Fernandina Has a Decision to Make on Greenway Should It Be Returned to Fresh Water, or Should It Be Allowed to Convert to a Salt Marsh?
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By MARY HURST  FERNANDINA BEACH - The Florida Department of Transportation says the city has two choices for how the state agency will fix the saltwater intrusion problem in the Egans Creek Greenway south of Jasmine Street: Let the area convert to salt marsh or return it to fresh water.
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By Greg Kocher, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Feb. 13--NICHOLASVILLE -- Wilmore's recent vote to rezone and annex land for a Jack Nicklaus golf course and residential development is invalid and should be declared null and void by a court, a lawsuit says.
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By MATT WEISER McClatchy News Service  The push behind its likely removal as an endangered species has some worried.   SACRAMENTO, Calif.
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By Jeffrey L. Frischkorn, The News-Herald, Willoughby, Ohio  Jun. 25--A decades-old earthen cap has started to leak, allowing salt to  leach into the fragile Mentor Marsh.
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Feb. 2--When it comes to saving many significant tracts of open space in the state -- land that should remain in its natural state to protect Connecticut's quality of life -- it's now or never.
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By DREW DIXON  An island is literally being removed just south of Atlantic Boulevard between the Intracoastal Waterway and Neptune Beach to make way for a return of wetlands.
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NISQUALLY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Wash. - A 15-year plan would restore salt marshes and mudflats for migrating salmon at the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, more than 100 years after the farmland was drained and diked.
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By Aaron Kinney  SAN MATEO -- A 76-unit condominium project near Tidelands Park is working its way through the planning process as city officials work to mitigate the effects the project might have on the seasonal wetlands there.
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Science & environment: Seen as posh and green, the langoustine is catching on as eco-friendly sea food.
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"In most cities desalination plants are not required."  GENEVA: Extracting salt from seawater to make it drinkable is the wrong way to handle water shortages around the world and could exacerbate climate change, a leading conservation group said Tuesday. via International Herald Tribune
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By Melanie Marquez, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Dec. 14--BRADENTON -- Concerns from a local environmental group didn't keep the Bradenton City Council from adopting amendments Wednesday that define how many units can be built along parts of the city's shorelines.
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Environmentalists say they can return a 7,000-acre farm to its natural state as a thriving wetland by allowing it to flood.
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Environmentalists think ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.
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Scientists and state officials are considering a broad diversion of the Mississippi River into LouisianaÂs sediment-starved marshes.
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By Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Jun. 14--Some people believe that conserving natural resources and protecting the environment are moral issues. An article in Sunday's Messenger-Inquirer written by reporter James Mayse examined that very question.
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By Elias E. Lopez, The Miami Herald  Feb. 4--The Palmetto Bay Village Council is stepping into the debate over a proposed wetland project at Bill Sadowski Park and Nature Center.
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By Todd B. Bates, Asbury Park Press, N.J.  Mar. 4--Bulkheads, roads and other development limit nearly one third of  the area in New Jersey where tidal salt marshes could "retreat" as the sea  level rises, according to a new study and one of its Rutgers University  authors.