by Vernon Ogrodnek - The Press of Atlantic City | Apr 21, 2020 | Atlantic, Ecology, New Jersey
Fifty years ago, on April 22, 1970, millions of Americans united across the country to try to bring attention to preserving our environment. The hills of Fairmount Park, in Philadelphia, were alive as thousands of young people gathered for a free concert with the...
by Dan Preston - CivicStory | Apr 14, 2020 | Burlington, Camden, Ecology, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, New Jersey, Other Sources, Salem, Sussex, Warren, Water
Story and video produced by CivicStory as part of “From the Source: Stories of the Delaware River,” a reporting collaborative organized by the Lenfest Institute. The Delaware River watershed provides drinking water to more than 13 million people, including...
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...
