environment

Members of Congress are joining with local environmentalists to lobby the EPA, in the hope it will protect the St. Lawrence River and other bodies of water from invasive species.

Committee members are developing a strategy that they hope will give the lake a strong future, by focusing on the surrounding land.

From unseasonable tornadoes to destructive wildfires, climate change is being blamed for severe weather throughout the country. And experts say we’re starting to see its effects in central New York, too.

This November, if voters turn over their ballots they’ll see five proposals to amend the New York State constitution including what’s being called the Environmental Rights Amendment.

Piping Plovers that have nested in Sandy Pond, along the Lake Ontario shoreline, are preventing dredging in a nearby inlet from continuing.

A newly formed coalition is joining with key state lawmakers to campaign for a ballot measure to give New Yorkers a constitutional right to clean air and clean water.

Beaches are coated with plastic pellets, and a container full of nitric acid has leaked. Sri Lankan authorities are now making preparations for an oil spill.

Thousands of Dutch citizens joined environmental groups to charge the oil giant with endangering lives. The first of its kind decision could pressure other companies to take aggressive climate action.

As the weather warms up and Memorial Day weekend approaches, forestry experts are asking all Central New Yorkers to be vigilant about preventing tick…