Tag • #wetlands

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We Found a Work Around to Trump Defunding Science

news.movim.eu / TheNewYorkTimes • 22 April

When knowledge is threatened, don’t just mourn it. Build around it.

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E.P.A. Investigations of Severe Pollution Look Increasingly at Risk

news.movim.eu / TheNewYorkTimes • 22 March

The agency will no longer shut down “any stage of energy production,” absent an imminent threat, a new memo says, and will curtail efforts to cut pollution in poorer areas.

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A Story About Salmon That Almost Had a Happy Ending

news.movim.eu / TheNewYorkTimes • 13 March

How tribal leaders, commercial fisherman and a few small environmental groups won an uphill campaign against dams.

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E.P.A. Declares ‘Greatest Day of Deregulation Our Nation Has Seen’

news.movim.eu / TheNewYorkTimes • 12 March

Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, said he would revise or repeal dozens of air, water and climate protections to help industries.

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‘Even the sound of the water has changed’: can Bogotá bring its wetlands back from the brink?

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 13 February

The marshes in Colombia’s capital are sacred to Indigenous peoples, provide vital wildlife habitats and could help the city adapt to climate change. But after centuries of development they are close to collapse

Photographs by Antonio Cascio

Early last year, Bogotá faced a prolonged drought , leading to historically low water levels in reservoirs and forcing Colombia’s authorities to impose water rationing. Then, in November, heavy rains triggered widespread flooding, submerging streets, stranding vehicles and disrupting traffic.

People living in neighbourhoods built over wetlands, such as Suba Rincón, suffered a double impact from these extreme events, that served to underscore the city’s vulnerability to deforestation, El Niño and the climate crisis. In these districts people have been left counting the cost of repeated floods.

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Czech Dam Project Was Stalled by Bureaucracy. Beavers Built Their Own.

news.movim.eu / TheNewYorkTimes • 13 February

The dam project, drafted in 2018 and based on a former military training site south of Prague, had been delayed by land negotiations. Local beavers built several dams, saving the government more than one million euros.