In 1958, Clipperton Island was a very different place from the huge seabird colony it would later become. The tiny Pacific atoll had once supported thousands of breeding birds, but decades of human occupation had left a heavy mark. Feral pigs, introduced when people settled on the island, had multiplied and were feeding on land…
Excavator installing a fish lunker on Ford Cove. Credit: Ford House A major environmental restoration project is removing decades of artificial concrete shoreline defences along Michigan’s Lake St. Clair and replacing them with natural wetlands, living shorelines and fish habitat.The $7 million project at the historic Edsel and Eleanor Ford Estate is transforming more than…
Drift Creek Unit of Siletz Bay National Wildlife (Image Credit: Wikipedia) Oregon’s Siletz Bay is undergoing a major wetland restoration effort this summer, with crews working to bring back natural tidal flows to land that was dramatically altered by more than a century of diking and land conversion. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife…
For decades, quarries have been places where the landscape was deliberately cut, blasted and reshaped for industry. Rock was extracted, hillsides were carved away and deep pits were left behind once the material was no longer economically useful. But when the machinery finally stops, the story of a quarry does not necessarily end.Across the world,…
Aerial view of Lady Elliot Island. Image credits: Wikimedia Commons. In 1969, when pilot Don Adams set foot on Lady Elliot Island for the first time, he saw very little of the tropical paradise visitors know today. The coral cay at the southern tip of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef had been stripped almost bare after…
Itanagar: Volunteers removed more than 5,200 kg of garbage from the Yagamso river during a clean-up drive at IG Park here on Saturday as part of preparations for the 80th Independence Day.The drive was spearheaded by the Youth Mission for Clean River (YMCR) and the Abralow Memorial Multipurpose Society, with support from the Itanagar Smart…
The Supreme Court building in Delhi Jaipur: In an order aimed at restoring the polluted Jojari-Bandi-Luni river system, Supreme Court Friday directed Rajasthan govt to constitute an integrated coordination group within seven days, establish an independent river commission, prepare a comprehensive resolution plan within three weeks, and launch a QR code-based public grievance mechanism for…
Amit Kumar reviews progress of the proposed Dadumajra biogas plant with IOCL representatives Chandigarh: The environment standing committee of the UT administrator’s advisory council Thursday visited the reclaimed Dadumajra dumping ground to review plantation, environmental restoration and maintenance works being carried out by the municipal corporation (MC).Led by chairman Gian Chand Gupta, the committee assessed…
In a unique trial in Costa Rica, researchers utilised coffee pulp to rejuvenate damaged pastures, leading to fascinating results. The organic by-product significantly enhanced soil fertility, prompting a notable increase in woody plants. Image Credits: Google Gemini (Representative Image ) An abandoned cattle pasture in southern Costa Rica hosted an unusual restoration experiment in 2018….
Musi Jan Andolan seeks rejection of green nod for riverfront project Hyderabad: A citizens’ group opposing the Musi riverfront development project has urged the State-Level Expert Appraisal Committee (SEAC) to reject environmental clearance for phase 1A and phase 1B, alleging that the project has drifted away from ecological restoration and become heavily focused on road…
