Tag: Audubon Society of Rhode Island
R.I. Foundation awards $481K in grants to animal-welfare programs
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation announced Monday it has awarded $481,000 in grants to 26 local animal-welfare programs organized by nonprofits and municipalities.
The...
Five Questions With: Jeanine Silversmith
Jeanine Silversmith is the executive director of the Rhode Island Environmental Education Association. The Providence-based nonprofit is a collaborative network of organizations and professionals...
Providence Stormwater Innovation Center using park to experiment
After three consecutive days of stifling, 90-degree heat, any droplets of water had long since evaporated from the shallow inlet of vegetation outside the...
Providence peregrines have returned to ‘Superman’ building
PROVIDENCE – A needed boost in a terrible week: the Audubon Society of Rhode Island announced that the peregrine falcons have returned to their...
Solar flare-up: Solar farms facing backlash across Ocean State
(Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series on the challenges and opportunities of solar- and wind-farm development in Rhode Island and...
Chace elected president of Wilson Ornithological Society
JAMESON CHACE, a professor at Salve Regina University in the biology and biomedical sciences and cultural, environmental and global studies departments, has been elected...
EPA awards $1.1M to R.I. entities for coastal conservation and restoration
PROVIDENCE – Seven Rhode Island entities have been awarded a combined $1.1 million in federal grants to promote cleaner water and healthier coastal ecosystems,...
State senate bill would strengthen protection of woodlands
PROVIDENCE – A Rhode Island state senator has introduced a bill that would create a commission that would identify ecologically significant woodlands and draft...
DEM buys 58 acres in Hopkinton for preservation, establishing 2,000 contiguous...
HOPKINTON – The R.I. Department of Environmental Management acquired 58 acres of forestland in Hopkinton for $250,000 for permanent protection in a location abutting...
Five Questions With: Peter Green
Peter Green, a photographer and graphic artist, documents life atop the Superman Building in downtown Providence through his website, www.providenceraptors.com. He spoke to the...