Woodpecker thought extinct rediscovered; birders weep like babies		29 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
There Is a Lord God Woodpecker thought extinct rediscovered; birders weep like babies It was spotted several times -- once even filmed -- over the past year and a half. Now, ornithologists writing in the journal Science have officially confirmed the existence of at least one ivory-billed woodpecker, a miraculously tangible token of a species long thought extinct. The discovery -- referred to variously a ...
Topics: Arkansas, environmental restoration, news, wildlife (all these topics)

You Just Keep on Pushing My Love Over the Borderline Former Iron Curtain may become continent-spanning greenbelt		28 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
You Just Keep on Pushing My Love Over the Borderline Former Iron Curtain may become continent-spanning greenbelt The fabled Iron Curtain that separated Western Europe from the communist countries of Eastern Europe was once one of the most dangerous places on earth. But in the post-Cold War era, a coalition of conservation and community-development groups has ambitious plans to transform it into a string of p ...
Topics: environmental restoration, European Union, news (all these topics)

Who's Minding the Restore? Ecosystem restoration is booming business, only getting boominger		08 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Who's Minding the Restore? Ecosystem restoration is booming business, only getting boominger One positive side effect of polluting and despoiling the planet is that somebody stands to make money cleaning it up. (Hey, our glass is half full!) And sure enough, ecological restoration is a booming business. Viewed narrowly, as attempts to restore natural resources to something approximating their original condition -- ...
Topics: business, environmental restoration, news (all these topics)

Bog Bites Man Everglades restoration stagnating after five years		28 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Bog Bites Man Everglades restoration stagnating after five years Restoration of the Florida Everglades is, well, a bit bogged down, according to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers internal memo. Written by Everglades project manager Gary Hardesty, the memo was addressed to Army Corps colleagues preparing to write a five-year update on the 30-year restoration plans. Hardesty noted that the unde ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, environmental restoration, Florida, news (all these topics)

Nobel of the Ball Kenyan eco-activist Wangari Maathai wins Nobel Peace Prize	Geoffrey Dabelko	08 Oct 2004	Main Dish
Wangari Maathai with good reason to smile. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. It is a small room for such a momentous decision. And it's made even smaller by the impressive portraits of past winners lining the walls, listening in on the secret deliberations of the Nobel Peace Prize committee. Amidst the daily drumbeat of war stories, the committee hatched a wonderful surprise in tha ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Kenya (all these topics)

Group Hug Environmental Cooperation Bringing Hostile Nations Together		04 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Group Hug Environmental Cooperation Bringing Hostile Nations Together Frustrated by the glacial pace and pestersome bureaucracy of major international treaties and conventions, a new generation of environmental activists is turning its focus to "environmental peacekeeping": local, grassroots efforts to forge cooperation on ecosystem preservation among neighboring nations with a history of conflict. Activists sa ...
Topics: environmental restoration, politics (all these topics)

Missouri Loves Company New Missouri River Management Plan Sparks Protest		01 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Missouri Loves Company New Missouri River Management Plan Sparks Protest A massive new plan to manage the Missouri River, released by the Army Corps of Engineers on Friday, managed to please exactly nobody, in keeping with the tenor of 15 years of debate over the future of the "Big Muddy." Conservation groups immediately protested and filed lawsuits, saying the plan i ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Missouri River, placemaking, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Got to Admit It's Getting Bettors Bettors Will Get a Chance to Help Save Albatrosses		12 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Got to Admit It's Getting Bettors Bettors Will Get a Chance to Help Save Albatrosses A well-known bookie is teaming up with enviros in a creative effort to help save albatrosses, sea birds that are increasingly threatened by a fishing technique called longlining, which involves the use of tens of thousands of baited hooks dragged behind trawlers for 60 miles or more. Conservationists ...
Topics: Africa, Australia, environmental restoration, United Kingdom, wildlife (all these topics)

Snoop Doggy Doggs Robotic Dogs Sniff Out Environmental Toxins		10 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Snoop Doggy Doggs Robotic Dogs Sniff Out Environmental Toxins Engineers at Yale have developed robotic dogs that can sniff out environmental toxins at contaminated sites. The mechanical critters were originally designed and marketed as toys by Sony and other companies, but an intrepid crew at Yale modified the robo-puppies with sensors that de ...
Topics: Australia, Belarus, East Coast, environmental restoration, Idaho, nuclear power, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Greensylvania		05 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Greensylvania Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) unveiled a $22 billion state budget yesterday with numerous eco-friendly provisions that promise to protect green space, return abandoned mine sites to productive use, improve state parks, and revitalize aging city centers, asserting that such measures would spur economic development. Enviros hailed the budget, saying it would make ...
Topics: environmental restoration, green living, Pennsylvania, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Chromium and Punishment New Jersey Wins $17 Million Settlement in Chromium Case		13 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Chromium and Punishment New Jersey Wins $17 Million Settlement in Chromium Case A 20-year battle over chromium pollution in northern New Jersey came to an end yesterday when three companies agreed to pony up $17 million to clean hundreds of sites contaminated by the deadly chemical. From the 1890s to the ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental restoration, land degradation, New Jersey, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, wetlands (all these topics)

Glade Tidings Judge Agrees to Appoint Expert to Oversee Everglades Cleanup		30 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Glade Tidings Judge Agrees to Appoint Expert to Oversee Everglades Cleanup Dealing a blow to both Bush administrations (that is, G.W. in the White House and Jeb in Florida), a federal judge agreed late yesterday to appoint an expert to monitor the $8 billion restoration and cleanup of the Everglades. Environmentalists and a Native American tribe had asked for such an appointment, but government agencies and the ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Florida, politics (all these topics)

Judge Dread After 15 Years, Judge Is Removed From Everglades Case		24 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Judge Dread After 15 Years, Judge Is Removed From Everglades Case A federal judge who presided over the legal ins and outs of the Florida Everglades restoration project was removed yesterday after 15 years on the case. U.S District Judge William Hoeveler was dismissed after he called Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's (R) Everglades bill "clearly defective" and suggested that the governor had been "misled b ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Florida, politics (all these topics)

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