In 2002, the United States Army Corps of Engineers entered into a cost-sharing agreement with the DEP to collaborate on a $ 5 million Ecosystem Restoration Feasibility Study of the Gowanus Canal area to be completed in 2005, studying possible alternatives for ecosystem restoration such as dredging, and wetland and habitat restoration.

Reseeding of shellfish in 2005 and 2006 and leasing of the bottom to commercial farmers for clams and oysters have given rise to hope for the ecosystem.

While scientists and environmentalists have discussed ecosystem services for decades, these services were popularized and their definitions formalized by the United Nations 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment ( MEA ), a four-year study involving more than 1, 300 scientists worldwide.

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment ( MEA ) report 2005 defines Ecosystem services as benefits people obtain from ecosystems and distinguishes four categories of ecosystem services, where the so-called supporting services are regarded as the basis for the services of the other three categories.

' In 2005, Piñera created Tantauco Park ( Spanish: Parque Tantauco ) a 1, 180 km2 ( 456 sq mi ) private natural reserve which he bought and owns on the south end of Chiloé Island in order to protect 118, 000 hectares of the region's unique ecosystem.

After the 2005 festival some six tonnes of compost from WOMADelaide waste were returned to the Botanic Gardens in an effort to preserve the delicate ecosystem in which the event is located.

During the 17th century, practical alchemy started to evolve into modern chemistry, as it was renamed by Robert Boyle, the " father of modern chemistry ".< ref name =" Deem, Rich 2005 ">

A version with Alicia Keys was included in Charles ' 2005 duets album Genius & Friends.

** Atlas III was a US launch vehicle ( 2000 – 2005 )

According to research commissioned by the Yerevan office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ), at least one in three working-age Armenians was unemployed as of February 2005 despite several consecutive years of double-digit economic growth.

Hopes that the 2005 Ashes series would be closely fought proved well-founded, as the series was more competitive than anyone had predicted and was still undecided as the closing session of the final Test began.

A sixth annex — on liability arising from environmental emergencies — was adopted in 2005 but is yet to enter into force.

This offence was abolished and replaced by the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005.

In 2005, there was internal conflict about whether or not a gag rule should be imposed on ACLU employees to prevent publication of internal disputes.

Arbor Day ( Sikmogil, 식목일 ) was a public holiday in South Korea on April 5 until 2005.

An appeal of the decision was dismissed on 16 March 2005.

* In 2005, the The Mirror World Asterix exhibition was held in Brussels.

In 2005 Hill was selected as a Fletcher Foundation Fellow.

A court case allowing the União do Vegetal to import and use the tea for religious purposes in the United States, Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, was heard by the U. S. Supreme Court on November 1, 2005 ; the decision, released February 21, 2006, allows the UDV to use the tea in its ceremonies pursuant to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

In 2006 – 07 season the accounting method changed to IFRS, which 2005 – 06 result was reclassified as net loss of € 4, 051, 905 and 2006 – 07 season was net income of € 10, 135, 539 (€ 14. 011 million as a group ).

was in the process of liquidation since 2005.

The results of this work was the report A Public Trust at Risk: The Heritage Health Index Report on the State of America's Collections, which was published in December 2005 and concluded that immediate action is needed to prevent the loss of 190 million artifacts that are in need of conservation treatment.

In 2005 The Arbroath Abbey campaign was launched.

It was repealed by paragraph 26 ( 2 ) of Schedule 7 to, and Schedule 17 to, the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.

* Finkel, Caroline, Osman's Dream, ( Basic Books, 2005 ), 57 ; " Istanbul was only adopted as the city's official name in 1930 ..".

She was honored with a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2005 for her contributions to the entertainment industry.

Aberdour was a 2005 finalist in the prestigious " Beautiful Scotland in Bloom " awards.

Also, Sub-Saharan Africa was part of its region until April 2005, when AfriNIC was officially recognized by ICANN as the fifth Regional Internet Registry.

The road network is extensively used with nearly 2 trillion kilometers travelled by car in 2005, in comparison to just 70 billion km travelled by rail and 35 billion km travelled by plane.

It is not known when Yiddish came to be written down, but the oldest surviving literary document in Yiddish is a blessing in the Worms mahzor, a Hebrew prayer book from 1272 ( with a scalable image online at the indicated reference ; described extensively in Frakes, 2004 and Baumgarten / Frakes, 2005 ):

The beach area to the east of the island, known as Amager Strandpark ( Amager Beach Park ), which had fallen into disrepair since its inception in the 1930s, was extensively redeveloped between May 2004 and August 2005.

He has also written extensively about Charles Dickens, whom he has played in a one-man show, The Mystery of Charles Dickens by Peter Ackroyd, in the film Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale, and on television several times including An Audience with Charles Dickens ( BBC, 1996 ) and in " The Unquiet Dead ", a 2005 episode of the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who.

From 2003 to 2005, Gardener toured extensively, sometimes with the help of Oxford friends Goldrush, in order to personally fund a full length studio album.

After deregulation in 2005, glyphosate-resistant sugar beet was extensively adopted in the United States.

This incarnation of the group has been extremely active, releasing several CD-Rs and DVD-Rs and touring extensively, including a very successful autumn 2005 UK tour, released in 2007 as ...

Holger Czukay has recorded several ambient albums and collaborated with David Sylvian among others, while Jaki Liebezeit has played extensively with bassists Jah Wobble and Bill Laswell, and in a drum ensemble called Drums of Chaos, and in 2005 with Datenverarbeiter on the online album Givt.

# In 2005, the Kataeb extensively participated in the Cedar Revolution, which saw a cross-communal revolt against Syrian occupation.

From 2003 to 2005, Built to Spill toured extensively, performing over 150 dates.

Revolver was met with a fair amount of fan support and critical acclaim, and the band toured the world extensively in support of it, including a second stage spot at Ozzfest 2005.

Elongate concretions form parallel to sedimentary strata and have been studied extensively due to the inferred influence of phreatic ( saturated ) zone groundwater flow direction on the orientation of the axis of elongation ( e. g., Johnson, 1989 ; McBride et al., 1994 ; Mozley and Goodwin, 1995 ; Mozley and Davis, 2005 ).

* He launched far-reaching reforms of the Garda Síochána and introduced severe penalties ( up to five years in jail ) for Gardaí who leaked information under the Garda Síochána Act 2005, after the force was extensively criticised by the Morris and Barr Tribunals and he was embarrassed by high-profile leaks of his plans for the force to newspapers from high-level Gardaí.

During the 2005 general election and since, he has worked extensively with the pro-hunting group Vote-OK, with the aim of returning a Conservative government in order to have the Hunting Act 2004 repealed.

The Dears toured extensively across Canada, USA, UK, Europe, Japan and Australia supporting the international release of No Cities Left and returned to the studio to record in 2005.

Zombies have been used extensively to send e-mail spam ; as of 2005, an estimated 50 – 80 % of all spam worldwide was sent by zombie computers.

Throughout the remainder of 2005 and into 2006, the new-look CKY toured extensively in promotion of their music, headlining the Rock Adio Tour between August and September of the former year.

The 1930s station buildings were extensively refubished during 2005 and 2006.

Lewis is featured extensively in Unyazi of the Bushveld ( 2005 ), a documentary about the first symposium of electronic music held in Africa, directed by Aryan Kaganof.

After being in remission, the cancer returned in 2005 and metastasized to Nielsen's liver and bones, but she continued to give speeches and traveled extensively including to Hong Kong, Vietnam, Australia, Ireland, Alaska, Poland, and she returned to Antarctica several times.

They had follow up U. S. tours in December 2004 and in April and May 2005, while also extensively touring Scotland, England, Ireland, Japan and Australia during 2004-2006.

The Safari was extensively modified in August 2005, which included the addition of a new 3-litre DiCOR engine along with modified interiors and exteriors.

In the PBS documentary Carrier filmed in 2005 ( Episode 7, " Rites of Passage "), a crossing-the-line ceremony on the USS Nimitz was extensively documented.

However this may not have represented a wide-scale industry: a 2005 report for conservancy body English Nature concluded that " there seems no evidence that damsons were used extensively or techniques using them developed ".