Conserving & restoring waterways can mitigate extreme urban heat in Bangladesh
A company has been close to $221,000 for almost 30 instances of discharging waste into the without authorization in southeastern .
On Aug. 8, the handed Ltd. now operating as two administrative based on issues over two years at its Elkview operations near .
This is not the first time the Elkview mining operations have been penalized for waste disposals. Two years ago, Teck Coal received a penalty of close to $200,000 for several discharges in 2020.
Teck Coal has faced tens of millions of dollars in fines for in B.C. over the years.
It is also now dealing with allegations of dumping harmful substances into waters frequented by fish in the province's southeastern region. laid five charges against the company in July, and they have not been tested in court.
A court hearing in that matter is scheduled for Oct. 10.
is making us , literally
In hundreds of U.S. cities and towns, extreme are overwhelming outdated , with untreated .
From my morning walk through the park.
WaterwaysEnough water for reactors in but scientists worry about
July 19, 2024
"The federal opposition has proposed seven across the country if it wins the next election.
"Its plan involves building the plants on retiring or retired sites, including two in , at in the and near .
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concerns
"The environmental impact of both closed-loop and once through systems has raised concerns in groups.
"While the closed-loop system does not return water warmer to the supply than when it was taken out, the once-through cooling process does.
"Professor Johnson said changes to the temperature of and could be harmful aquatic native .
"' are evolved and used to a certain temperature range, so when temperatures are higher than that, it can change all the things that live in the river,' she said.
"Jacqui Mills from the NSW Nature Conservation Council believed the once-through cooling method could have consequences.
"'If you have hot water discharges, it will very likely kill microorganisms,' Ms Mills said.
"'That has a flow-on impact for the creatures that rely on them like . It basically disrupts the .'
"Julie Favell from the Lithgow Environment Group said recent examples of coal and other industries breaching gave her 'no confidence' that a would be safe.
"'Over the past 20 years we have seen so many impacts on , , the damage in most cases is irreversible,' she said.
"'You cannot erase human error and natural disasters. There would be nothing left if one of those incidents happened.'"
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the beautiful Campbell River estuary where the Mill Pond restoration project is in full swing, to restore salt marsh and eel grass meadows in a former industrial logging site. Greenways Land Trust in partnership with the Wei Wai Kum Guardian Watchmen. Funding from BCSRIF (British Columbia Salmon Restoration and Innovation Fund).
Gathering things with which to cook dinner but where did that onion go I just set it down.
If you rock the boat, the onion will roll.
I'm cooking because I've invited some other boaters for dinner. Guests!
Because you can't have a community unless you build it.
This is where I work. Poor me
Wishing everyone an amazing week filled with beauty and wonder! New art is available here:
Upward of 460M metric tons of plastic are produced every year, equivalent to the weight of >300k blue whales, acc/to the UN Prgm. Much of the plastic that becomes waste are single-use products that can end up polluting , & . As the hardy material breaks down in the environment, it creates tiny particles smaller than 5mm that have been found everywhere from Antarctic snow to inside bodies.
June 26, 2024. Kuhmo, Finland. Nikon D780, AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm f/4G ED VR.I heard that are interfering with in some way. We pass a lot of our into the when we go to the toilet. I have the impression that we're better off taking unwanted products to a for safe disposal. Avoid flushing them if you can.
Factory Farm Pollution is Threatening Waterways and Community Health
Factory Farms Escalate Toxic Algal Threat in the Great Lakes
The Watcher
RIVIERA SUNSET is now available here in you choice of media:
Am Kanal repost
Cte d'Azur is now available here:
Another way to tie up a narrowboat on the canals is by using a bollard.
My favourite knot for this is a clove hitch. It's fast, and when you undo it, the knot falls out of the rope.
A bollard that Canal & River Trust or British Waterways before them has painted black and white (see photo) is only for temporary use, while operating a lock, bridge, water point, and so on.
RIVIERA YACHTS AND HOMES is now available here:
Another BC organization that I've supported & volunteered with:
is a working to defend and rebuild B.C.s .
Watershed Watch Salmon Society was founded two decades ago by a small group of passionate . Led by Craig Orr, they noticed that while a lot of work relating to and was being done on the ground on local , no one was pulling together the pieces to confront decisions at the federal and provincial levels.
Craig and his associates launched Watershed Watch Salmon Society to fill that gap, offering to policy makers, and highlighting the large scale issues affecting local waterways, from to .
Watershed Watch Salmon Society involves many people beyond our paid staff and dedicated board members. We have thousands of supporters and a growing crew of who are passionate about wild salmon. Whether you read our emails, sign our petitions, donate, get out in your to talk about our work or join us in the field, you are an important part of Watershed Watch.
Summer 1987. Porvoo, Finland. Selby Micro-2 (110 film format), unkown film.One of the things I liked about the we're the recordings you could access from the QR codes outside the workers cottages. Here's one example.
With our granddaughter at Nursery school we spent a few hours at the
It was bright but very chilly outside so we didn't spend as much time as we would have liked and need to return to see it all.
chief admits regulator buries freedom of information requests
Speaking at the UK River Summit, Philip Duffy said officials do not want to reveal the true embarrassing environmental picture
The regulator holds information including about , the state of s , the meetings its bosses have with water company CEOs, and other data about the state of nature in the country.
Another photo of the platypus. This one shows the layer of air between its fur/skin and the water, keeping it warm, dry and bouyant.
Today is World Ocean Day. Let's keep our , and any leading into them clean and pollution-free, whatever sea creatures inhabit them - turtles or otherwise.
There are actually hardback turtles along the Cte d'Azur as an interesting translation task I once did taught me.
Hope votes go (as voting europe-wide isn't done yet) to parties who care for the environment among other essential issues of course
Platybutt!
Had an hour to kill, so wandered down to the canal, theres always something worth capturing
We have a little resident platypus living in our creek. This week, we've seen it twice during the day and captured it on trailcam every night.
'The resulting global map illustrates the damaging effects of human activity: parts of the central United States, southern Canada and Europe areas of high population density, urban development and agriculture are bright red hotspots for faster decomposition, "strongly suggesting continental-scale human impacts on carbon cycling in rivers," according to the study.'
In is Bad and Worsening. But There's a Solution: That Eat Plastic
A portrait of pollution around Canadas busiest port :
'Herman Wanningen, founder of the World Fish Migration Foundation, one of the organisations involved in the study, said: The catastrophic decline in migratory fish populations is a deafening wake-up call for the world. We must act now to save these keystone species and their rivers.'
'Huge rise in discharges into and the sea' The Argus
'Sewage discharges into soared by 87 per cent in a year, according to new data.'
'For years this has been described by water companies and politicians as a problem of Victorian sewers.' 'In fact, modern sewers are the problem. Very little of the British sewer system less than 1 per cent, in some areas is Victorian, and it is not the Victorian sections that are responsible for the most spills.'
State Of Colorado To Shield Thousands Of Acres Of Wetlands, Miles Of Streams After Federal Supreme Court Sackett Decision
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Friday Reads 10 May 2024
Seagull Rules
Pretty sure the darn things will eat rubbish anyway without needing to be fed
Todays exciting post!
I know what Im reading on the train to Halsway on Friday :-)