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By Ry Rivard
Lake George, a beloved Adirondack destination, now has a unified voice among its protectors. After years of overlapping missions and messages, the Lake George Association and the Fund for Lake George will merge.
A popular, unsanctioned beach in the Village of Lake George is getting a water quality makeover to keep pollutants at bay.
By Ry Rivard
Like hundreds of other airports across the country, Adirondack Regional over the years sprayed firefighting foam that contains chemicals now known to cause cancer and other health problems.
A formalized plan is being developed for Lake Placid designed to mitigate a number of man-made and ecological concerns on the lake.
Join Explorer reporter Ry Rivard and Dan Kelting, head of the Adirondack Watershed Institute of Paul Smith’s College, to talk about one of the major sources of water pollution in our region: the road salt showing up in water supplies across the Adirondacks. Ry Rivard has been reporting on this issue for the Explorer. Dan…
By Ry Rivard
Our tap water is so much safer, thanks to the Safe Drinking Water Act, another product of 1970s environmental consciousness, but regulators have done a poor job of keeping up with many emerging threats, including carcinogens, that remain in American drinking water.
By Ry Rivard
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.
By Ry Rivard
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."
Microplastics are polluting Adirondack streams and lakes once thought unaffected by the emerging environmental threat, according to recent research.
The Fund for Lake George, a lake protection organization based in Lake George Village, “is truly a fund, both in name and in function,” according to Jeff Killeen, the chairman of its Board of Trustees.