Fishing Access and Habitat Restoration Are Wrecked: FLOOD DESTROYS YEARS' WORTH OF EXPENSIVE PROJECTS
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By Brandon Loomis, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 8--SOLDOTNA -- Anglers will find fewer places to fish and young salmon will find fewer places to hide here this year because of a roiling crush of ice and water that scoured the Kenai River's banks two weeks ago.
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The Mississippi Delta is sinking fast, posing a challenge for the rebuilding of coastal Louisiana after the devastation wrought in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina, a study released Sunday confirmed.
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It's taking on water, and debt.
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Bush administration proposes development-friendly policies that it says will protect fish. Environmentalists are outraged. By Brad Knickerbocker | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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A massive cleanup plan to restore the Great Lakes for future generations needs to be a priority in Congress this year, lawmakers and environmental activists said Wednesday. Members of Congress representing Great Lakes states outlined a $20 billion plan to improve water quality, restore fish and wildlife around the lakes and guard against invasive species that could inflict economic pain on the region.
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Boats have become a necessary means of transport in the flooded streets of Quxian, north-east of Sichuan province. Picture:Reuters.
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Economic development at the expense of the environment is like grabbing a good seat in the cinema of a sinking luxury liner.  Even worse, the more rapid the development, the more damage it does to the environment.  We are heavily indebted to environment.
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By Allen Thomas, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Mar. 8--Skamania and Toutle fish hatcheries face closure this year unless they are rescued by a $600,000 appropriation in the state's supplemental budget.
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Investing: Cruising to Disaster
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By the numbers: a snapshot of development's impact on water usage in the basin.
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The loss and degradation of habitat pose the most significant threats to hundreds of Florida wildlife species. Lack of funding and enforcement and staff turnover represent the biggest
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By Bangor Daily News, Maine  Dec. 9--Funding for the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, particularly covering the department's expenses without relying solely on hunters and fishermen, is a perennial issue. It has come up again in the form of payment for searches and rescues.
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The interplay between the oceans and atmosphere is changing, wiping out vast swathes of marine life, say scientists.
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ASHLAND, Ore.  - A Bush administration decision to  eliminate the possibility of removing dams to save endangered  U.S. Pacific Northwest salmon species is a huge blow to  protection efforts, an environmental group said on Wednesday.
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Four years ago, scientists thought they had found the perfect place to settle the Noah flood debate: A farmer's house on a bluff overlooking the Black Sea built about 7,500 years ago &#151; just before tidal waves inundated the homestead, submerged miles of coastline and turned the freshwater lake into a salty sea.
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The devastation of Hurricane Katrina is very much on the nation's radar screen. The disastrous effects of last year's storms on the Gulf Coast fishing industry stand out as a need that is yet to be met.
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The tsunami that took a heavy toll in human life also battered Indian Ocean coral reefs that already were in distress from pollution and global warming, possibly causing damage that will require decades to recover, experts say.