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A new multi-use path along the Red Line tunnel cap from Fields Corner to Ashmont has been a pie-in-the-sky dream for residents going back decades, but those dreams are inching closer to reality with funding in place to begin studying possibilities for use of the cap space – which is owned by the MBTA. With $300,000 in grant money from the state’s MassTrails program, and city
Destroying dams could seem like virtue-signalling Luddism: Electricity has to be produced one way or another. And hydro has long been perceived as a relatively “clean” source of energy and electricity, at least compared to oil and coal. But rivers can recover their former dynamism if at least some dams are taken away and if they are allowed to flow naturally again, according to Eichelmann.“It’s simply a question whether we want to have rivers in the future, or not, he said.
The wind turbines will generate electricity which, as so often, is being touted as "green". But the people who go to Borzhava to hang-glide, pick berries and escape from the cities with their noise, shopping centres and offices will be pushed out. And the wind turbine-covered mountains will never look the same again. In this article, Ukrainska Pravda explains why the energy from the planned wind farm in Borzhava will not be "green", and how both people and wildlife lose out when wind turbines are built.
As winter closes in, Ukraine is facing demoralizing news. Western support for the war is faltering, Ukrainian troops in the east are being pushed onto the back foot amid a Russian troop surge, and Kyiv is once again under attack from Russian drone strikes targeting energy infrastructure, the biggest such attacks since the invasion began. […]
A total of 812 natural reserves with a total area of 0.9 million hectares, which is more than 20% of all nature conservation areas in the country, were damaged as a result of Russian armed aggression against Ukraine, the press service of the Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Ministry of Ukraine said on Monday.