For decades, Riverkeeper has acted as the Hudson River's watchdog, testing for pollution and pushing state and federal regulators to clean up a waterway long plagued by sewage, industrial contaminants ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wondering where it's safe to swim in the Hudson River? Or whether fish are safe to eat? Riverkeeper has an updated interactive map ...

S.A. Dunn landfill is seen looking west on July 20, 2022, in Rensselaer. The landfill collects water runoff from its site and trucks it to Albany wastewater treatment, which ultimately discharges it ...

Lewis Pugh, a British endurance swimmer who is swimming the entire 315-miles of the Hudson River from the Adirondacks to New York City to highlight the critical role rivers play in a habitable planet, ...

When Joe Ritchie thinks of his childhood in public housing in Cohoes, New York, he thinks of black dust. As a kid, Ritchie remembers playing on his neighborhood playground and watching dark dust ...

Despite efforts to improve water quality in the Hudson River, pollution remains a serious problem in the form of PCBs, mercury, discharges of raw sewage, and radioactive water leaking from the nuclear ...

Wondering where it’s safe to swim in the Hudson River? Or whether fish are safe to eat? Riverkeeper has an updated interactive map and online portal that can answer those questions and more, filling a ...