By David Pendered Oct. 6 — To improve the monitoring of the nation’s fisheries, an environmental foundation is offering grants to groups that devise electronic methods to track fishery catch now that the Supreme Court has halted a program that used human monitors. The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, in partnership with NOAA, is offering […]
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Scotus ruling on Texas water case may resonate at OKEBy David Pendered MARCH 24 –As the federal government lays claim to the waters and aquifer of the Okefenokee Swamp, the Supreme Court is deciding a case involving the waters and aquifer of the Rio Grande River Basin, in Texas. The point of considering the two situations together is the rise in the nationalization of discussion […]
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UN to adopt first treaty to protect biodiversity in high seasBy David Pendered June 4 – The United Nations remains on track to formally adopt this month an historic treaty to protect oceans around the world. The treaty represents the UN’s first-ever attempt to establish an international agreement to safeguard biodiversity in the high seas, the term for the unregulated sections of the world’s oceans […]
