Recreation

Pesticide Chemical Spill Kills Tens of Thousands of Fish in Virginia

File photo via Jason Mintzner/Shutterstock, via Alternet.org The agricultural industry’s chemical purveyors, Monsanto included, pride themselves on being “sustainable,” but…

7 years ago

Large algae bloom forms on Lake Okeechobee, could repeat 2016

(Above) A diagram from 2016 shows water flow in South Florida. (Allen Eyestone / The Palm Beach Post) Florida’s freshwater…

7 years ago

Meat industry blamed for largest-ever ‘dead zone’ in Gulf of Mexico

The global meat industry, already implicated in driving global warming and deforestation, has now been blamed for fueling what is…

7 years ago

Getting to clean water: Complex problem, no easy solutions

photo: Friends of the Mississippi River executive director Whitney Clark pours water from the Mississippi River into a tube used…

7 years ago

Watering Your Garden in the Summer

Q&A with Maureen Taylor, Professional Gardener For gardening in arid zones Under the canopy of a California Friendly garden, I…

7 years ago

Pennsylvania DEP staffers warned superiors of dangers to private water wells from pipeline construction

A Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection official waved a red flag to higher ups in January over potential issues with…

7 years ago

Toxic Lake: The Untold Story of Lake Okeechobee

Click through, below, for an interactive look at the story. https://vimeo.com/194372466 CLEWISTON, Florida – For months during 2016, plumes of…

7 years ago

Exploring Florida — Kayaking the Waccasassa and Wekiva Rivers

Living in Florida we are pretty blessed to be surrounded by water, giving us mulitple oppourtunities to explore. Whether you…

7 years ago

The Annual Beach Report Card 2017 Release

Much-needed winter storms may have relieved California’s historic drought, but all that rain came at some cost – poor beach…

7 years ago

Oregon’s Niagara Falls, Revealed

A viewing area in Snøhetta's design for the new river walk (Courtesy of Snøhetta) It’s a sunny morning at Willamette…

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