Firefighters watch as a helicopter drops water over the South fire burning in Lytle Creek on Aug. 25, 2021. The government is suing an Upland-based pipeline contracting company and its founder, Garrett John Gentry, for negligence and is seeking more than $2.2 million in damages in the fire, which chewed through 450 acres of the San Bernardino National Forest. “Defendants …
Coal mining under Sydney's drinking water catchment is drying up endangered swamps and scientists say the damage is irreversible. A University of New South Wales research team compared the soil moisture after rainfall events in wetlands above underground longwall coal mining to that of unmined swamps. "We observed that the swamps above the longwall mine path dry more quickly after …
