by Bill Barlow - Cape May County Herald | Apr 7, 2020 | Cape May, Ecology, New Jersey
Source: Pat Sutton GOSHEN – It may seem like the world has been turned upside down. OK, it has. In the course of weeks, the once impossible has become commonplace, as the unprecedented efforts to curtail the spread of COVID-19 have become part of daily life. But the...
by Donna Liu - CivicStory | Jan 22, 2020 | Ecology, New Jersey, Other Sources, Sussex, Warren, Water
Careful sampling and analysis is crucial to maintaining clean water sources and cleaning up polluted ones, but keeping constant track of water quality across thousands of miles of rivers and streams in New Jersey is a daunting task – one that would be almost...
by Ambreen Ali - VillageGreenNJ.com | Jan 20, 2020 | Ecology, Essex, New Jersey
The test will be conducted at the base of Floods Hill, where South Orange screens outdoor movies in the summer. (Photo by Ambreen Ali) South Orange is testing organic methods for maintaining grass turf on a two-acre field in Floods Hill this year to determine whether...
by Alexis Shanes - NorthJersey.com | Jan 3, 2020 | Cape May, Ecology, New Jersey
Iconic monarch butterfly populations have declined 90 percent in 20 years, but good weather has produced a bumper crop this summer. Climate change and regulatory rollbacks spell doom for threatened and endangered species. But along the New Jersey coastline, one...
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 Alexis Shanes - NorthJersey.com | Nov 27, 2019 | Bergen, Ecology, New Jersey
Dia, a caramel-colored Labrador, is ecstatic. It’s a chilly day in a Ramapo Valley forest in Mahwah, and Dia, clad in a red vest, is ready to work. Joshua Beese, her handler, wraps his arms around her neck. When Beese unclips a leash from Dia’s collar, she’s the...
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