Zachary Matson

DEC opens funding for road salt reduction Communities interested in reducing their road salt use will now have a new source of state funding to draw on. The state Department of Environmental Conservation included new grants in its core funding programs that aim to support municipalities on their path to minimizing their road salt use. The grants — through the state’s major water quality improvement program and a pollution control planning program — mark a step toward carrying out the recommendations in last year’s Adirondack Road Salt Reduction Task Force report. Open to municipalities and Native American nations, the » Continue Reading.

A leading climate educator in the federal government says regions like the Adirondacks will become more appealing in the future.

Talking climate education In May, the Wild Center and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) hosted a workshop for climate educators around the country. Representatives from K-12 schools, universities, museums, nonprofits and other institutions who use NOAA data visualizations and grants met for three days at the center in Tupper Lake. Louisa Koch, who has served as NOAA’s director of education since 2006, and I sat down on the Wild Center’s patio for an interview about climate change education, the Adirondacks and the challenges of balancing conservation and renewable energy development. Koch, who remembered visiting the Adirondacks as a student at Middlebury, discussed what she sees as » Continue Reading.

Controversy escalates as Lake George officials push for herbicide use despite environmental and health concerns around PFAS.

A bill to establish greater oversight of statewide road salt reduction won quick passage in the state Senate this month but ran out of time for Assembly consideration.

Dozens more Adirondack lakes qualify under a state septic replacement funding program for the first time this year.

To some, the Boquet River is overlooked and underappreciated. But a band of devoted volunteers are working to ensure it gets the attention it merits.

A defamation claim brought by a marina developer over a critical ad published in the Adirondack Explorer was dismissed this week.

Should the state be responsible for managing invasive milfoil on a lake where it is the primary shoreline owner? Residents around Horseshoe Pond and Deer River Flow think so.

Leaders of Lake George Park Commission, Lake George Association promise a restoration of collaboration, as LGA plans to drop lawsuit over ProcellaCOR use