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Ask a Scientist: Climate research

By Zachary Matson

We talk with climate scientist Curt Stager about a recent paper he published

Teaching climate change, minus the dread 

By Izania Gonzalez

The Summer Institute for Climate Change Education in Lake Placid taught youth the tools they need to make change happen.

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Activist Bill McKibben offers climate hope, calls for action

By Tracy Ormsbee

Activist Bill McKibben talks lack of snow, climate action and hope for change during FISU Save Winter conference keynote address.

Generation Z contemplates climate concerns

By Chloe Bennett

Wild Center’s Youth Climate Leadership Retreat in early August helps high schoolers envision their future.

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Equipped for snowmaking

By Tom French

Whiteface weather warriors use all the tools to get the job done

Cold-weather venues face winter woes

By Times Union

Recreation businesses, events grapple with warm winter

Cornell researcher Stephen Jane working in the Adirondacks

Research shows Adirondack lakes are losing oxygen

By Zachary Matson

Fish habitat at risk

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Study: Shorter Adirondack winters coming

By Zachary Matson

Paul Smith’s climate researchers forecast decline of outdoors culture, species disruption

Gov. Kathy Hochul

Where’s the 30-by-30 bill?

By Gwendolyn Craig

Legislation encouraging state protection of 30% of its lands and waters by 2030 has yet to lap Gov. Kathy Hochul's desk.

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Ask A Scientist:  DEC Air Pollution Meteorologist Bob Gaza 

By Megan Plete Postol

Meet one of the scientists charged with monitoring air quality for the Adirondacks and surrounding regions

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