内容摘要：However, plumes usually lose most of their concentration in the eastern Caribbean, he noted.

However, plumes usually lose most of their concentration in the eastern Caribbean, he noted.

Educating and introducing change to local communities is important, too. Munroe suggests working with your homeowners association, schools, businesses and churches to limit loud, destructive activity on their properties.“Talk to local municipalities about their noise ordinances and (encourage them to) create a sound sanctuary in the neighborhood (to protect) wood thrushes, katydids” and other wildlife, he said.

And always observe noise ordinances at home and in public places, like parks.Wild animals serve as “pollinators, affect pest control and have a positive effect on our agriculture and our economy,” Munroe said. “We want them in our neighborhoods.”Jessica Damiano writes weekly gardening columns for the AP and publishes the award-winning Weekly Dirt Newsletter. You can sign up

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, they’re taking a new look atAttorneys for the Democratic-led Legislature and environmental regulators said the lawsuit threatened their constitutional authority.

Appeals Judge Katherine Wray issued an additional concurring opinion, expressing further limitations of the pollution control clause.MIAMI (AP) — Misdemeanor charges have filed against the man who was operating the boat that

off a South Florida beach last year, as well as the man who was operating the boat she had been wakeboarding behind, authorities announced Tuesday.Carlos Guillermo Alonso, 79, was charged April 28 with violating two U.S. Coast Guard navigational rules, and Edmund Richard Hartley, 31, was charged April 29 with violating four Coast Guard rules, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said in a press release.