by Vernon Ogrodnek - The Press of Atlantic City | Dec 31, 2019 | Atlantic, New Jersey, Video, Waste
SOMERS POINT — It sounded like a great idea at the time: ban all single-use plastic bags. Blamed for killing and maiming sea life and clogging landfills, plastic bags have many detractors. Americans use 100 billion of them a year, with only 1% of those bags being...
by Vernon Ogrodnek - The Press of Atlantic City | Dec 21, 2019 | Cape May, Ecology, New Jersey, Wildlife
All eyes were on the skies during a New Jersey Audubon birding festival in Cape May Point. Bird watchers from all over over the state, and beyond, got their fill of the myriad of birds found in South Jersey from coopers to sharp-shinned hawks. And as varied as the...
by Vernon Ogrodnek - The Press of Atlantic City | Nov 17, 2019 | Cumberland, Ecology, New Jersey, Water
Could eating an oyster be a way to save the planet? Maybe not on a large scale, but it is one way people can take a bite out of New Jersey’s sustainability issues. Oyster farming in New Jersey was once a booming industry bringing in millions of bushels a year...
by Vernon Ogrodnek - The Press of Atlantic City | Oct 6, 2019 | Agriculture, Atlantic, Multimedia, New Jersey
What makes Jersey tomatoes the best? Ask almost anyone in New Jersey why tomatoes grown in the Garden State are the best in the country and you’ll get a wide range of reasons. Some say they’re juicier, sweeter, riper, it’s something about the soil and the proximity to...
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