Tunnels to prevent carnage of Canadian salamanders
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Canadian researchers know why the salamander crossed the road, and now they hope to fix things so it won&#39;t have to.
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Government buildings are to be provided with defences to stop them being rammed by cars or trucks packed with explosives.
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For several decades researchers have studied toxin levels in Arctic peoples and wildlife and tracked pollution sources. Peter Ross is a marine mammal toxicologist with the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans in Sidney, British Columbia.
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By Walter itschey  There have been lots of copperhead snakes on Country Club Drive in Danville this summer. Are they coming out to sun on the pavement? No, their habitat is being destroyed by the cutting of trees to build condominiums.
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Water is accumulating on the underground roof of the Big Dig tunnels, according to Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly, who said yesterday that his office is trying to determine whether the pools of water pose any threat of damage to the $14.
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Travelers know the warning: Don't drink the water. But tourists to Mammoth Cave National Park might be better off learning a new one: Don't let the water drip on you.
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By Tony Spinelli, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Jun. 3--MONROE -- The salamanders wriggled and splashed in the plastic container as a group of 10-year-old boys crouched beside it in the woods near Webb Mountain Park.   The boys, including 10-year-old Tyler Schiumo, were enthralled.
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For years, geologists and devoted amateurs have lobbied for a regional trail dedicated to ice-age floods. At last, their efforts may pay off.
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By Pam Kowalik, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Feb.
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Officials in a rural valley in British Columbia hope that keeping out cellphones will help attract residents and tourists who want to escape to the quiet of nature.
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REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Oct 3 (IPS) - A novel solution has been proposed to block the  building of a controversial dam that sits over a fissure and that  environmentalists say will harm plant and animal life.
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MONTREAL (CP) - Montreal's transit system is one of the safest in the world, its president said Monday, denying that violent crimes on the subway system have gone unreported amid a turf war between police and transit security agents.
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Leaks in the Big Dig highway tunnel system are more widespread than state officials have acknowledged, and top construction managers had warned as far back as 1998 about problems that could cause failures in tunnel waterproofing, the Boston Globe reported Wednesday.
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By CAMILLE BAINS  VANCOUVER (CP) - The organizers of the 2010 Winter Olympics say they've gone so far as moving ski runs to save frogs as part of their quest to ensure the Games are sustainable.
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By MARK STEVENSON  MEXICO CITY - There is a "high possibility" a huge underground drainage tunnel could soon fail, flooding parts of this mountain-ringed metropolis 15 feet deep in sewage, the national water agency said Tuesday.
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State Game and Fish officials will help staff members at Carlsbad Caverns National Park remove exotic fish and amphibians from the pond at Rattlesnake Springs.
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Disease, climate change and habitat loss are threatening one-third of the world&#39;s fragile species of frogs, toads, newts and salamanders, according to the first global assessment of amphibians.