Atlanta, Georgia seeks ideas for redeveloping recently-closed, 70-acre downtown rail yard
For about four decades, the Hulsey train yard just east of downtown Atlanta, Georgia bustled with activity nearly 24 hours a day. But in…
Issue #100: June 1, 2019
How adaptive reuse revived a South Carolina town that was gassed almost to extinction
On January 6, 2005, Norfolk Southern Railway Company freight train 192 crashed, and almost killed Graniteville, South Carolina. One of the three tank cars…
Burmese star tortoise restored from the edge of extinction to over 15,000 individuals
The Burmese star tortoise (Geochelone platynota) is a medium-sized tortoise found only in Myanmar’s (Burma) central dry zone. It has now been brought back…
Resilient Coastal Regeneration: Size matters when restoring vital seagrass beds
Healthy seagrass beds provide a host of benefits to marine ecosystems, from improving water quality and feeding myriad species to protecting shorelines from erosion….
At University of Michigan, state’s oldest observatory to get $10 million renovation
Plans to construct an underground addition in the historic Detroit Observatory have been approved by the University of Michigan‘s Board of Regents. The Detroit…
