Study: Program To Protect Fish Is Saving Fishermen's Lives, Too

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/02/16/466612148/study-program-to-protect-fish-is-saving-fishermens-lives-too

Claire Leschin-Hoar

NPR

16 February 2016

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Catch share programs—where fishermen are allotted a set quota of the catch—reduce the notoriously risky behavior fishermen are known for, like sailing in stormy weather, a new study finds.

How Catfish and Algae Are Cleaning Up the Chicago River

http://www.citylab.com/weather/2015/12/how-catfish-and-algae-are-cleaning-up-the-chicago-river/420996

Dawn Reiss

CityLab

22 December 2015

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By releasing fish into the Chicago River, the city of Chicago aims to help clean up its ecosystem, as the fish hopefully will eat the river's excess algae.

When the River Rises: an investigative report on flooding in Richland County, Ohio

http://www.richlandsource.com/anthology/when-the-river-rises-an-investigative-report-on-flooding-in/article_6f737860-1858-11e6-96d5-6307a6ed546c.html

Dillon Carr

Richland Source

16 May 2016

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As farmers continue to experience floods—and lack control over the dredging of the rivers running through their farms—a few have looked to homegrown solutions, and others to amending policy to create "subdistricts."

Coral cultivation offers hope to devastated western Indian Ocean reefs

http://www.trust.org/item/20140328224703-b3pan/?source=dpagehead

Wanjohi Kabukuru

Thomson Reuters Foundation

29 March 2014

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Warming water has led to the collapse of coral reef systems in the western Indian Ocean, essential to fisheries, protecting shorelines, and reducing beach erosion and sea-level rise. Marine scientists from Nature Seychelles, as part of an international project to protect and restore the reefs, are promoting varieties of coral that they have found to be resistant to the rise in temperature.

On Columbia, ‘just add water' seems to be working

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/on-columbia-lsquojust-add-waterrsquo-seems-to-be-working

Lynda V. Mapes

The Seattle Times

2 August 2014

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New water management technology implemented along the Columbia has significantly helped the fish population - specifically salmon - return to healthy numbers and has restored much of the community and industry that revolves around the river, including for native peoples.

Can Bats Reduce Nut Farmers' Pesticide Use?

http://ensia.com/features/can-bats-reduce-nut-farmers-pesticide-use

Susan Moran

Ensia

21 September 2015

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In California some farms lose up to 10 percent of their crop due to coddling moths. Davis University is measuring the impact bats have on various walnut farms, such as potential savings from reduced insecticide use and crop loss to insects.

Protecting the Rio Grande Basin's dwindling water

http://www.elpasotimes.com/story/archives/2014/11/15/protecting-our-dwindling-water/74070200

Marty Schladen

El Paso Times

16 November 2014

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The El Paso Times reports from the heart of the Rio Grande Basin - where drought has led to dramatic decreases in water supply, and serious changes in management of river resources are called for - on how the region plans to tackle the effects of climate change. Citizens work to increase water regulations and frugality in order to find a solution to the dwindling water problem.

Birth Control for Bambi

http://undark.org/article/birth-control-for-bambi

Benjamin Goldfarb

Undark

15 April 2016

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The overpopulation of white-tailed deer is a conservation realization and an environmental disaster for the communities that harbor them. Hastings-on-Hudson, a progressive community, has opted for a humane birth control method PZP that is injected by darts into does. The method is successful for its non-lethal approach and the population growth has slowed, but as of yet has not significantly decreased.

Can biomimicry tackle our toughest water problems?

https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.20/can-biomimicry-tackle-our-toughest-water-problems

Benjamin Goldfarb

High Country News

24 November 2014

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Clean water and healthy ecosystems are becoming increasingly difficult to come by. With floating islands and other inventions, eco-entrepreneur Bruce Kania thinks that biomimicry - such as reconstructing wetlands and growing biofilms - can tackle the toughest of water problems.

As wolves rebound, range riders keep watch over livestock

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/as-wolves-rebound-range-riders-keep-watch-over-livestock

Sandi Doughton

The Seattle Times

2 August 2015

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Wolves in western America were once hunted to near-extinction but have now been reintroduced into certain territories with notable success. More wolves often means more attacks on ranchers' livestock, however, so cowboys are working to track wolf packs by computer to reduce conflicts.