Going Coastal

When Henry Hudson sailed up the Hudson River in 1609, the waterway became a thoroughfare to explore the continent and exploit its resources. (more…)

Kneeling at the edge of the dock, Wen Baldwin began hauling on a length of nylon rope that disappeared into the depths of Lake Mead. One after another, an odd assemblage of objects — a water bottle, a chunk of concrete, a pair of flip-flops, a steel anchor — emerged from the emerald-green waters. (more…)

Jerry Wallace is set—as he puts it—to “unzip” a levee.  A logger-turned-blasting expert with a wiry beard and a well-worn pair of overalls, he carefully checks a tangle of explosives-packed PVC pipe and flexible yellow cord here at the edge of Upper Klamath Lake, in the high desert of southern Oregon. What Wallace is about to do will, in fact, look a lot more like blowing the levee to smithereens than unzipping it, but he is insistent on this point: “There’s no blowin’ sh-t up around here. This is applied physics. This is science.” (more…)

Horseshoe crabs may look ancient and alien and battery-operated, they may look like Wilma Flintstone’s idea of a Roomba vacuum cleaner, yet to the sixth-grade students from Columbus School in nearby Bridgeport, the most outrageous thing about the bronze-helmeted creatures crawling clumsily along the beach was not their appearance but their size — or rather sizes. (more…)

A comprehensive plan to determine why shad populations in the Hudson River are plummeting and help rebuild stocks is being announced by Gov. David Paterson. (more…)

AMANDA CASH stood on tiptoe in the wheelhouse of the Osprey IV, checked the screen of her global positioning system and watched the depth monitors as she steered the 72-foot boat out of the harbor here and into Long Island Sound. (more…)

IT was a normal day for the Manhattan Cup - good fishing, a great party and terrible weather.

It was a steady, cold rain and with northeast winds, the conditions were not comfortable to say the least, but this is one of those great tourneys that even Mother Nature can not dampen. (more…)

In the past year, as the diversion of food crops like corn and palm to make biofuels has helped to drive up food prices, investors and politicians have begun promoting newer, so-called second-generation biofuels as the next wave of green energy. (more…)

There’s a live Web site showing naked underage chicks Downtown, but it’s not likely to be blocked by parental filters. (more…)

Tidal marshland along the heavily polluted Flushing River is being reborn, but the painstaking project is not the work of eager environmentalists. (more…)

Marine dead zones, where fish and other sea life can suffocate from lack of oxygen, are spreading across the world’s tropical oceans, a study has warned. (more…)

About 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is ocean: a source of oxygen, habitat and food. Our ancestors navigated it to build our civilization, and it supports today’s economy. (more…)

Marine scientists surveying a large undersea mountain chain were amazed to find millions of tiny starfish swirling their arms to capture food in the undersea current. (more…)