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Nestlé Plan To Take Water From Florida Natural Springs Sparks Outcry [1]

"Opponents fighting to stop the project say the fragile river cannot sustain such a large draw".

"The crystal blue waters of Ginnie Springs have long been treasured among the string of pearls that line Florida’s picturesque Santa Fe River, a playground for water sports enthusiasts and an ecologically critical haven for the numerous species of turtles that nest on its banks.

Soon, however, it is feared there could be substantially less water flowing through, if a plan by the food and beverage giant Nestlé wins approval.

Source: Guardian [2], 08/28/2019

"Trump Pushes To Allow New Logging In Alaska’s Tongass National Forest" [9]

"President Trump has instructed Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to exempt Alaska’s 16.7-million-acre Tongass National Forest from logging restrictions imposed nearly 20 years ago, according to three people briefed on the issue, after privately discussing the matter with the state’s governor aboard Air Force One."

Source: Washington Post [10], 08/28/2019

"Technology Replaces Fire Lookouts At The Forest Service" [11]

"For more than a hundred years, the Forest Service has relied on lookouts, whose job it is to spot wildfires before they get big. But they're increasingly being replaced by satellites, remote cameras, also drones. NPR's Nathan Rott spent a day with one lookout in southwest New Mexico to see what could be lost in a transition to technology."

Source: NPR [12], 08/27/2019

"What the Seas Will Swallow" [13]

"Alex MacLean’s aerial images of the US East Coast convey just how much infrastructure perches in the coastal danger zone."

Source: Hakai [14], 08/27/2019

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