natural environment

With more than 200 wildfires raging across areas of Canada, some regions of the United States may experience dangerous air quality conditions due to t...

ALBANY (TNS) — What is more important: safe roads or clean water? In Upstate New York we can expect snow and, with it, the profuse application of road...

Sydney Zuckerman’s journey to her new position as distribution and business manager at Canticle Farm in Allegany is one of completing a full circle. G...

WEST VALLEY — The Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management and CH2M HILL BWXT West Valley (CHBWV), its cleanup contractor at the West V...

(Editor’s Note: This story is a collaboration between Rochester Institute of Technology and The Associated Press.) HONEOYE (AP) — On a rainy March eve...

WEST ALMOND — Recent logging that removed tall red pine trees near the trailhead parking area for Phillips Creek State Forest is part of the Sustainab...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking public comments regarding a second proposed wastewater disposal injection well in McKean County. In...

SKANEATELES — Farmer Jeremy Brown taps the nose of a young calf. "I love the ones with the pink noses," he says. This pink-nosed animal is just one of...

Hinsdale Central School repeated as Cattaraugus County Envirothon Competition champions at the event’s 32nd edition held at Camp Allegany in the Red H...

ALBANY (TNS) —The Business Council of New York Stateand a consortium of building industry stakeholders has filed a lawsuit challenging new freshwater ...

When we watch birds, we’re seeing them at a point in time. Whether they’re at our feeder or they’re on the ground or they’re making their way through ...

SALAMANCA — In observance of Earth Day, which officially took place earlier in the week, Salamanca area residents of all ages set out Saturday morning...

NEW YORK (TNS) — More than a dozen private companies around the world are looking to profit from extreme measures to combat global warming — filling t...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is a collaboration between Rochester Institute of Technology and The Associated Press. PENN YAN (AP) — A decade ago, Scott O...

OLEAN — Two dozen people gathered in the Olean Public Library community room to mark the day before Earth Day with a screening of the documentary “Cho...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is calling on community groups, municipalities, schools and individuals to celebrate Arbor...

KANE — “Quality deer, quality habitat, quality hunting,” are the words John Dzemyan used at the April Roach-Bauer Forestry Forum to describe the 74,00...

Following a couple of unseasonably cold days, including some snow, the weather will take a warming trend that should last through the end of the month...