The homeowner mutiny leaving Florida cities defenseless against hurricanes – Grist Magazine
The Army Corps of Engineers won’t restore eroded beaches in Pinellas County unless homeowners agree to one condition: public access…
Sand Dollars – CBS News Investigations
Federal agencies spend millions every year replacing sand on beaches. Some experts say it’s a waste of tax money….
California will help return tribal lands as part of the historic Klamath River restoration – the Los Angeles Times
More than a century has passed since members of the Shasta Indian Nation saw the last piece of their ancestral home — a landscape along the Klamath River where villages once stood — flooded by a massive hydroelectric project.
Now more than 2,800 acres of land that encompassed the settlement, known as Kikacéki, will be returned to the tribe. The reclamation is part of the largest river restoration effort in U.S. history, the removal of four dams and reservoirs that had cut off the tribe from the spiritual center of their world…
A new report looks at major companies’ efforts to address plastic waste — and finds them lacking – Grist Magazine
Of the 147 companies with a package recyclability goal, only 15 percent were on track to meet it…
How the recycling symbol lost its meaning – Grist Magazine
Of the 147 companies with a package recyclability goal, only 15 percent were on track to meet it…