Are you sick of the watery weather? It seems like the rain has been largely nonstop since June 1 in New Jersey. Indeed, it’s raining right now, with a flood advisory in Ocean County, according to the National Weather Service. Earlier today, we were wit…
Archives for June 2013
Revised FEMA Maps Cheered by Shore Residents, Criticized by Environmentalists
The outcry that greeted FEMA’s preliminary flood maps officially adopted by Gov. Chris Christie in the aftermath of Sandy began almost the moment they were introduced. Many residents would have to raise their homes and businesses several feet on piling…
Buffering the Sun
David Keith talks fast and takes stairs two steps at a time, as though impelled by a sense of urgency. The Harvard scholar is interested in both the scientific and the public policy questions that bear on climate change and has a hand in a surprising r…
New Brunswick Community Farmers Market Celebrates Fifth Year with Additional Location
As it enters its fifth season, the New Brunswick Community Farmers Market has more fresh things to offer than just the produce. Now, in addition to its primary location at Jones Avenue, there is a second location in the heart of downtown New Brunswick, at Kilmer Square Park. Also new is a fresh arrival of […]
Simple Steps to Keep Mosquitoes from Breeding in Your Yard
Rutgers Department of Entomology shares these procedures to help prevent mosquitoes from becoming a backyard nuisance.
Mosquito Menace: Rutgers Research Helps Reclaim Our Backyards
Every year, during the third week of June, mosquito control awareness gains nationwide focus as the American Mosquito Control Association (AMCA) sponsors National Mosquito Control Awareness Week to focus the public’s attention on the work of suppressing mosquito and other vector-transmitted diseases. This national campaign focuses the spotlight on mosquito control and the role of the AMCA, […]
Rutgers gives N.J. farmers alternatives to pesticides
When a barrage of brown marmorated stink bugs descended upon New Jersey in 2010, Hauser Hill Farms was not about to surrender its popular yellow, white and doughnut peaches. Nor was the family farm in Old Bridge willing to sacrifice its harvest of appl…
WATCHDOG: Beach protection but at what price? Shore towns weigh options
Sandy’s level of devastation across the Jersey Shore became a wake-up call about beachfront protection to officials here – so much so that towns are about to spend several million in taxpayer dollars to bolster their fragile shores. Officials from the …
That Lawless Stream [audio]
The Mississippi River is central to the American landscape and imagination. And for centuries, it has served as a battlefield in which our most complicated social and economic struggles have played out. So in this episode, the Guys set out to explore t…
Storm pulls away from Shore; ‘weekend looks actually good’
A strong storm with lightning strikes injured one man and also struck a building as it socked waterlogged New Jersey with high winds and flooding on Thursday. "The good fortune with (Thursday) morning’s storm was it was fast-moving, so there wasn’t…