ecology

Over the last two decades, my mother has devoted herself to creating a small homestead farm in Upstate New York. I’ve had a front-row seat to the trib...

NEW YORK (TNS) — It’s routine practice for government officials to kill animals deemed invasive or destructive. For the most part, Americans accept th...

A number of invasive species — plants, animals and pathogens that are not native and cause harm to the environment, agriculture, economy or public hea...

Possible thunderstorms this afternoon may produce heavy rainfall with a high in the mid-70s. Tonight mostly cloudy with showers likely and a chance of...

Camp Rushford in Allegany County, operated by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, still has limited spots available for femal...

OLEAN — A 40-year push to clean up industrial pollution on Seneca Avenue will continue with the former owner paying, the Environmental Protection Agen...

Among the many ways New York is still paying for the erratic-but-forceful leadership of ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the soaring expense and growing unreliab...

OLEAN — The owner of another site in the North End is hoping to get a property added to the state’s brownfield program. The state Department of Enviro...

Virtually all the plastic packaging that enters your life is designed to be used once, then discarded, a major reason why we have a waste-management c...

Plans have been scrapped for the low-flying training zone over north central Pennsylvania and the Southern Tier of New York. “The Air Force and Nation...

Millions of dollars will be available to help replace the tens of thousands of suspected lead water pipes statewide thanks to a federal law. U.S. Sena...

As big as it is, the state’s new budget fails to address a host of crises — and the lack of urgency is troubling. Remember the opioid crisis? It never...

HINSDALE — On a wet and soggy day with persistent rain, Hinsdale Team 1 braved the elements to take the top spot at the Cattaraugus County Envirothon ...

CORTLANDT (TNS) — The company that owns the defunct Indian Point nuclear facility in Westchester County is suing New York in federal court over its ba...

Reality Check teens from Olean pitched in the week of Earth Day by cleaning up tobacco litter along North Union Street. “Picking up cigarette butts, v...

ALBANY (TNS) — After months of demonstrations by supporters and negotiations among lawmakers, the proposed New York Home Energy Affordable Transition ...

ALBANY — Nature wraps bananas and oranges in peels. But in some modern supermarkets, they're bagged or wrapped in plastic too. For Judith Enck, that's...

A group of eight Democratic progressive U.S. House members known as “The Squad” have filed $224 million of earmarks in the federal budget since 2023 t...