An increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme events is predicted to occur as a result of climate change. In coastal ecosystems, hurricanes and flooding can cause dramatic changes in water quality resulting in large mortality events in estuarine fauna. Facultative migration behaviors represent a key adaptation by which …
An increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme events is predicted to occur as a result of climate change. In coastal ecosystems, hurricanes and flooding can cause dramatic changes in water quality resulting in large mortality events in estuarine fauna. Facultative migration behaviors represent a key adaptation by which …
Sea Level Rise (SLR) caused by climate change is impacting coastal wetlands around the globe. Due to their distinctive biophysical characteristics and unique plant communities, freshwater tidal wetlands are expected to exhibit a different response to SLR as compared with the better studied salt marshes. In this study we employed …
The Hudson River is much cleaner than it used to be, but antiquated infrastructure still contaminates the waters between New York City and New Jersey with untreated sewage and storm water during heavy rainfalls. A kayak trip can be a hard sell for Noelle Thurlow, who runs a small water-sports …
Part of a nuclear power plant remained offline on Sunday after a transformer fire created another problem: thousands of gallons of oil leaking into the Hudson River. At an afternoon briefing, New York governor Andrew Cuomo said emergency crews were out on the water near Buchanan, trying to contain and …
Sewage routinely contaminates the Hudson River, according to a report released on Tuesday after four years of water testing in which one-fifth of the water samples indicated that the river was unsuitable for swimming and other recreation. The study, issued by the environmental group Riverkeeper, underscores how a big sewage …
All around Stephen Askew was raw sewage, eight feet deep, flooding a crippled waste-treatment plant in Harlem. But Mr. Askew never had a choice; he had to go in. It was three days after a catastrophic fire damaged the plant and began sending waste into the city’s waterways, forcing the …
More than a week after a sewage discharge contaminated New York’s waterways, city officials have finally told residents the magic words: Your rivers’ fecal coliform readings have returned to acceptable levels. Closure notices and pollution advisories were lifted by Thursday night for four beaches: South Beach, Midland Beach and Cedar …
The rivers that run into New York Harbor will be unfit for recreational activities at least through Sunday because of a catastrophic fire that shut down one of the city
Call it a DNA digital Dewey Decimal System for all life on Earth. Every species, from extinct to thriving, is set to get its own DNA barcode in an attempt to better track the ones that are endangered, as well as those being shipped across international borders as food or …
IBM is pushing ahead into providing technology services to manage water, a market $10 billion market that the company sees growing quickly. "This to me is an area that's really going to explode in the next three to five years," said Sharon Nunes, who heads IBM's Big Green Innovations initiative. …
Twenty-five years after the federal government declared a long stretch of the Hudson River to be a contaminated Superfund site, the cleanup of its chief remaining source of pollution began here Friday with a single scoop of mud extracted by a computer-guided dredge. Twelve dredges are to work round the …
hudson river, flowing through many us cities, will soon be depolluted. The us Environmental Protection Agency (epa) recently gave a nod to a massive dredging project aimed at removing around 2.02 million cubic metres of contaminated sediments from a 64 kilometre section of the river. For decades, the epa has …
Scientists have discovered that nature may be slowly scrubbing the lower portion of the river Hudson of its pollution. During a year long study of the river's lower estuary, scientists from the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers and the State University of New Jersey, USA, found that …
new york's attorney general filed a lawsuit against General Electric Company (ge) to put pressure on the industrial giant to dredge parts of the Hudson River that has been contaminated with toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (pcb). Environmental groups and industry have long been at odds over how to deal with the …
