Monday, October 31, 2016
H2O Innovation bags three wastewater treatment contracts
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Xylem secures contract for wastewater treatment project in India
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Modern Water secures order commitments in Asia Pacific region
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USDA to enhance water quality in southeast Iowa
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CH2M’s contract renews to maintain Traverse City Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant in Michigan
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Strong link between atmospheric forcing, deep convection, ocean ventilation and anthropogenic carbon sequestration
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Sunday, October 30, 2016
Maharashtra government orders probe into destruction of BKC mangroves - Mid-Day
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Maharashtra government orders probe into destruction of BKC mangroves
Mid-Day It took only 14 days, but the state government is taking serious cognisance of the issue raised by mid-day about the destruction of mangroves near BKC, right under the Mangroves Cell's nose, and asked its high-level monitoring committee to look into ... |
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Mangroves hacked near Mansarovar during festive holidays - Times of India
Mangroves hacked near Mansarovar during festive holidays
Times of India Navi Mumbai: Taking advantage of the ongoing festive holidays, when most of the government offices remain closed, a group of unknown men was seen trying to hack mangroves along the coast close to Mansarovar railway station. A few alert citizens and ... and more » |
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Endangered trumpeter swans make estuary trail home - Squamish Chief
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Endangered trumpeter swans make estuary trail home
Squamish Chief A relaxing walk through old-growth forest, Swan Trail is nearly two kilometres leading north out of the central portion of the Squamish Estuary. It runs along the east side of Crescent Slough, an old channel of the Squamish River. Roots and blind ... |
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Saturday, October 29, 2016
Almost 1000 sq m of mangroves have been poisoned and cut down on Russell Island. - Queensland Country Life
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Almost 1000 sq m of mangroves have been poisoned and cut down on Russell Island.
Queensland Country Life MORE than 100 mangrove trees have been poisoned, cut down and lopped on Russell Island, prompting the state government to threaten major fines. Southern Moreton Bay Island Coastcare group secretary Jettie Berkhout said it was time for Redland City ... |
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Keep It Green: Mangroves a vital eco-system component - Phuket Gazette
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Keep It Green: Mangroves a vital eco-system component
Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Coral reefs attract far more publicity than mangrove swamps. After all, coral is spectacularly beautiful, and affords protection to some of the world's most spectacular fishes – clown fish, parrot fish, wrasse and literally hundreds of other ... and more » |
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Anchovy management model considers human activities on Guadalquivir estuary - FIS
Anchovy management model considers human activities on Guadalquivir estuary
FIS First, the study analyzes the main sectors' activity with influence on Guadalquivir estuary, as it is the place where this species breeds and develops during the early stages of life. In this sense, what is described is the way in which agriculture ... |
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See how Arctic sea ice is losing its bulwark against warming summers
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Fisherfolks in Siargao afraid to venture in mangrove areas after giant crocodile found dead - Minda News
Fisherfolks in Siargao afraid to venture in mangrove areas after giant crocodile found dead
Minda News SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews / 29 Oct) – A day after a big crocodile was found dead in Del Carmen town in Siargao Island, several fishermen from the island have been afraid to venture out in the mangrove forest to fish, a village official said. Ezperanza ... and more » |
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Workshop on mangroves ecosystem - The Nation
Workshop on mangroves ecosystem
The Nation KARACHI - A half-day training workshop was organised by IUCN Pakistan under its project “Restoration and Rehabilitation of Mangroves Ecosystem along the Coasts of Pakistan” at Korangi Fish Harbor with the objective to sensitise the local community and ... |
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Friday, October 28, 2016
Medway celebrates as Boris Johnson's Thames Estuary airport plans are grounded by transport secretary Chris Grayling - Kent News
Medway celebrates as Boris Johnson's Thames Estuary airport plans are grounded by transport secretary Chris Grayling
Kent News Plans for an airport in the Thames Estuary appear to have finally been quashed once and for all as the government this week backed proposals for a third runway at Heathrow. Foreign secretary Boris Johnson has long campaigned for an airport, notoriously ... |
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Researchers: Rising ocean may transform Lower Columbia into 'inland sea' - Chinook Observer
Researchers: Rising ocean may transform Lower Columbia into 'inland sea'
Chinook Observer A warming climate and rising ocean will push seawater farther upstream in the Columbia River estuary. By the year 2100, the estuary will see enormous changes in the type and amount of habitat that is now used for salmon and, in the worst-case scenario, ... |
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Land sharks hack large patch of mangroves in Navi Mumbai - Times of India
Land sharks hack large patch of mangroves in Navi Mumbai
Times of India Navi Mumbai: Taking advantage of the festival season when several government offices remain closed, an unidentified gang hacked mangroves near Mansarovar railway station on Thursday evening. A few alert citizens and environmentalists, who noticed it, ... and more » |
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Early Pacific seafarers likely latched onto El Nino, other climate patterns
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Conundrum of missing iron in oxygen minimum zones solved
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Microplastics in agricultural soils: A reason to worry?
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Work starts on new link to Exe Estuary Trail - Exmouth Journal
Work starts on new link to Exe Estuary Trail
Exmouth Journal “The path has been carefully planned to allow people easier access to the countryside within the setting of the beautiful Exe Estuary and a working farm. “The work has been chosen to reflect [former Lower Halsdon Farm owner] Stanley Long's wish for the ... |
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Thursday, October 27, 2016
From luxury cars to mangroves: What state associations are using BCCI money for - Daily News & Analysis
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From luxury cars to mangroves: What state associations are using BCCI money for
Daily News & Analysis Ever since the Justice RM Lodha Panel has hinted at an audit of all the Indian Cricket Board's state associations after being green lighted by the Supreme Court ruling, the Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) has maintained a surprising silence. If top sources ... and more » |
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Estuary would be a cesspool - The Olympian
Estuary would be a cesspool
The Olympian But the estuary that he would replace the lake with would resemble a cesspool. During spring and summer, the lowest tides occur during daylight business-, recreation-, and tourism hours. The exposed marine mud generates “rotten egg” hydrogen sulfide gas. |
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Fishermen in kilifi net cash and more fish from Protecting mangroves - The Star, Kenya
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Fishermen in kilifi net cash and more fish from Protecting mangroves
The Star, Kenya For fishing communities in Kenya's South Coast, felling mangrove trees to make boats has long been a part of life. But traditional attitudes toward the mangroves are shifting, as communities become aware of a new benefit from keeping the trees standing ... |
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County takes over mangrove management - YourObserver.com
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County takes over mangrove management
YourObserver.com Siesta Key resident David Thomas bought his home on the Grand Canal in 1992. It came complete with waterfront views and space for a dock. Twenty-four years later, instead of a dock, he has mangroves abutting his back porch. He doesn't mind, and he ... |
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Knysna estuary safe for all to enjoy - Citizen
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Knysna estuary safe for all to enjoy
Citizen With summer knocking on the door, the Knysna municipality assures residents and visitors to Greater Knysna that its estuary, vleilands and lagoons are safe for recreational purposes – despite the Ashmead Channel (between Loerie Park and Thesen Island) ... |
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'Farming' bacteria to boost growth in the oceans
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Forest official probing Kapil Sharma over destruction of mangroves transferred - Hindustan Times
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Forest official probing Kapil Sharma over destruction of mangroves transferred
Hindustan Times The forest official investigating the alleged destruction of mangroves by comedian-actor Kapil Sharma and 60 similar cases in SV Patel Nagar of Andheri (West), has been transferred. The state government on Tuesday night transferred former assistant ... and more » |
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Arctic found to play unexpectedly large role in removing nitrogen
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Why does our planet experience an ice age every 100,000 years?
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MMRDA asked to undo eco damage - Mumbai Mirror
MMRDA asked to undo eco damage
Mumbai Mirror In a recent hearing, the National Green Tribunal, while slamming the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority for destroying mangroves at Bandra Kurla Complex, asked the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority to start an ... |
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Prepare for tri-estuary fishing - Bega District News
Prepare for tri-estuary fishing
Bega District News The Tri-Estuary Challenge fishing competition run by the Merimbula Big Game & Lakes Angling Club is back bigger and better, with more fish species, more estuaries and more prizes. It will run from November 18 to 20. Competition organiser David Dulhunty ... |
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Tri-estuary fishing nears - Eden Magnet
Tri-estuary fishing nears
Eden Magnet Competition organiser David Dulhunty said there will be first and second place prizes for ten different species of estuary fish. The feature prize will be a whopping $1,000 cash for the longest Bream, followed by $500 cash for the longest Dusky Flathead. |
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Digging Deep column: Terminal puts estuary at risk - Richmond News
Digging Deep column: Terminal puts estuary at risk
Richmond News Port of Vancouver, with its self-granted “supremacy” over Metro Vancouver and the ALR, recently changed its name from Port Metro Vancouver — but kept its ways. They're not so great for our island city and estuary, the Fraser River Estuary. That's a ... |
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Anchovy management model considers human activities on Guadalquivir estuary - FIS
Anchovy management model considers human activities on Guadalquivir estuary
FIS First, the study analyzes the main sectors' activity with influence on Guadalquivir estuary, as it is the place where this species breeds and develops during the early stages of life. In this sense, what is described is the way in which agriculture ... |
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Cockle pickers filmed at Adur Estuary in West Sussex - BBC News - BBC News
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Cockle pickers filmed at Adur Estuary in West Sussex - BBC News
BBC News Illegal cockle picking on a large scale is taking place at a protected site in West Sussex, the BBC finds. |
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Boris Johnson continues to bang drum for Thames Estuary airport as government backs Heathrow expansion - Kent News
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Boris Johnson continues to bang drum for Thames Estuary airport as government backs Heathrow expansion
Kent News Foreign secretary Boris Johnson has again signalled his desire to see an airport built in the Thames Estuary, despite the government today backing plans for a third runway at Heathrow. The former Mayor of London has long campaigned for an airport, ... Heathrow cleared for new runway - government confirms long-awaited announcementKent Online Theresa May tried to wipe her Heathrow opposition from history and failed spectacularlyMirror.co.uk UK wants to raze 783 London homes to expand Heathrow airportThe San Diego Union-Tribune KSL.com all 833 news articles » |
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These clever concrete defense pods double as mangrove planters (Video) - Treehugger
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These clever concrete defense pods double as mangrove planters (Video)
Treehugger We know that mangroves are essential to our coastal ecosystems. Not only do they provide protection from erosion, these hardy trees also offer a safe habitat for a variety of wildlife, and apparently sequester a lot of carbon too. But due to the world ... |
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Ira Dyer, professor emeritus of ocean engineering, dies at 91
Ira Dyer, professor emeritus of ocean engineering, died peacefully at his home on Oct. 9 at the age of 91.
Dyer’s distinguished career, with a specialty in acoustics, spanned over six decades. His seminal research had profound impacts in the fields of aeroacoustics, structural acoustics, and underwater acoustics.
Dyer was a valued educator and mentor for many students who are now prominent scientists, and he served as head of MIT's Department of Ocean Engineering (which later merged with the Department of Mechanical Engineering) for 10 years. He also served as president of the Acoustical Society of America and on numerous committees, blue ribbon panels, and advisory boards for government agencies and research companies.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1925, Dyer was the son of Frieda and Charles Dyer, who immigrated to the United States after being forced to flee the Pale of Settlement region of Russia. Dyer thrived as a student at Brooklyn Tech, where his scientific interests were nurtured. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II, and studied at MIT under the GI bill following the war, receiving his PhD in physics in 1954. In 1949 Dyer married his sweetheart, Betty Schanberg of Clinton, Massachusetts. They were happily married for 68 years.
After his graduate studies, Dyer joined Bolt, Beranek, and Newman Inc., now BBN Technologies. He was hired by Leo Beranek, who would later say that Dyer was one of the three most important people responsible for the success of the company. In one of his first projects, Dyer designed, built, and tested an ultrasonic brain scanner. This system was intended to use active sonar to find brain tumors, and Dyer himself was the first person to undergo an ultrasonic brain scan. The system ended up only measuring bone thickness, but it paved the way for the ultrasonic scanners currently used in cardiology and gynecology.
Dyer later led others in an applied research division that investigated all aspects of sound and vibration in complex structures such as ships, submarines, aircraft, and spacecraft, which resulted in many publications in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA). During the mid 1950s, Dyer helped design the U.S. Navy X-1 submarine, a small four-person diesel-electric sub with a very quiet radiated noise mission. He designed an innovative "triple-stage isolation" engine-mounting system that significantly quieted the vehicle, allowing the submarine to pass sound restrictions. The isolation concept led the way for the U.S. Navy to develop ultraquiet submarines, which provided significant advantages for U.S. submarine operations during the Cold War.
In 1960, the Acoustical Society of America honored Dyer’s early work with its Biennial Award, a recognition to scientists under 35 for their outstanding contributions to acoustics.
In 1971, Dyer became head of the MIT Department of Ocean Engineering, which eventually merged with the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2005. At its helm, he led the department into new areas of ocean engineering that emphasized learning about the ocean environment. Later, Dyer was named the Weber-Shaughness Professor of Ocean Engineering. His expertise and graduate course in ocean acoustics were legendary; he was a consummate professor, both as a lecturer and one-on-one, with a clarity that inspired his students.
In July of 1973, Dyer became director of the Sea Grant Program at MIT. Under his leadership, the Sea Grant Program, created to stimulate research and wise use of the oceans, became a model program, and was widely emulated. Dyer also nurtured other new subjects in ocean acoustics, especially in conjunction with the MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program. For many years Dyer played a major role in advising, researching, and designing anti-submarine warfare systems for the Navy, keeping our nation safe during the Cold War.
Dyer made many seminal contributions to acoustics that were published in JASA. His article on the scintillation of ocean ambient noise is still one of the most cited today, as are his significant contributions to structural acoustics, reverberation, and propagation of sound in the sea. The programs Dyer established in these technical areas were international in scope.
Beginning in 1978, Dyer led and participated in six Arctic field programs. The first, the Canadian Basin Arctic Reverberation Experiment, imaged the entire Arctic basin with acoustics, providing evidence of seamounts. He and his students developed a taxonomy of ice noise events that has been fundamental for understanding Arctic noise. In the 1990s, Dyer resumed his research on structural acoustics that influenced contemporary submarine designs: He contributed to one high-level Navy technical advisory committee that led to the contemporary submarine sonar signal-processing suite.
Dyer was a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers; a member of the National Academy of Engineering; and a visiting fellow of Emmanuel College at Cambridge University. He was the recipient of many awards and honors in his long and distinguished career; in 1996 he was awarded the Per Bruel Gold Medal by the Acoustical Society of America, its highest honor.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Dyer and his wife, Betty, worked with the organization Action of Soviet Jewry to help place Soviet refugees in appropriate jobs, and they also sponsored a newly arrived family. Dyer was also a longtime philanthropist, with gifts benefiting medical research, the arts, community causes, MIT, and Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.
As an independent research consultant during the past 20 years, Dyer served on the board of directors and provided expertise to local ocean acoustic consulting firms founded by some of his former students. He was instrumental in helping to solve a pump vibration problem at the Deer Island Sewer Treatment facility; this problem impacted the construction completion schedule, and the solution allowed the project, a major construction project to eliminate Boston Harbor pollution, to move forward and the pump to operate safely.
Dyer’s joy was in challenging conventional thinking and being challenged by colleagues and students. If one of his students would say, “The data don’t agree with the theory,” Dyer would wag his finger and say, “No, no . . . The theory does not agree with the data!” Meetings with Dyer are still recalled with gusto. He challenged all to continuously learn and acquire knowledge. He took great pleasure in family and friends, and he will be deeply missed.
Dyer is survived by his wife, Betty; son Samuel Dyer and daughter-in-law Barbara; daughter Debora Dyer Mayer and son-in-law John; and three grandchildren: Ethan Dyer, Charley Mayer, and Owen Mayer.
Individuals wishing to make a donation in Dyer’s memory can do so to the following: Parents and Researchers Interested in Smith-Magenis Syndrome (PRISMS), which supports those with a genetic disorder that Dyer’s oldest grandson was born with; Care Dimensions, the North Shore hospice that was wonderful and loving to the Dyer family; or the Charles and Frieda Dyer Memorial Fund (3413500), a tuition scholarship at MIT established by Ira and Betty in honor of Dyer's parents.
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Accelerated glacier melting in West Antarctica documented
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What the ancient carbon dioxide record may mean for future climate change
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Ice shelf vibrations cause unusual waves in Antarctic atmosphere
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No mangroves, no land, no work - VietNamNet Bridge
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No mangroves, no land, no work
VietNamNet Bridge Without the protection of mangroves, waves and tides are hitting the sea dyke harder, hastening erosion and increasing the risk of breaches. Tran Trong Than, a resident of Hon Me Hamlet, said he'd been allotted a coastal mangrove forest area of six ... |
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Metro's line 3 to eat into mangrove cover - Mumbai Mirror
Metro's line 3 to eat into mangrove cover
Mumbai Mirror According to the minutes of a meeting of the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority, 96,926 square feet of mangrove land will be destroyed near the Income Tax Office at BKC to build a metro station, another 37,000 square feet of land will be ... |
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Proposed development project in Kuala Kedah destroys mangroves - Malaysiakini (subscription)
Proposed development project in Kuala Kedah destroys mangroves
Malaysiakini (subscription) Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) objects to a proposed development project in Kampung Tengku Laksamana and Kampung Sematang Tepi Laut, Kuala Kedah because it is causing destruction of the mangrove forests here. The future project will also affect the ... |
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Monday, October 24, 2016
UC Merced library hosts traveling Delta photo exhibit - Merced Sun-Star
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UC Merced library hosts traveling Delta photo exhibit
Merced Sun-Star The exhibit, called “The Delta Grandeur: The Bucolic Splendor of California's Inland Estuary,” showcases the beauty and diversity of the largest estuary on the West Coast. The exhibit was developed in collaboration with the Natural Resources Defense ... |
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Estuary Rotary Club grants £3,250 to good causes | News ... - Dartmouth-Today
Estuary Rotary Club grants £3,250 to good causes | News ...
Dartmouth-Today KINGSBRIDGE Estuary Rotary Club has granted £3250 to 13 local causes throughout the past year. and more » |
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TetraPOT uses mangroves to grow a greener sea defense system - Inhabitat
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TetraPOT uses mangroves to grow a greener sea defense system
Inhabitat Inspired to create a “stronger yet greener sea defense” system, Taiwanese designer Sheng-Hung Lee designed the TetraPOT, a fusion between the concrete tetrapod and natural mangroves. The innovative design uses the iconic four-pronged tetrapod shape ... and more » |
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Sunday, October 23, 2016
Duckabush estuary high priority in Puget Sound plan - Kitsap Sun
Duckabush estuary high priority in Puget Sound plan
Kitsap Sun BRINNON — A Hood Canal estuary has topped a long list of Puget Sound restoration projects that could get a powerful dose of federal funding. The Army Corps of Engineers ranked the Duckabush River estuary south of Brinnon as one of three priority ... |
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Cockle pickers filmed illegally 'harvesting' protected Adur Estuary - BBC News
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Cockle pickers filmed illegally 'harvesting' protected Adur Estuary
BBC News Illegal cockle picking has been taking place on a large scale at a protected site in West Sussex, the BBC has found. Groups of men, women and children have been filmed collecting large quantities of the clams at the Adur Estuary in Shoreham. Cockles ... and more » |
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