"Are you worried about river wildlife in your area? Want to know if the animals are happy? If the water's clean enough?
Then maybe you should text them and ask!" The BBC reports on Amphibious Architecture, the new experiment set up by students from New York University's Environmental Health Clinic and the Living Architecture Lab at Columbia University.
Near Kennedy International Airport, in a $200 million project, the NYC Department of Environmental Protection covered the Fountain Avenue Landfill and the neighboring Pennsylvania Avenue Landfill with a layer of plastic, then put down clean soil and planted 33,000 trees and shrubs at the two sites. The result is 400 acres of nature preserve, restoring native habitats that disappeared from New York City long ago. NYT
In the depths of northeastern India, in one of the wettest places on earth, bridges aren't built - they're grown. rootbridges.blogspot.com Hat-tip Bruce Sterling
Grady Lewis, a Virginia native who closed on his 2.67-acre lot in 2007 and moved into his 1,800-square-foot house at Bundoran with his wife, Diane, this spring, responded to Qroe’s idea of preserving “rural quality.” NYT
A look at the 16,000 acre Mollicy Farms on the Upper Ouachita River. The farm is the location for the largest floodplain restoration and reconnection project in the USA. NYT
Around the nation, decades of environmental regulation, conservation efforts and changing land use have brought many species, like beavers, so far back from the brink that they are viewed as nuisances. NYT
Sundance Channel recently launched a new online video series titled “High Line Stories,” profiling activists, artists, architects, landscape architects, City officials, and celebrities involved in turning the abandoned elevated railroad track into a park paradise. A/N Blog
Utne Reader reports on Ecuador's nature rights: "In September 2008, the citizens of Ecuador approved the world’s first constitution to extend inalienable rights to nature." Read | related feature | thx Bfunk!
When an ancient tsunami hit "New York" the huge wave crashed into New York City and the surrounding region. Occurring 2,300 years ago, it dumped sediment and shells across Long Island and New Jersey and cast wood debris far up the Hudson River. BBC News
