Environment: Natural Resources - Press Releases

Rainwater Tanks to Help Farmers in Wake of Unpredictable Climate Change

As researchers claim climate change will bring soil and disease challenges, along with unpredictable rainfall patterns, Peterborough-based Enduramaxx champions the need to adopt dedicated rainwater tanks, enabling farmers to gain more control over their water supplies.

Charlotte NC Tree Service Offers Innovative Test to Detect Stability of Trees

Treescape™ is a full-service arborist and land management service operating in Charlotte, NC., offering tree service and inspection, tree removal, landscaping and stump grinding services.

Regreen Springfield and Cathedral High to Remove Invasive Vegetation at Quarry Pond

LogoOn Tuesday, January 25th, students from Cathedral High School will join Regreen Springfield and the City of Springfield Parks Department in restoring native vegetation to the woodlands around Quarry Pond in Sixteen Acres, which was heavily impacted by the June 2011 tornado. New trees were planted by community volunteers, and the City, following the storm event, but undesirable vegetation now threatens to overtake the new trees and shrubs that were planted.

Plastic Rainwater Tanks Can Help Counter Potential Water Abstraction Renewal Limitations

As the Environment Agency Announces new renewal procedures for water abstraction, Peterborough-based Enduramaxx emphasises the importance of rainwater tanks to provide farmers with unregulated, free water resources.

Peter Beck Changes His Life Through Saving Wildlife in Africa

Peter Beck has greatly changed his life by choosing to save the beautiful wildlife in Africa. Not all people will be able to dare taking the path in the wild, but Peter has interestingly and successfully took the direction. He is really courageous and should become an inspiration to everyone serving that changes always have some positive outcomes once done in a positive way. This has been proven by Peter Beck with the journey that he tackles in his life.

A New Innovative Robot to Monitor & Save the Vanishing TIGERS

Aveneesh Mathur is all set with an incredible crowd funding project on the fund raising platform of Kick Starter. This initiative is aimed to facilitate the campaign of an innovative robot, which is specially created to monitor the tigers for their safety.

Go Walkabout Runs Kickstarter Campaign to Manufacture Titanium Water Filter

LogoPersonal water filters are great for traveling or enjoying the outdoors because they relieve users from carrying all of their drinking water or from drinking water from unknown sources. However, one must be careful while choosing personal water filters, as many expire after a number of gallons or fail or wear out from the normal wear and tear that goes with outdoor activities such as mountaineering hiking, camping, 4WD, fishing and hunting.

November 16, 17 & 18, the PLMA's Store Brands 2014 Trade Show at Chicago's Rosemont Convention Center Features TG Eco Products Private Label Tree-Free Paper Products

LogoTG Eco Products is the manufacturer of Green2 and Private Label Brands for Retailers and their Treefree Brand for Industrial consumption. Their paper products are napkins, facial tissue, septic safe bath tissue, copy paper, paper towels, dinnerware, notebook filler paper, jumbo roll bath tissue, pop-up sticky notes and other away from home products. Tree free paper is made with sugar cane husk a sustainable and renewable resource.

City of Springfield, MA Police Academy Graduating Recruits to Help Regreen City Parks

LogoThe newest class of police officers in Springfield, Massachusetts, who will receive their badges later this month, will be working to regreen two inner-city parks, as well as planting new trees in front of several neighborhood residences in an effort to help regreen the city. Hennessy Park and Adams Playground in the Mason Square and Upper Hill Neighborhoods of Springfield will be the site of the park clean-up and tree planting on Saturday, October 11th. Starting at 9:00 AM, 29 graduating recruits will begin planting new Sweetgum, Ginko, and flowering trees at both parks, as well as in front of residences on Kenyon Street. The work is expected to continue into early afternoon.

Regreen Springfield Brings New Life to Springfield Cemetery's Historic Main Entry Drive

LogoOn October 4, 2104 volunteers from Regreen Springfield, a non-profit tree advocacy group in Springfield, Massachusetts, planted new trees in Springfield Cemetery, a historic landscape located in Springfield. The planting is part of an effort to help restore the tree canopy in the cemetery decimated by storm events in 2011, including an EF-3 tornado and early winter snow storm. The new trees, which are the same species of trees originally planted along Cemetery Lane, the main entry to the site, offer spectacular color in the spring, summer shade and vibrant spring color.

Canada Zinc Metals Announces New High Grade Drill Results from the Cardiac Creek Deposit, Akie Property

LogoCanada Zinc Metals Corp. (TSX Venture Exchange: CZX) is pleased to announce the Company has received the assay results from the first two diamond drill holes of the 2014 exploration program on the Cardiac Creek deposit. The Akie property is the Company’s 100% owned flagship exploration project and is host to the Cardiac Creek SEDEX Zn-Pb-Ag deposit. The Akie property is located approximately 260 kilometres north-northwest of the town of Mackenzie, in northeastern British Columbia, Canada.

Cavan Receives Drilling Permits for the Tetepiska-West Graphite Project, Quebec

LogoCAVAN VENTURES INC. (TSX-V: CVN) ("Cavan” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce the receipt of permits for drilling and trenching at its 100%-owned Tetepiska-West graphite property located in northeastern Quebec. The Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune Quebec has granted the Company permits to conduct a diamond drilling program, which will be managed by Magnor Exploration Inc. (La Baie, Quebec).

Lomiko Metals is the Beneficial Owner of 4,396,970 Shares of Graphene 3D Lab

LogoLOMIKO METALS INC. (TSX-V:LMR, OTC: LMRMF, Frankfurt: DH8B, Europe: ISIN: CA54163Q1028, WKN: A0Q9W7) (the “Company”) announced August 15, 2014 that it has received approval from the TSX Venture Exchange to the acquisition of 1,200,000 common shares at $0.25 per share of MatNic Resources Inc. The transaction was subject to Mat|Nic Resources Inc. receiving regulatory approval to a reverse takeover (“RTO”) by Graphene 3D Labs Inc. (“Graphene 3D”) (TSXV: GGG) (formerly named MatNic Resources Inc.).

Canaf Group Inc Grows by Investing in Its South Africa Coal Beneficiation Business

LogoCanaf Group, (“Canaf”) the publically listed company on the TSX Venture Exchange, (TSX-V: CAF) is now benefiting from sustainable and organic growth due to the new opportunities generated through its South African anthracite coal beneficiation operation.

Duncastle to Acquire PGMNiCu Properties in Southwestern Yukon

LogoDuncastle Gold Corp. (“Duncastle” or the “Company”) (DUN:TSX.V) has signed a binding Letter of Intent (the “LOI”) with Ashburton Ventures Inc. (“Ashburton”) (ABR.TSX.V) and Denali Resources Ltd. (“Denali”) to acquire a 100% interest in three PGM-Ni-Cu mineral properties located in the southwestern Yukon. The Spy, Ultra and Catalyst/CKR properties total over 262 square kilometers in the Kluane Ultramafic Belt, a 600km-long sequence of igneous and sedimentary rocks extending from northern British Columbia through the Yukon and into Alaska. Within the belt, mineralization occurs at the contact between ultramafic and sedimentary rocks, with the most notable being the Wellgreen deposit. Wellgreen Platinum Ltd. is currently completing a prefeasibility study at the Wellgreen deposit and has previously reported an Indicated Resource of 14.4 Mt at 0.68% Ni, 0.62% Cu, with 2.23 g/t Pt+Pd+Au grade, and an Inferred Resource of 446.6 Mt at 0.31% Ni, 0.25% Cu, with 0.87 g/t Pt+Pd+Au grade at a 0.22% NiEq cut-off (see Wellgreen Platinum Ltd. news release, June 18, 2012).

La Ronge Gold Corporation Acquires 22% Equity Stake in Canfrac Sands

Highlights - La Ronge will retain 22% Equity Stake in return for $1.00 Million Investment in Canfrac Sands

Carmax Mining Develops Copper Resource in British Columbia

LogoGlobal X Copper Miners ETF (COPX-NYSE) is up 8% in 2014. Commodity analysts are anticipating a second round of stimulus from China, which is responsible for 40% of global demand. Factory activity is also expanding in the U.S., the world's second-largest consumer of copper.

El Tigre Silver Reports Assay Results from Ongoing Exploration Program in Sonora, Mexico

LogoEl Tigre Silver Corp. (“El Tigre” or the “Company”) (TSXV: ELS) (Frankfurt: 5RT) (OTCQX: EGRTF) is pleased to announce strong assay results from El Tigre’s continuing year round exploration program at its El Tigre Silver and Gold Project (the “Project”) in northern Sonora, Mexico. El Tigre is reporting assay results from the Southern vein area where a total of 110 surface and 57 underground samples were collected. Assay results from four samples of underground backfill material ranged from 1.28 gpt Au to 4.32 gpt Au and 262 gpt Ag to 468 gpt Ag.

Tesla's New Giga-Plant Will Double the World's Demand for Flake Graphite and Energizer Resources Inc. (OTCQX: ENZR) May Just Be Sitting on the Mother Lode

LogoTesla's New Giga-Plant Will Double the World's Demand for Flake Graphite and Energizer Resources Inc. (OTCQX: ENZR) May Just Be Sitting on the Mother Lode.

Energizer Resources Receives Buy Recommendations from Investment Institutions

LogoEnergizer Resources, Inc. (OTCQX: ENZR, TSX: EGZ), has received a "BUY" recommendation from two prominent Canadian investment institutions. The first was on June 9, 2014 from investment bank, GMP Securities L.P. The second "BUY" recommendation was issued on August 25, 2014 by Stormcrow Capital Ltd. Both reports can be accessed here: Stormcrow Capital, GMP Securities

Three Paddlers to Standup Paddle Lake Titicaca

LogoIn November 2014, three athletes will paddle 90 miles at an altitude of over 12500ft across the length of Lake Titicaca from Puno, Peru to Ancoamaya, Bolivia to raise funds for two standup paddle (SUP) schools in Peru. This epic, 4-day paddle will test the athletes' physical and mental endurance as well as their ability to face the challenges of extreme heat, cold, wind, exposure, and high-altitude.

Will Travers OBE (Wildlife Expert & Co-Founder of the Born Free Foundation), Speaks with Chris Cooper About 'Born Free: Lessons from a Life of Charity & Conservation'

LogoWill Travers OBE (Wildlife Expert & Co-Founder of The Born Free Foundation), will join Chris Cooper on a continuing series, “Be More.Achieve More. - Inspiration for the Entrepreneurial Mind”, streamed on 22nd August, 2014, from 8am(PST)/pm 11pm (EST) on VoiceAmerica’s Business Channel (http://www.voiceamericabusiness.com/ ).

Energizer Resources Well-Positioned to Be Major Supplier of a Critical Material in Short Supply

LogoUPTICK Newswire discovers a world-class graphite project in Energizer Resources, Inc. (OTCQX:ENZR, TSX:EGZ), a mine development and mineral exploration company based in Toronto, Canada, that is rapidly developing its flagship Molo Flake Graphite Project in southern Madagascar to mine production.

Tree Pruning Happening Planned for August 16th

LogoRegreen Springfield, Inc., which aims to improve the urban forest of Springfield, Massachusetts, has planned a tree pruning event on Saturday, August 16, 2014. The "Tree Pruning Happening" will provide tree maintenance on public trees in two of Springfield's neighborhoods that were impacted by the June 2011 Tornado, which ravaged the city. Members of the Regreen Springfield Tree Tenders will provide instruction to those who have not yet completed the pruning workshops offered by Regreen Springfield, and tools will be provided for those who do not have hand pruners or pruning saws. Prior tree maintenance experience is not needed to participate in this event.

"This American Land" Reports on Nature Conservation Frontlines

Our homeland’s natural heritage – its breathtaking landscapes, pristine waters and magnificent wildlife – are often unappreciated, abused and wasted. Conservationists across the nation are dedicated to protecting these resources for future generations, but their dramatic and compelling stories are widely untold. “This American Land”, a fresh and distinctive conservation newsmagazine for television, has brought these stories into viewers’ homes nationwide for four years, and production has now started on season five to be released next spring. As always, “This American Land” will bring serious journalism to conservation issues, reporting with entertaining style on wilderness protection, endangered and threatened species, soil and water pollution, and energy production – the full range of critical conservation challenges that every American should understand.