Florida’s fragile Everglades are not on track to meet a new water quality standard set to take effect next month, even after nearly 40 years of costly restoration work aimed at addressing pollution in the river of grass, according to a new report. The Water Quality Based-Effluent Limitation (WQBEL) is designed to measure nutrient pollution

BALTIMORE—Every drop of rain rushing over pavement is a dilemma, picking up pollution and sweeping it into streams. And in this low-lying city on the water, it doesn’t take much to trigger flooding. But around one Northeast Baltimore church, plenty of raindrops slow down.  Faith Presbyterian Church planted a 200-square-foot rain garden and converted part

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Exclusive: Experts say scheme will help repair damaged marine ecosystems while sequestering large amounts of carbonMore than 15m juvenile oysters are to be released into the North Sea in one of the biggest rewilding projects in UK waters.The scheme, which will use a unique rearing process, hopes to re-establish a huge oyster bed around Orkney that experts say will create a “trophic cascade” […]

On a busy tourist strip in Orlando, behind noisy bars and souvenir shops, 21 sloths in crates reached the end of a grueling international trip.  Soon, they would all be dead. The tree-dwelling mammals were transferred to a warehouse resembling an old oil-change garage and placed in cages. The warehouse is the off-site facility of