#environmental-protection

#environmental-protection

I could hear it in his voice, says Polsky on a recent video call, recalling DeLuca's hesitation to bring up his idea. He's like, This is kind of weird, and I don't know why I thought of you, but would you be open to hearing this really strange story that came across my desk?' Polsky, whose past film projects include documentary and feature films with collaborators such as Nicolas Cage, Wayne Gretzky and Werner Herzog, said yes.

Indigenous and environmental leaders in Ecuador say they are facing a wave of state intimidation ahead of a national referendum next month on whether to rewrite the world's only constitution that recognises the rights of nature. The pressure is being applied by the rightwing president, Daniel Noboa, who has begun his second term with a Trumpian agenda of consolidating power and sweeping away legal and social barriers to extractivist businesses, such as mining.

There's plenty to be alarmed about. Born in the heat of US president Donald Trump's trade war, and out of the scramble to assert some measure of economic independence in an uncertain world, Bill C-5 is dressed in the language of efficiency. Should a mine or pipeline be judged vital to Canada, the nation won't wait. That speed comes, in part, from creating a single, expedited regulatory process.

Join us on California Coastal Cleanup Day, Saturday Sept 20, to keep our coast clean. We will be cleaning Millbrae Central Park and surrounding areas - keeping inland areas clean stops trash from entering our storm drains and polluting the bay! Cleanup supplies and a burrito lunch is provided to all participants! This Coastal Cleanup Day features a Trashure Hunt - pick up trash and hunt for special items to redeem gift cards!

Ministers have told officials at the Environment Agency to wave through planning applications with minimal resistance, as part of a major regulatory shakeup designed to increase economic growth and plug the government's financial hole. Officials at the agency say they have been told to do as little as legally possible to prevent housing applications from being approved, with the government also drafting in senior advisers from the housing department to speed up the process.

It is very risky in terms of groundwater contamination. As the motion currently stands there is no groundwater quality or quantity study. There is no ecological assessment.

Over the past decade, the United States has turned technologies into tools that strengthened our economy, delivered good-paying union jobs, cleaned up our air and water, conserved our precious natural resources, and saved families money all across our country. Yet now the country is choosing to cede that leadership, letting China dominate and control the clean-energy market across the world. It's no surprise that people are scratching their heads, wondering what happened.

Antarctica's vast ice sheet stores more than 90% of the planet's surface fresh water, influencing sea levels and the atmosphere's circulation.

The Trust for Public Land purchased the 5,843-acre Coast Dairies property in 1998 for $44.5 million, preserving its rural character for public enjoyment.

"Our peatlands are this country's Amazon rainforest - home to our most precious wildlife, storing carbon and reducing flooding risk," U.K. Nature minister Mary Creagh said.

"We have to respond to the widespread and prolonged dry weather affecting our region. In our case, this means a hosepipe ban for our customers in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, to protect the health of our amazing chalk streams, which as one of the rarest habitats on Earth has been compared to the Amazon rainforest."

California has conserved 26.1% of its lands and 21.9% of its coastal waters, meaning the state has secured roughly 41,000 square miles and 1,150 square miles respectively.

"One of the reasons I moved to Santa Fe from the Midwest was to be closer to the wilderness, to public lands - not only in New Mexico, but Colorado and in Utah. I don't want them destroyed."

Keep Big Sur Wild maintains 'all capacity has already been exhausted' according to the land use plan. It allowed for a maximum of 300 units to be built. By our count, the cap has been exceeded by at least 5 units.'

The BeBot, a remotely operated beach cleaning robot, efficiently removes litter from beaches, aiming to prevent plastic from entering water bodies and affecting wildlife.

"It's about outcomes - not potential or platitudes. It's about what you did to restore the marine environment."

"The Ministry has yet to formally initiate the mandatory review of the Greenbelt Plan, which was supposed to start earlier this year, raising concerns among critics."

Experts warn that the new bill could effectively enable developers to pay to pollute, putting ecosystems at risk, particularly among England's protected natural landscapes.

"We are very pleased to have had the opportunity to collaborate with the previous landowner to have achieved such a positive outcome," said Gordon Clark, president of the Peninsula Open Space Trust.

Those tiny specks are critical materials. They're essential for building new technology, and they're in short supply in the U.S. They could be reused, but there's a problem: Current recycling methods make recovering critical minerals from e-waste too costly or hazardous.

The Ford government is justifying Bill 5 as a measure to expedite infrastructure and resource extraction projects, framing it as a necessary response to economic threats.

This is about a small number of people trying to limit a larger number of people's access to space.

A lot of people drive on Interstate 10 and they see a desolate landscape, and it looks like nothing could survive out there, but this area has been life-sustaining since time immemorial.

The mayor of London is right to redouble his efforts to tackle the capital's housing crisis, but there is no reason this should come at the expense of protecting nature.

The attempt to give the globally rare ecosystems the strongest protections as irreplaceable habitats failed after all the Labour MPs on the parliamentary committee examining the draft law rejected an amendment containing the extra provision.

Santa Clara County's rural areas are threatened by builder's remedy proposals that could lead to significant loss of farmland and open spaces.

Defra's five-year contract with BT aims to enhance rural connectivity, enabling real-time reporting of environmental data critical for farming and flood management.