Articles tagged as: river estuary
California’s Number One Inland Oil Polluter in Trouble Again
October 5, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO, California, October 3, 2008 (ENS) – An oil company that state and federal officials have called California’s number one inland oil polluter has failed to meet multiple deadlines to clean up leaks from settling ponds on one of its leases, so the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week took over partial cleanup operations [...]
Read More »Migratory Shorebirds Vanishing Along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway
April 22, 2008
SYDNEY, Australia, April 21, 2008 (ENS) – One of the world’s great wildlife spectacles is under way across Australia. Two million migratory shorebirds of 36 species are gathering around Broome before an amazing 10,000 kilometer (6,200 mile) annual flight to their breeding grounds in the Northern Hemisphere. The birds are preparing to make an annual [...]
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