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  The former horse-racing track in Garden City, Idaho, has been transformed into a nearly 50-acre public park, known as the Park at Expo Idaho, funded through the American Rescue Plan Act. The project aims to bring the site's natural landscape back into focus and offers a new outdoor destination with its olympic class skate park and playgrounds. The park's design includes features inspired by the horse-racing venue, allowing visitors to experience the site's history alongside its renewed purpose.

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• Iowa launches $4.9m project to reclaim 150 acres of abandoned coal mines

  Iowa launches $4.9 million project to reclaim 150 acres of abandoned coal mines, marking a significant step in the state's commitment to environmental restoration. This initiative, funded by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, includes four new projects in Mahaska and Marion counties, following ongoing efforts to reclaim 7,195 acres since 1980, with a total investment of nearly $117 million. The project aims to improve water quality, soil health, and agricultural use, as evidenced by the BOS r…

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• The lowest place on Earth is still sinking, and so is everything around it

  The Dead Sea, a landlocked lake at the lowest point on Earth, is experiencing significant environmental changes, with its water level receding by approximately 4 feet annually and its surface area shrinking by about a third over the past five decades. The lake is now leaving behind a new landscape of salt-encrusted shorelines and sinkholes, and its water levels have dropped by more than 90% since the 1970s. The shrinking Dead Sea is also causing the river to carry only 100 million cubic meters of water annually co…

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