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Sea and Shoreline: Titusville Clam Drop
Restoring Florida’s waterways—one clam at a time. As part of one of Florida’s first multi-trophic shoreline restoration projects, we recently deployed millions of native clams into the Indian River Lagoon at the Titusville Causeway. These clams, descended from a population that survived previous algal blooms, can collectively filter up to 80 million gallons of water…
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Partner Takeover: Sea and Shoreline’s Environmental Dredging
What is Environmental dredging? Environmental dredging involves carefully removing contaminated or accumulated harmful sediments from water bodies—like lakes, rivers, and coastal areas—and is important for creating and maintaining healthy habitats (for manatees and other sea life) and for ensuring navigable access for boats & ships. At Sea & Shoreline, we use hydraulic ‘suction’ dredging to…
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SARA at AFS 2025
San Antonio River Authority staff had the pleasure of helping coordinate the 155th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society in early August. The meeting was a huge success with over 1,100 attendees! Attendees presented hundreds of papers and posters, took part in the Black Bass 2025 symposium, removed 342 adult apple snails and more…
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Partner Takeover: San Antonio River Authority
What if infrastructure looked like art? At the confluence of two creeks in downtown San Antonio, the San Antonio River Authority has unveiled Falling Water, a striking new installation by nationally recognized artist Mark Reigelman. More than just a sculpture, the project is actively working to protect the San Antonio River. Installed along San Pedro…
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August 2025 Knowledge Series: Life Depends on Rivers: Building a Movement to Protect and Restore America’s Rivers
Jenny Hoffner and Eileen Shader, CFM, American Rivers Rivers are essential to all life on earth, but our rivers are at risk as never before from climate change, pollution, drought, flooding, and loss of natural habitat. American Rivers is championing a national effort to protect and restore all rivers, from remote mountain streams to urban…
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AECOM’s Nature-Based Solutions: Empowering People and Nature to Thrive
Nature-based solutions harness the power of ecosystems to drive resilience, biodiversity, and sustainable outcomes. With over half of the world’s GDP dependent on healthy natural systems—and an estimated $700 billion per year needed to halt species and ecosystem loss—these solutions integrate ecological processes into the way we plan, design, and build. Nature-based approaches address climate…
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Colorado River Connectivity Channel: Discover how AECOM’s work on the Colorado River Connectivity Channel (CRCC) is balancing water resource management with environmental conservation
The Colorado River Connectivity Channel (CRCC) is restoring the lifeline of the Southwest while balancing water supply needs and environmental health. Spanning 1,450 miles and serving over 40 million people, the river supports communities, ecosystems, and economies across seven U.S. states and two in Mexico. Built in the 1980s, the Windy Gap Reservoir met critical…
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Partner Takeover: AECOM – Building Texas’ Storm Resilience
From the Texas coastline to San Antonio’s riverbanks, we’re helping communities prepare for, and thrive beyond, storm events. Working with the Texas General Land Office, we are advancing the latest Texas Coastal Resiliency Master Plan, integrating nature-based solutions and engineered defenses to protect 367+ miles of shoreline, critical energy assets, and millions of residents. In…
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Interdisciplinary team introduces Engineering With Nature® Practice Guides series
Our N-EWN partners across industry, governmental, academic and nonprofit sectors talk a lot about Engineering With Nature®, but it’s not always clear what that means or how to incorporate EWN principles within engineering projects. This team from an interdisciplinary crew of our partners is working to address that with a new series of practice guides…
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EDF advocates for wetland protections
Wetlands are some of Earth’s most valuable ecosystems that offer a range of benefits, such as cleaning our water, providing critical habitat and supporting recreational industries. Importantly, wetlands also serve as natural infrastructure and protect communities from flooding, which is the costliest natural hazard in the United States. Despite these benefits, our nation’s wetlands are…
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EDF: Navigating federal flood planning
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) just released a new step-by-step guide to help communities and advocates navigate federal flood planning. Flooding, the nation’s costliest disaster, impacts local communities on the coasts and in cities, towns and inland areas alike, and more frequent and severe weather events are prompting communities and local entities to seek lasting solutions.…
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Partner Takeover: Environmental Defense Fund
This week, we are featuring our next partner at Network for Engineering with Nature: Environmental Defense Fund, also known as EDF. EDF started off in 1967 as a scrappy group of scientists and a lawyer fighting to save osprey from a toxic pesticide. They successfully got the pesticide banned in the United States, catapulting the…
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