Dust and groundwater contaminated with heavy metals and radioactive chemicals pose a health threat that the authorities have ...

A photo of a recently planted Procris pedunculata, host plant for the endangered Mariana eight spot butterfly, on an earthen berm at the Live Fire Training Range Complex, June 13, 2025. Out ...

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Israel has begun allowing food into Gaza. Most of the supplies go to GHF, which operates food distribution points. A trickle of aid goes to the U.N. and humanitarian groups. Both systems are mired in ...

Each day, Palestinians in Gaza run a deadly gantlet in hopes of getting food. Israeli troops open barrages of gunfire toward crowds crossing military zones to get to the aid, they say, and ...

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A bitter dispute has led to the muddy mother of all fences rising between two neighbours in the "wild west" of Winnipeg's Wilkes South neighbourhood, where $1-million homes coexist with agricultural ...

A volcanic fissure opened within Grindavik in January 2024, evading the earthen berm built to divert lava flows away from the town. Halldór Kolbeins / AFP via Getty Images ...

These are isolated by a series of earthen berms of uncertain strength. This is EPA Operable Unit 2. A second, 900-acre area held the mill’s 12 settling ponds.

But for now, Henderson remains relatively dry, thanks to that levee and earthen berm system. Henderson Mayor Keith Swenson, often inundated with media requests, believes the system will work again.

The berm, which was installed by the county following damaging flooding in 1982 and 1983, has been in place for nearly 40 years. The wall, stretching from Meadow Drive to Vendola Drive, is ...

The berm, which extends from Meadow Drive to Vendola Drive, was built in 1984 atop an earthen levee/berm following devastating flooding in 1982 and 1983.