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SALEM, N.H. — Residents are again lobbying for traffic lights at the intersection of Route 111 and Ermer Road as the town wants safety improvements at the intersection where there’s ....
SALEM, N.H. — Residents are again lobbying for traffic lights at the intersection of Route 111 and Ermer Road as the town wants safety improvements at the intersection where there’s ....
Sea level rise and increased storm events caused by climate change are accelerating erosion along the East Coast, putting communities and infrastructure at risk. ....
Rutgers University has partnered with the environmental engineering firm WSP USA to develop oyster beds that could also protect coastlines from storms, flooding, and erosion. ....
This article originally appeared on FoodPrint. The plight of New York City s oysters has by now been scrupulously recounted, starting all the way back in the 1930s, with Joseph Mitchell s reporting for The New Yorker. It s really a cautionary tale, the likes of which is becoming ever more familiar in this time of climate upheaval and wildlife stressors, about (in this case) a once-vibrant fishery that collapsed in the late 19th Century due to overharvesting and manmade pollution and ambivalence about responsible stewardship of natural resources. Some believe the tragedy lies in the disappearance of a tasty local mollusk from our tables. But it s actually a lot more significant than mere human gustatory lacking. When this keystone species all but disappeared from the Hudson River and also dwindled in Long Island s Great South Bay, and the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays, and in estuaries throughout the South, in the San Francisco Bay and elsewhere on the West Coast it ....