Nature and Environment

I awoke in near-darkness to chirping, peeping and tweeting—the “dawn chorus.” I sat up in my sleeping bag where I was...

August 28, 2011, as water flooded the Upper Jay firehouse, volunteer firefighters Ralph Schissler and Dennis Perpetua...

Emmett and Ethan Smith are on a mission to change the way you think about the electricity that powers your house—to t...

Farmer Dillon Klepetar scratched his head through a wool cap, holding an oversized wrench in his other hand. He’d bee...

Ninety minutes after sunrise on a spring morning, I arrived at a High Peaks lodge with hopes of photographing one of ...

In a picturesque corner of Upper Jay pasture, amid the languorous grazing of Sugar House Creamery’s brown Swiss cows,...

It’s Erik Danielson’s 30th birthday. He strides purposefully, pack on his back, along a shoulder of Route 3 near Ampe...

When Maureen Clark and her husband, Paul Madden, volunteered to have trail cameras installed on their Forestport prop...

When I was a kid, I thought I had discovered the perfect answer to the “What do you want to be when you grow up?” que...

On a typical summer evening the Cranberry Lake Biological Station has a quiet hum of activity: ecology students at wo...

"Miss Perkins, can I get seconds?" asked the kindergartner, raising her hand.

Baby snapping turtles emerge from soft soil as summer ends and autumn begins.