by John Cronin | Nov 4, 2015 | Ecology, Education, Higher Education, Pollution, Water
Environmental Consortium of Colleges & Universities to Present Rachlin the Great Work Award at its Annual Meeting November 7, Vassar College. There are 3.5 million miles of rivers and streams in the U.S. Add to that our estuaries, bayous, bays, lakes, wetlands and...
by Guest Contributor | May 31, 2014 | Ecology, Recreation, VIdeos
By Susan Fox Rogers Ed Note: No matter how predictable the signs of Spring, nature still surprises us on the Hudson, EarthDesk’s home river. Here Susan Fox Rogers shares her encounter with a baby beaver on North Tivoli Bay. A rare sighting and a beautifully told...
by John Cronin | Jan 14, 2014 | Corporate Responsibility, Law & Policy, Pollution, Water
For five days, 300,000 people of Charleston, West Virginia and the surrounding area lost their regular source of drinking water due to a spill of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol by Freedom Industries into the Elk River. Investigations into the cause are underway. Alarmed...
by John Cronin | Aug 20, 2013 | Animal Welfare, Ecology, Law & Policy, Pollution, Water
Earlier this evening, I laid my tools on the cabin top of the boat on which I was working, and settled-in to watch the rust red moon crawl to the shoulders of the Hudson Highlands. Once there, it continued upward, as if loosed from the grip of gravity, and floated...
by Helane Levine-Keating | May 13, 2013 | Ecology
The Hudson River holds a special place in our collective heart here at EarthDesk. It is just down the road from Pace Academy World Headquarters in Pleasantville, NY, we all live within its watershed, and our education and research programs touch it at every turn. Dr....