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An Unsightly Algae Extends Its Grip to a Crucial New York Stream

SHANDAKEN, N.Y. The Esopus Creek, a legendary Catskill Mountain fly fishing stream that is an integral part of New York City’s vast upstate drinking water system, is one of the latest bodies of water to be infected with Didymosphenia geminata, a ...

From ANTHONY DEPALMA, The New York Times,  15 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Environmental Protection Agency

The World: Flirting With Cuba, Courting a Hemisphere

SINCE Fidel Castro gave up power last year, the long standoff between Cuba and the United States has taken on the measured rhythms of a minuet, delicate steps from Havana met with restrained advances from Washington, each side hiding behind a pose of ...

From ANTHONY DEPALMA, The New York Times,  18 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Fidel Castro,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  Mario Diaz-Balart

Home Work: Two Hands, Two Homes

WHILE it isn’t easy being both guardian and caregiver to a 100-year-old American foursquare in northern New Jersey, where a house has to put up with an awful lot of heat and cold and everything in between, it is more than twice as difficult to take ...

From ANTHONY DEPALMA, The New York Times,  5 Mar 2009

History Lessons on Cuba for a New President

I first set foot in Havana 30 years ago because Jimmy Carter thought he could end the tensions that had torn apart millions of families, including my own. It seemed like a new beginning, but it turned out to be more of the same old story about Cuba and ...

From ANTHONY DEPALMA, The New York Times,  3 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Fidel Castro,  Jimmy Carter,  Henry Kissinger,  Bill Clinton,  Lyndon B. Johnson

Bald eagles in Catskills show increasing mercury

Less than two years after the bald eagle was removed from the U.S. government's endangered species list, an environmental organization in Maine has found an alarming accumulation of mercury in the blood and feathers of bald eagle chicks in the Catskill ...

From ANTHONY DEPALMA, International Herald Tribune,  25 Nov 2008
Related Topics: The Nature Conservancy

A New York State resort offers insight into climate change

NEW PALTZ, New York: It is probably a good thing that the Mohonk Mountain House, the 19th-century resort, was built on Shawangunk conglomerate, a concrete-hard quartz rock. Otherwise, the path to the National Weather Service's cooperative station here ...

From ANTHONY DEPALMA, International Herald Tribune,  16 Sep 2008

Weather History

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. It is probably a good thing that the Mohonk Mountain House, the 19th-century resort, was built on Shawangunk conglomerate, a concrete-hard quartz rock. Otherwise, the path to the National Weather Service’s cooperative station here ...

From ANTHONY DEPALMA, The New York Times,  15 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Andrew C. Revkin

The Curriculum: The Sustainable Hampton

AN old stone and shingle windmill, atop a bluff near the breezy far end of Long Island, is the symbolic heart of the State University of New York’s newest campus. Built around 1713, the mill once harnessed wind to generate power. Later, it was a guest ...

From ANTHONY DEPALMA, The New York Times,  26 Jul 2008
Related Topics: Tennessee Williams

State Bill Expands Pool of Possible 9/11 Benefit Recipients

Even as New York City battles thousands of ground zero workers over their health claims in federal court, New York State is making more workers eligible for health care benefits. The State Legislature has passed a bill that will make hundreds of ...

From ANTHONY DEPALMA, The New York Times,  25 Jun 2008

New Jersey's Experiment With Solar Energy Is Watched by the Nation

With oil prices skyrocketing, demand for solar power is booming. And New Jersey, which has used a rebate program to help install more solar panels than any other state but California, is getting burned by its own success. There is a backlog of more ...

From ANTHONY DEPALMA, EcoEarth News,  24 Jun 2008

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