Environment

By Tessa Wheeler Dr. Yosef Haroush appeared in New Castle Town Court recently to answer why he has failed to comply with most of the conditions of an August 2024 plea agreement related to the clear-cutting of hundreds of trees

By Elaine Clarke  In the weeks leading up to the annual Butterfly Fair, members of the Pleasantville Garden Club meet before sunrise in Barnhurst Park to work on the pollinator garden—creating a space where butterflies and other pollinators can thrive.

By Tessa Wheeler  David Pogue’s path to climate activism was anything but a straight line. After graduating from Yale in 1985, he spent a decade arranging and conducting Broadway musicals. By the early 2000s, he had pivoted to tech journalism,

By Elaine Clarke Croton-on-Hudson officials are preparing to vote this week on a resolution to join a growing regional effort opposing Project Maple, a proposed expansion of a fracked gas pipeline that environmental advocates warn threatens public health, the Hudson

By Chloe Kohl When Scarsdale residents Ron Schulhof and Michelle Sterling first started knocking on doors and posting flyers about food scrap recycling, they didn’t know how many locals would actually listen. Eight years later, their grassroots effort has helped

By Abby Luby A legal battle over radioactive wastewater being released into the Hudson River is delaying the final cleanup of the shuttered Indian Point nuclear power plant — and fueling growing frustration among residents and officials. Wastewater with the

By Larry Epstein Thousands of volunteers lined the Hudson River, from Manhattan to the Adirondacks, for Riverkeeper’s Sweep 2025 on May 3. The volunteers gathered at more than 100 sites and also worked on cleaning up the shore of Raritan