conservation

Once the most polluted lake in the country, Onondaga Lake has improved significantly with the help of dedicated conversationalists. But the path toward healing continues.

College students are returning to upstate campuses and facing a situation year-round residents have dealt with for most of the year -- a drought.August…

Some SUNY ESF scientists say a booming world population and over-consumption, are the earth’s biggest enemy. But they say there are things humans can do…

In this archived broadcast from August 3, 1984, John Weeks talks about a ride his wife and him took on one of the lakes as an anniversary gift from his…

SUNY ESF is working to bring back a tree that once made up one quarter of the standing timber in forests in the Eastern United States. Now, researchers…

Solar and wind power have gotten a lot of the attention as promising alternative power sources. But energy extracted from plants, known as biofuels, is…

The new Finger Lakes Museum is kicking up its fundraising efforts to raise $1.3 million in private funds necessary to receive matching state funding for…

John Weeks discusses influential figures from his past and shares some excerpts from a book written by one such man, Aldo Leopold. Weeks relays some…

More than 200 zoo keepers from around the country descended on the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse this week for the 39th annual conference of the…

Tree lovers are uniting behind a plan by a biologist from Salisbury University in Maryland to preserve and encourage old growth Forests . The goal, is to…