Riverkeeper joined staff from Peekskill Brewery and Captain Lawrence Brewing Co. in Peekskill Friday to brew the first collaboration beer made to support our mission of protecting the Hudson River and clean drinking water. Are we excited? Um, yes. You should be to. Why? It’s […]
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Brian Brigham, graduate student at Queens College School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, researches invasive plants (trapa, or water chestnut) and greenhouse gas production during a Hudson River patrol with Riverkeeper's Capt. John Lipscomb at Inbocht Bay on the Hudson River.
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Enough talk, GE: Now’s the time to take responsibility and undo the full damage from PCBs in the Hudson. Stop holding back local business growth. Yesterday, Riverkeeper joined elected officials and business and environmental groups to appeal for action. Our broad-based coalition demanded that General […]
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Peekskill Brewery and Captain Lawrence Brewing Co. are brewing a first-of-its-kind collaboration beer to benefit Riverkeeper. The harvest ale will be brewed at Peekskill Brewery, and will be available to the public at the third-annual Hudson Hop and Harvest festival October 4, from 2-9 p.m. […]
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There’s no substitute for having eyes on the water. The Quassaick Creek Watershed Alliance began water sampling in partnership with Riverkeeper this month, and already they have identified pollution affecting the City of Newburgh’s drinking water. On August 7, citizen scientists sampled for fecal-indicating bacteria […]
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A citizen scientist delivers a water sample from the Rondout Creek to Capt. John Lipscomb aboard the Riverkeeper patrol boat in 2013.
Three communities are coming together to study the watershed of the tidal Rondout Creek, and develop a management plan that is expected to put a high priority on improving water quality in the largest tributary to the tidal Hudson.
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Riverkeeper and the HSBC Water Programme visited Newtown Creek in August. HSBC Water Programme is a generous funder of Riverkeeper's water quality program, which tests the Hudson River estuary and watershed monthly at more than 180 locations, with the help of citizen scientists. HSBC also coordinates its own employees in a citizen science water quality monitoring program called FreshWaterWatch.
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The Guardian
What a sight – humpback whales rising out of the ocean with the Empire State Building for a backdrop. New York is gaining headlines as “the New Cape Cod” with surging numbers of fish, whales, seals, sharks and dolphins to go along with increasing numbers […]
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The crude oil tanker Afrodite passes under Walkway Over the Hudson, near the drinking water intakes for the City of Poughkeepsie and the Town of Lloyd.
The transportation of crude oil in the Hudson Valley has been permitted without any comprehensive study of risks to the environment and public safety–and a dangerous expansion of this industry could further endanger the drinking water for thousands of residents. To alert communities to the […]
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This morning we saw our friend Patrick Landewe, Saugerties Lighthouse Keeper – and we had the pleasure of meeting Cricket, Lighthouse Baby. What a delight.
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