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The Real Deal on Plastic Recycling
In 2019, two days before Halloween, some of America’s leading beverage companies — including the makers of Coca Cola, Pepsi, and Dr. Pepper — announced a new campaign aimed at promoting plastic recycling and a circular economy. At the centerpiece...
Disease Outbreak That Killed Record Numbers of HV Deer Last Fall is Back
A virus that affects deer more commonly in the South continues killing deer in New York at record levels. State wildlife officials are monitoring the ongoing outbreak of Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) that has been centered primarily on the Hudson...
Danskammer Threatens Valley’s Health and Environmental Justice
Back in 2019, the New York State Legislature passed the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, mandating a decline in greenhouse gas emissions throughout the state. In light of the legislation, the proposed expansion of Danskammer, a fracked-gas power plant...
#FlightWatch: The Valley’s Vanishing Nighthawks
BEEMPP! BOOM!! and again BEEEMPP! BOOOM! On a warm June evening, I would take the kids down to Coxsackie to wait. At the sound of “beeempp booom,” we would look up into the growing darkness to see a shadowy figure with...
Blooming Now: The Valley’s Own Native Cactus
With all the emphasis on native plants these days, you’d be forgiven for shaking your head when stumbling across a cactus on a local hike, assuming it’s not native. But here’s a surprise: two types of seemingly desert-ready cactus are...
Invasive Plants: If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Eat ‘Em
Invasive plants wreak great havoc in the Hudson Valley, crowding out native species that birds and other animals depend on for food and shelter. For the home gardener, they’re also a pain in the neck, seeming nearly impossible to eradicate....
New Valley Research Suggests Biodiversity Actually Cuts Animal-to-Human Disease Spread
In the eyes of many scientists, wherever the wild things are, so are lots of pathogens. It has long been held that new disease-causing pathogens find their way into humans whenever people encroach upon places that are home to an...
The Shad Are Running — But for How Much Longer?
April usually marks the beginning of the shad run in the Hudson River, when adult males and females begin journeying from their haunts in the Atlantic Ocean — somewhere between Canada’s Bay of Fundy and the Virginia coast — to...