A map of drought conditions in New York state is available on the DEC website. To protect water resources, homeowners in regions under the drought watch or drought warning are encouraged to ...

Another set hit Long Island, near West Hampton, and spread along the Sunrise Highway toward New York City. It is the closest ...

Last year was a good one for New York State bear hunters. The Department of Environmental Conservation reports that hunters in the state harvested an estimated 1,685 bears during the 2024 hunting ...

Strong winds and dry conditions fueled fires and dust storms last week. Dust kicked up by the winds traveled as far as West ...

New York hunters harvested an estimated 1,685 bears during the 2024 hunting season, a 24% increase from the previous year, ...

Aaron Ward, a meteorologist with the Weather Service office in Amarillo said visibility was “nearly zero” in the greater ...

The speed is more than enough to put human life and infrastructure at risk,” Alexander Handwerger, a landslide scientist at ...

"These extremes highlight an uncomfortable truth: managing droughts and floods are two sides of the same coin. Both crises, ...

About 75 percent of the world's food comes from 12 plants. Scientists estimate up to 30,000 species are edible. Not only does ...

Nowicki and the grant’s other investigators are in the process of selecting 10 undergraduates from across the country for ...