10 New Specialty Plates for Indiana Drivers
10 New Specialty Plates for Indiana Drivers
New specialty license plates will soon be available for various Hoosier drivers, including environmentalists, soccer players, and military families.
Read more on FOX 7 WTVW Evansville
Country has now detailed maps of its wetlands
Country has now detailed maps of its wetlands
New Delhi, Jun 11: In what will greatly help efforts for conservation of lands, the Space Applications Centre (SAC) of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has prepared National Wetland Atlas and State Wetland Atlases, which were released here by the Ministry of Environment and Forests this week.
Read more on New Kerala
WATERSHED EFFORT
WATERSHED EFFORT
PETALING JAYA: The lake in Taman Tasik Bandaran Kelana Jaya, which once emitted a foul stench due to pollution, has improved from rehabilitation efforts, with the involvement of the community.
Read more on New Straits Times
Vienna teen’s painting featured as duck stamp
Vienna teen’s painting featured as duck stamp
A Vienna, Illinois teen’s painting will be featured as a duck stamp for the 2011 Federal Junior Duck Stamp.
Read more on KFVS 12 Cape Girardeau
Holiday village plan for golf course site
Holiday village plan for golf course site
The former Marsh Farm site. LAND near Brading earmarked as a golf course could be transformed into a multi-million pound eco-friendly holiday village with an adjoining nature reserve.
Read more on Isle of Wight County Press
US Fish & Wildlife designating protected area for snails, shrimp
US Fish & Wildlife designating protected area for snails, shrimp
SANTA FE — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated approximately 520 acres in southern New Mexico and West Texas as protected habitat for three endangered snails and a freshwater shrimp.
Read more on Carlsbad Current-Argus
Sussex Wildlife Charity helps rare bats and otters to return to Uckfield
Sussex Wildlife Charity helps rare bats and otters to return to Uckfield
A WILDLIFE charity is hoping to encourage the return of rare bats and otters to their natural habitat – thanks to a £5000 donation. Sussex Wildlife Trust is making improvements to flood plain woodland habitats along the River Ouse at Sheffield Park Gardens near Uckfield.
Read more on Sussex Express
EPA awarding $76 million for cleanups in 40 states
EPA awarding $76 million for cleanups in 40 states
Federal grants will help clean up and redevelop 214 polluted sites such as abandoned gas stations and shuttered factories in…
Read more on Deseret News
More funds for ailing Murray in SA
More funds for ailing Murray in SA
The SA and federal governments will spend $86.7 million to cut evaporative losses from the River Murray.
Read more on BigPond News
Will ag tiling destroy prairie duck hatchery?
Will ag tiling destroy prairie duck hatchery?
Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series in which the Register studies a major increase in Brookings County drain tiling requests, and how this practice is seen as necessary for continued agricultural success but raises concerns for the future of wetland birds in South Dakota.
Read more on Brookings Daily Register
