Environment

The USGS is monitoring turbidity values at the stream project site using grant funds provided by the Ashokan Watershed Stream...

The Onteora School Board voted unanimously to decline an $8.5-million EPA grant for electric buses. The board cited lack of...

On Wednesday, September 27, anyone driving north along Route 9W through Lake Katrine may have noticed a digital advertisement on...

White pine blight and a serial sapling-cutter loose on the Comeau property...

It was announced last year that New York City was preparing to spend $49 million to build a sewage treatment...

The Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Program is hosting the 2023 Ashokan Watershed Conference (AWC) on July 29 at the Bearsville...

We live in one of the world’s safest places in terms of the personal dangers from climate change. Yet, as...

When a debate about environmental conservation two years ago showed some strong differences of opinion as to tactics, New Paltz...

The last time this publication featured an in-depth profile of Manna Jo Greene, it was the year 2000.

Cooperative Extension of Ulster County Master Gardeners’ are hosting a pollinator party in honor of National Pollinator Week on June...

The volunteers working to install a solar system atop the old town landfill in New Paltz have faced numerous obstacles,...

Then the first angel sounded his trumpet, and hail and fire mixed with blood were hurled down upon the earth....

Every generation, it seems, grapples with its own iteration of “worst current environmental catastrophe.”

At last week’s ECO-Action Champion award ceremony local leaders were honored for their commitment to climate action. Pictured left to...

The outgoing coordinator reflected on progress and offered recommendations for the future at the May 18 town council meeting. 

It is commonly accepted that we are living in the Anthropocene era — a geologic time period that began with...

Village of Saugerties has earned an Eco Action award for joining a consortium to purchase energy cooperatively, probably saving money...

The Woodstock Tree Committee and friends recently planted two Arbor Day trees at 1 Overlook Drive in Bearsville.

A report on the conditions at the former Hurley landfill has led to questions in the town about possible pollution of...

Just ahead of Earth Day, on April 20, New Paltz town council members approved the second annual “no-mow May” resolution,...