The drought watch directs city agencies to update and ready water conservation measures, while urging New Yorkers to conserve ...

A drought watch is the first of three levels of water conservation declarations by the city. As conditions continue to evolve, the city may declare a drought warning or, subsequently, a drought ...

Almost nothing stood in the way of the pounding waves that crashed into seaside homes in Staten Island’s Tottenville ...

Mike Belleme for The New York Times The death toll from ... his house along a dirt road to check whether water is flowing again through a test meter and a fire hydrant. He has been getting his ...

Cities around the globe are increasingly experiencing dangerous heat as urban concrete and asphalt amplify rising temperatures. Tree-planting programs are a popular, nature-based way to cool cities, ...

HICKSVILLE, NY — For several hours on Friday morning ... the utility company said to run the cold water tap closest to the ...

When a huge tract of land on the Somerset coast was deliberately flooded, the project was slammed as “ridiculous” by a local lawmaker. But the results have been transformative. When a huge ...

Late summer and early fall brought a burst of harmful algal blooms (HABs) for days on end throughout Owasco Lake and our ...

A new robot dog has been announced by a Polish company, MAB Robotics, but this is not your ordinary best friend as it is an amphibious machine that can tread the land and water surfaces in one ...

“In Charles Patterson’s provocative words, the general state of human-animal relations is best characterized as an ‘Eternal Treblinka” This case and the orders that we have been called upon to issue ...

That water is getting warmer. In fact, it's breaking records. At measurements of 300 meters deep, in 2022, the temperatures exceeded 7 degrees Celsius, or 44.6 degrees Fahrenheit, for the first time ...