Petition to stop state’s killing of red foxes on Jersey beach nears 80K signatures
CAITLYN STULPIN / NJ.COM - Residents of Brigantine speculated for years about the state's role in the dwindling numbers of their beloved unofficial mascots, the red fox [go to article]
Attention, New Jersey: You’re treating our rivers like ‘garbage cans.’ Stop.
MICHAEL SOL WARREN / NJ.COM - It is Earth Day weekend 2018, and around the Garden State thousands of volunteers will wade into streams and rivers to pull hundreds of tires [go to article]
This unique restoration project has been successful. Will the state expand it?
MICHAEL SOL WARREN / NJ.COM - Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, bobwhite quail are slowly returning to New Jersey. The birds, sometimes called a firebird [go to article]
Will Murphy let company dump treated wastewater into Delaware River?
TOM JOHNSON / NJ SPOTLIGHT - At one time, the sprawling 1,455-acre DuPont Chambers Work facility was the largest commercial wastewater treatment plant [go to article]
PFOA: No one knows how much of the cancer-causing chemical is in our water
RUSS ZIMMER / APP.COM - Drinking water contamination from a family of industrial chemicals linked to cancer and other health problems is not just a New Jersey [go to article]
South Jersey’s beloved Cowtown Rodeo land receives federal funds
BRENDA FLANAGAN / NJTV NEWS - Cowtown defies modern stereotypes. Founded in 1929 and run by five generations of the Harris family, the weekly rodeo [go to article]
Swamp microbe has pollution-munching power
SCIENCE DAILY - Sewage treatment may be an unglamorous job, but bacteria are happy to do it. Sewage plants rely on bacteria to remove environmental toxins [go to article]
Foreign fly threatens NJ vineyards
NICK MUSCAVAGE / MYCENTRALJERSEY.COM - The state's growing wine industry is threatened by a foreign fly that is already wreaking havoc in Pennsylvania [go to article]
Climate change is messing with your dinner
AGNIESZKA DE SOUSA and HAYLEY WARREN / BLOOMBERG - The world’s dinner tables are seeing the impact of climate change [go to article]
Historic Cowtown Rodeo’s grasslands preserved in $2.6-million deal
FRANK KUMMER / PHILLY.COM - Almost 375 acres of grassland surrounding Cowtown Rodeo in Salem County will be permanently preserved under an agreement financed [go to article]
