In The Wake of Recent Drownings at New York Area Beaches Noted Personal Injury Lawyer Issues Warning to Owners, Operators and Bathers

Sadly, the death of 10-year old Akira Johnson, who was swept out to sea early this month while paddling in the water at Coney Island - one day after four other bathers went missing in riptides at weather ravaged local beaches — will likely not sound enough of an alarm to convince municipal authorities to redouble efforts to protect bathers’ lives,

Time running short for 400-year party

When Bob Bullock stepped down earlier this month as director of the state’s Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial Commission, he left behind a bureaucratic mess.

Bloomberg Offers Windmill Power Plan

In a plan that would drastically remake New York City’s skyline and shores, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is seeking to put wind turbines on the city’s bridges and skyscrapers and in its waters as part of a wide-ranging push to develop renewable energy.

Riverkeeper activists pursue Hudson River polluters

In addition to testing the region’s swimming water quality, Hudson Riverkeeper activists have been pursuing a Catskill polluter allowing acid runoff from a landfill on the Lehigh Cement plant property, and violations at a West Park construction site where workers carved away much of the Hudson riverbank.

Debate over future of Erie Canal echoes its early history

It was an engineering marvel that brought tremendous wealth to New York and opened up the North American interior, helping turn the United States into an international commercial powerhouse in the 19th century.

Plastics Suspect In Lobster Illness

The search for what causes a debilitating shell disease affecting lobsters from Long Island Sound to Maine has led one Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) visiting scientist to suspect environmental alkyphenols, formed primarily by the breakdown of hard transparent plastics.

‘Dead Zones’ Appear In Waters Worldwide

In the latest sign of trouble in the planet’s chemistry, the number of oxygen-starved “dead zones” in coastal waters around the world has roughly doubled every decade since the 1960s, killing fish, crabs and massive amounts of marine life at the base of the food chain,

Developers rally support for traffic tunnel under Sound

In an effort to rally support for a proposed 16-mile tunnel under Long Island Sound that would link Nassau and Westchester counties, the developers met Wednesday with a Suffolk County legislative committee.

Annie will finally get her marker

The day that will once again change the extraordinary Annie Moore story is now on the calendar. And after it passes the famed first arrival at Ellis Island will no longer be resting anonymously in an unmarked grave.

DOCKWORKERS PAC NY’S BIGGE$T WALLOP

Dockworkers, public-school teachers and Rochester billionaire Tom Golisano lead an army of special interests, with nearly $70 million in their campaign coffers, according to an analysis of PAC money.

Unraveling The Secrets Of—Seaweed?

This sounds like the trailer for a bad horror movie: it’s green, slimy and smelly, and its decaying hulk sends beachgoers fleeing in disgust.  It’s codium, an invasive species of seaweed, and the threat it poses to the visitor economy is very real indeed.

Disappearing Butterflies

AS Connecticut’s second smallest town in population (1,106 at last count), rural Canaan, in the state’s serene northwest corner, is so quaint that it is more like a village. In fact, it is best known by its nickname, Falls Village, after its waterfall along the Housatonic River.

Advocating an Unusual Role for Trees

Diana Beresford-Kroeger pointed to a towering wafer ash tree near her home.

Murder at the Regatta

THE shoreline of Little Neck Bay, off northeast Queens, offers some of the most idyllic scenery in the city, particularly on weekend afternoons during summer when the breeze billows through an endless savannah of sails.

Art attack! Waterfalls are killing DUMBO trees

The city’s hottest new public art project is killing trees at Brooklyn’s internationally beloved River Cafe.

Blasting project in Jerome Park Reservoir hits a new snag

City plans to blast at the Jerome Park Reservoir could unleash a plague of rats in surrounding neighborhoods, experts are warning.

Beach disparity in Rockaway is a black and white issue

Call it a tale of two Rockaways.

Maybe it’s about race. Maybe class. Maybe both.

Weiner pours 30M into lifeguard fund

Rep. Anthony Weiner announced new funding to hire lifeguards on Tuesday on the same Queens beach where searchers found a 22-year-old swimmer’s body this week.

For Scallops, New Signs of Life in the Peconics

A FOUR-YEAR project to restore scallops to Peconic Bay, backed by a $1.75 million grant from Suffolk County, has had some success in Orient Harbor, marine scientists say.

Success of aquatic plantings a key to the fate of Jamaica Bay’s ecosystem

A crew of scuba divers will plunge into the waters of Jamaica Bay in October, hoping to resurrect a long-lost marine treasure.

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