Adirondack Explorer
For a recent story on Lake Champlain, I came across another effect of climate change I hadn’t thought much about: water pollution.
Over the years, we’ve begun to brace for obvious things that happen when it warms up — changes like less snow, something that could have profound and devastating effects on the local ski industry.
Bacteria in Champlain—cupped by New York, Vermont and Quebec—are feeding on polluted runoff from around the lake, especially Vermont’s dairyland, and thriving in water that is warming along with the rest of the globe.
The only way to prevent a bloom is by targeting and stopping the source of excessive nutrients.
During his major “state of the state” speech last week, the governor called the bond measure, which voters would see on the ballot this November, “the nation’s most aggressive program for significant habitat restoration and flood reduction.”
One of the most basic but overlooked records of water safety is the annual drinking water quality report that water systems send customers each year.
The roughly $24 million project is a necessary water-quality protection measure for Lake George, but it has also been a taxpayer nightmare.
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.
This group of young activists conducts their meetings in accordance with the standards laid out by the Sunrise Movement, a nationwide organization founded in 2017 that mobilizes and unites young people across the U.S. in an effort to lobby lawmakers to adopt legislation that will transition our economy away from its reliance on oil, gas and coal.
Issues surrounding lake conservation can be expensive and complicated. Water quality decline can happen for numerous reasons: storm-water runoff, faulty septic systems, aquatic invasive species and other problems.
While most of the schools represented at the summit are in the Adirondacks, students also traveled from other places including Brooklyn, Troy, Utica and Canton.
Started in Vermont in partnership with the Tree Farm forestry certification program and other agencies, the warbler effort aims to knock some of the Northeast’s dense forests back into an earlier succession that favors certain birds and the insects they eat.
A new task force has been formed to take on issues related to high use in the High Peaks region, the state Department of Environmental Conservation announced Thursday.
