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South Elgin to seek state EPA loan for water treatment plant upgrades
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (556+ words) The village of South Elgin is applying for a $7.5 million low-interest Public Water Supply Loan through the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to help pay for improvements to the Spring Street water treatment plant. South Elgin Village Board members were briefed…...
Review: We can map that: Newberry Library exhibits 500-plus years of borders, folds and graticules
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (74+ words) Contemporary British artist Ed Fairburn painted over an old map of Cardiff, hijacking its existing contour lines to reveal the portrait hiding therein. Many more maps " old and new, geographic and artistic "are on view in "Mapping Outside the Lines....
Oposición de agricultores franceses amenaza con retrasar tratado comercial UE-Mercosur
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (781+ words) Por JOHN LEICESTER y SAM McNEIL Esta semana, los agricultores se manifestaron en toda Francia con tractores pesados para construir barricadas improvisadas y bloquear carreteras, m'todos probados y comprobados para presionar al gobierno franc's que anteriormente han demostrado ser exitosos…...
El Kilauea expulsa fuentes de lava por 37ma vez desde que comenzó su erupción el año pasado
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (203+ words) El flujo de roca fundida estaba confinado dentro de la caldera del cr'ter del Kilauea en el Parque Nacional de los Volcanes de Hawai, inform" el Servicio Geol"gico de Estados Unidos. No hab'a viviendas en peligro. Es la 37ma vez…...
Un poderoso terremoto sacude la costa norte de Japón y emiten aviso de tsunami
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (24+ words) TOKIO (AP) " Un poderoso terremoto sacude la costa norte de Jap'n y emiten aviso de tsunami. More in En Espa'ol More in En Espa'ol...
La minería en aguas profundas podría alterar la cadena alimentaria marina, advierte un estudio
4+ mon, 1+ day ago (764+ words) Por ALEXA ST. JOHN La perforaci'n para extraer minerales en las profundidades del oc'ano podr'a tener consecuencias inmensas para los diminutos animales que son el n'cleo de la vasta red alimentaria marina, y en 'ltima instancia, afectar a los caladeros…...
NWI activists ask for public meeting about Chase Street well
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (294+ words) A group of Northwest Indiana organizations sent a letter to the Little Calumet River Basin Development Commission, asking for a public meeting about the arsenic levels at the Chase Street artesian well. Gary Advocates for Responsible Development, the Gary Food…...
La UE ofrece protecciones a agricultores mientras busca apoyo para acuerdo comercial con Mercosur
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (411+ words) Sin embargo, ha enfrentado una oposici'n vehemente del sector agr'cola de Europa. Las propuestas presentadas el mi'rcoles dar'an a los agricultores nuevos mecanismos para presentar quejas y obligar a la Comisi'n Europea a investigar los desequilibrios comerciales derivados del acuerdo…...
Triton College’s Space Center teams with Polish filmmaker to focus on Earth
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (485+ words) Three aliens are in danger of losing their food source when they crash land on Earth in "The Stellars: Mission Green" by Warsaw, Poland-based Creative Planet. The trio will have to learn how plants, insects and fungi keep forests healthy…...
Update Tuesday on stormwater tracking project
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (149+ words) The Hobart Sanitary District is launching a multi-year project to assess and improve the city's stormwater system. Residents can learn more about the five-phase project and offer input at a board meeting at 5 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall. That data will…...