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QNS

Borough president tours Queens Botanical Garden, announces report to highlight borough’s sustainability issues

MTA Chair Janno Lieber

Op-Ed

Op-ed | Take the subway and help save the planet this Earth Day

Posted on April 16, 2023

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Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn start-up to launch world’s first ammonia-powered vessel down Hudson River in bid to reduce maritime carbon emissions

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Bronx Times

Councilmembers, Manhattan BP introduce ‘green’ legislation that would change the way New Yorkers dine

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Brooklyn Paper

Revel opens ultrafast EV charging hub in South Williamsburg

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QNS

City announces beach closures in the Rockaways will continue this summer without impacting the boardwalk

Students and parents enjoying car-free Open Streets

DOT to celebrate Open Streets: Car-Free Earth Day with events throughout the city

Posted on April 3, 2023

California’s plan to phase out diesel trucks gets EPA approval

Posted on April 1, 2023

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Schneps Podcasts

New York’s Wind Power Future with Erik Antokal Director of Workforce Development, Orsted

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QNS

Ozone Park native creates environmental music video for Cana Foundation

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QNS

Curbside composting resumes in Queens following winter pause, citywide rollout to follow

Marching to Chase headquarters.

On the first day of spring, activists gather at Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza call for banks to stop funding fossil fuels

Posted on March 26, 2023

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QNS

Queens County Farm Museum hosts class on how to raise backyard hens

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Brooklyn Paper

State agency says National Grid’s proposed gas vaporizers ‘not needed,’ final DEC decision looms

A sloth hanging upside down at the Bronx Zoo. This year, you can run to raise money for sloth preservation during Run for the Wild.

Bronx

Run for sloths this spring at annual ‘Run for the Wild’ 5K at the Bronx Zoo

Posted on March 15, 2023

A protester holding an orange sign that reads "End Police Terror, Stop Cop City."

New York activists join national day of outcry over Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’

Posted on March 10, 2023

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Brooklyn Paper

Coney Islanders frustrated by delayed repairs to Riegelmann Boardwalk, lack of transparency by city

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New interactive map shows where to find peak cherry blossoms at Central Park

Posted on March 8, 2023

NY: Fridays For Future Global Climate Strike

Save the planet – New York City’s youth demands swifter actions

Posted on March 4, 2023

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QNS

Op-Ed: Queens can stop the climate crisis with climate action

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Brooklyn Paper

‘We must get it right’: Northern Brooklyn examines the Army Corps plan for post-Sandy resiliency

Godzilla the alligator found in Brooklyn

Bronx

‘Too weak to eat’: Alligator rescued from Brooklyn pond on feeding tube, has bath stopper lodged in stomach

Posted on February 23, 2023

Godzilla was found in very poor condition after being dumped in the frigid Prospect Park lake.

Alligator rescues more common than you might think in NYC

Posted on February 20, 2023

Brooklyn

LATER, GATOR! Alligator found in, rescued from Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Lake

Posted on February 19, 2023

Flaco the Eurasian Eagle-Owl has become a celebrity in Central Park, but seems in no rush to return home to the zoo.

Freedom for Flaco! Central Park Zoo suspends attempted capture of escaped owl

Posted on February 19, 2023

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Bronx Times

Construction begins on long-awaited $2.5M state project for Bronx firehouse

A dead whale washed ashore at a Far Rockaway beach.

Queens

Another one: Body of deceased whale washes ashore at Far Rockaway beach

Posted on February 17, 2023

Three Protesters from Extinction Rebellion stand with a broken heart statue, pouring a black substance over it.

Extinction Rebellion tells Citigroup to show a heart for Mother Earth on V-Day in Tribeca protest

Posted on February 14, 2023

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Bronx Times

Brutal cold spells test Bronx public housing residents’ resilience, patience for stalled NYCHA repairs

LI Press

Vessel strike blamed for humpback whale’s death on Long Island

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Bronx Times

Soundview’s 1471 Watson Ave., NYCHA’s first all-electric building conversion in 2023

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LI Press

Lido Beach humpback whale is third to die on Long Island since December

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Bronx Times

Dept. of Buildings accused of allowing unpermitted gas work at four Bronx buildings: lawsuit

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Brooklyn Paper

Testing, testing: EPA working to assess size, risks of the Meeker Avenue Plume, Brooklyn’s newest Superfund

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A fridge too far? Living sustainably in New York City by unplugging

Posted on January 27, 2023

Mayor Adams stands with city officials to announce the Queens organics composting program

News

State of the City | Curbside composting will expand citywide by end of next year, Adams says

Posted on January 26, 2023

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Bronx Times

NYC’s first public observatory in Jerome Park Reservoir hopes to bring out the stars in the Bronx

Nation

Climate change misinformation festers on Musk’s Twitter

Posted on January 19, 2023

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Bronx Times

With $11.2M land acquisition, Adams announces major step in Tibbetts Brook watershed improvement project

World

New ice core analysis shows sharp Greenland warming spike

Posted on January 18, 2023

Renovations slated for northern section of High Line

Posted on January 17, 2023

Treasure hunters swear the East River contains prehistoric woolly mammoth bones

Posted on January 14, 2023

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Opinion

Op-Ed | NYC is charging forward

Posted on January 11, 2023

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Hochul calls for ban on fossil fuels in new construction within five years

Posted on January 11, 2023

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Danger in the air: Subway stations near rivers have poorest air quality, study finds

Posted on January 10, 2023

Chris Marte is ready for chipping action.

Mulchfest 2023 — a time to repurpose our holiday trees

Posted on January 5, 2023

Adams

Mayor says 925 electric vehicles will replace gas guzzlers in city fleet, backed by $10.1M federal grant

Posted on January 4, 2023

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Brooklyn Paper

Nearly a dozen of Brooklyn’s community gardens were renovated and expanded this year: Parks

More from around NYC

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Rescued red fox stowaway finds temporary home at the Bronx Zoo

Cops are looking for the suspect who allegedly slapped man on a scooter and tried to steal his ride on Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside on Friday, March 13.

Crook assaults scooter rider during attempted robbery on Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside: NYPD

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Clean-up, construction inch forward at Gowanus Green amid concerns from residents, pols

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Seattle.

Ninth Circuit panel affirms injunction against Montana anti-drag law