wetlands
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Florida’s best defense against natural disasters is nature
The key to fighting hurricanes? Just act natural.
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From Glacierless National Park to the Neverglades: Meet your future national parks
The parks are having an identity crisis -- so we renamed them.
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Critical List: Obama to expedite portion of Keystone XL; World Water Day
It’s World Water Day: How much do you use? (The average American household uses 350 gallons. I KNOW.) Obama is set to expedite the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline. The Supreme Court decided that the couple who wants to fight the EPA over whether their property counts as a wetland can go ahead […]
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Critical List: Finding a town to host nuclear waste; 3-D Amazon map
Now that the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage plan has been scrapped, a nuclear commission needs to find a town that wants to host the repository. Transocean isn’t legally responsible for some of the pollution from the Deepwater Horizon spill. Scientists mapped the Amazon in 3-D. The plan for protecting New Orleans from hurricanes requires […]
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A Farmville-style game that helps save wetlands
This student-created Farmville-type game benefits real wetlands conservation groups.
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Critical List: Global warming — it's happening; Exxon funds climate deniers
In case you hadn’t heard … the world is warming up.
Exxon just can't quit climate deniers.
The Supreme Court thinks that the EPA must regulate carbon under the Clean Air Act; now it will decide if it can regulate wetlands on private property under the Clean Water Act. -
Salt of the earth: Environmentalists and urbanists collide in San Francisco Bay [UPDATED]
In a collection of salt evaporation ponds tucked between a freeway, a sleepy little marina, and the headquarters of Dreamworks Animation, the San Francisco Bay’s ecological future hangs in the balance. The ponds themselves look deceptively blank: Vast flat rectangles of shallow water once used by Cargill to produce salt, the two-and-a-quarter square miles are […]
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Unintended Consequences of Government Policies: The Depletion of America’s Wetlands
Private land-use decisions can be affected dramatically by public investments in highways, waterways, flood control, or other infrastructure. The large movement of jobs from central cities to suburbs in the postwar United States and the ongoing destruction of Amazon rain forests have occurred with major public investment in supporting infrastructure. As these examples suggest, private […]