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As we approach the cold and flu season, a few of our nearby streams and rivers are just now getting over some serious congestion.

Accidentally imported from Asia into the eastern U.S. in the 1950s, the adelgid spread through the mid-Atlantic States and reached our area several years ago.  

The issue of hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas from deep shale deposits has become increasingly difficult to ignore.

West Nile virus is a human health risk because it can cause sickness and death when mosquitoes transmit the pathogen from an infected bird to a person.

If you ran a tourist agency for time-travelling, intergalactic visitors, what attractions do you think would bring aliens to Earth in 2010?

When we think about the water cycle, most of us remember the diagram we were taught in third grade.

When we see where the water meets the land, how many of us have considered how different types of shorelines influence the plants and animals residing in the river?

The joy in seeing the first flowers of spring is always countered by dismay over the reappearance of mosquitoes

A class of second-graders at St. Joseph School, Millbrook, gathers around a study plot in the grass of their schoolyard, marked by four pink flags in the shape of a square. 

Losses of our local fish have been so severe that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has completely closed commercial and recreational fishing for American shad in the Hudson River.

A volcano erupts in Iceland, and cinders and sulfur dioxide are spewed into the atmosphere. 

We identify the seasons through changes in biological and physical phenomena such as flowering, breeding or animal migration that mark an expected break in the pace of nature.

When I was 13 years old, and supportive adults asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would enthusiastically blurt out, "I want to be an ecologist!"

Some French colleagues of mine recently discovered if you take cows up to the alpine pastures along the ski trails during or just after rain, they, not surprisingly, leave hoof prints.

The United Nations has proclaimed 2010 to be the International Year of Biodiversity. 

Modern life is filled with an amazing assortment of chemicals. 

Willie Nelson once sang that he only missed his ex-lover on three days: yesterday, today and tomorrow. This simple division of time works as well for invasive species as it does for heartbreak.

When people think about climate change, the first thing that usually comes to mind is blazing hot summer days, severe droughts, or super-size hurricanes. But climate change is actually more significant in winter than in summer.

Most of us learned in school that plants produce oxygen and consume carbon dioxide, while animals (like us) consume organic matter (such as carrots and burritos) and oxygen and produce carbon dioxide.