NY advisory group considers forest role in fighting climate change
An advisory panel is considering how forests, forestry and harvested wood products could play a role in the state’s climate goals.
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Saranac Lake joins New York’s growing list of “Climate Smart Communities”
The village is at work or planning energy programs including hydropower and wind that will help achieve the state’s silver designation, Mayor Clyde Rabideau said.
New threats bring call for fresh look at Adirondack lakes
By Ry Rivard
How will cold-water fish, like trout, survive in warmer waters? Are warmer or saltier waters causing lakes to shut down? Why do lakes seem to get browner?
State pauses brook trout stocking to study acid rain recovery
With water quality improving, suspending stocking is good news for the current fish that live in these ponds.
Chargers, wetlands and adaptation make Warren County “Climate Smart”
By Francesca Krempa Warren County’s efforts to become more climate friendly are paying off. After pledging to reduce the area’s greenhouse emissions and create a climate-action plan, the county was recently named an official “Certified Bronze Climate Smart Community” by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. “This title serves as representation of the…
Stoking the home fires with pellets
Those looking to reduce their carbon footprints to slow global warming may look to wood pellets. But whether these systems save people money and combat climate change is a complicated question.
An Earth Day anniversary Q&A with Bill McKibben
"The Adirondacks, in general, have continued to get steadily better—one of the few places on Earth you can make that claim for."
‘Mother Nature’ bonds proposed at critical time for New York’s climate resilience, backers say
By Tim Rowland
The bonds would be part of Cuomo’s five-year, $33 billion plan to prepare for an increasingly unpredictable future. Contrary to massive public works projects that build upon grand piles of bricks and concrete, Restore Mother Nature would play out mainly in the trenches, doing uncelebrated but crucial work such as culvert replacement and restoring forested strips along streams.
Cuomo budget prioritizes fight against climate change
"New York has to be the state that stands up and says once and for all, 'We have to do more and we have to do it faster, and let's pledge the largest amount of any state in the United States of America.'"
The Adirondack flood of the future?
By Tim Rowland
Perhaps most ominously, as the climate grows increasingly tormented, this was not a classic nor’easter, or the remnants of a hurricane tracking up the Hudson. This was just a rainstorm.