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Category Archives: Water
Australia Helps the Fish
Australia began the first steps to create the world’s biggest marine park on Friday. The new park in the Coral Sea will cover almost 1 million square kilometers off of Australia’s northwest coast, the Environmental News Network reported. It will … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Fish, Water, Wildlife
Tagged Australia, Coral, Coral Sea, Environmental News Network, Fish, Sea Turtles
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Unwelcome Biodiversity in Prospect Park?
Some living thing is thriving in the Prospect Park lake, now ”a breeding ground for a dangerous bacteria that’s been known to kill animals and sicken humans,” the Post claims. “Cyanobacteria have been insidiously multiplying on the lake since the … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Birds, Fish, Nature, Pollution, Prospect Park, Water, Wildlife
Tagged bacteria, biodiversity, Cyanobacteria, parks department, prospect park, what the Post is up to
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Haunted Pumpkins in the Garden
The New York Botanical Garden will be haunted for the month of October. In honor of Halloween, the Botanical Garden will feature all sorts of pumpkin sculptures by artist Michael Natiello. Sculptures will feature scarecrows, spiders, snakes, and so much … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Holidays, Nature, Water
Tagged Halloween, New York Botanical Garden, pumpkin
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And you thought the Hudson was bad…
Calling New Jersey “the garden state” always seemed a little strange to me, but now that “rapid development” is draining more fertilizers and pesticides into the NJ waterways, it’s time to change the name on the license plate. Read the … Continue reading
Posted in Pollution, Water
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Greening the city
New York City residents produce more than 1.3 billion gallons of wastewater every day. As part of his PlaNYC, Mayor Bloomberg announced a new green infrastructure plan to reduce sewage overflow after heavy rains like the storms we’ve been experiencing … Continue reading
Posted in Water, Weather
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“The smallest of aquatic soldiers”
A Queens newspaper reported that the NYC Dept. of Environmental Protection is using oysters to remove nitrogen from the polluted Jamaica Bay. Jamaica Bay is composed of 31 square miles of marshland and open water. Apparently, 70 percent of … Continue reading
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Sand Art
Though this isn’t a New York based story, I thought that this was an exemplary profile of an nature artist with a twist. Meet Jim Denevan, an artist who uses sticks, rakes, and other simple tools to create large scale … Continue reading
What’s Your Water Footprint? You’d be Surprised . . .
NationalGeographic has added a water footprint calculator on their website. If you answer a series of short, multiple choice questions, a table will chart your score compared to the national average in various fields such as housing, transportation, and food … Continue reading
Something’s shrimpy…
It seems these days New York City is running into BIG, small critter issues. What with bed bugs and the possible invasion stink bugs, the big apple is being over run by small things. And while we are speaking of … Continue reading
Thirsty?
As I sit here parched in 19 West 4th, having forgotten my stainless steel bottle at home and struggling with the moral difficulty of paying $2.00 for a bottle of Aquafina, my mind turns to free, filtered drinking water. I … Continue reading
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