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Animal ESP: How Animals Predict Hurricanes

Learn about what happens to wildlife during the tropical season.

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Beautiful restoration occurring along the Bronx River by non-profits, young people, landscape architects, and city planners.

“I come here all the time,” he said. “It’s incredible, no?”

Yes, it is.

For years one of the most blighted, abused waterways in the country, the southern end of the Bronx River has been slowly coming back and with it the shoreline that meanders through the South Bronx. Next year, barring further delays, what looks to be an innovative work of green architecture, by the Brooklyn firm Kiss & Cathcart, is slated to open in Starlight Park, a green stretch upriver from Hunts Point Riverside. This summer at the mouth of the river another street-end pocket park, Hunts Point Landing, is opening between a Sanitation Department depot and a food processing plant.

The New York waterfront is changing perhaps more than any other part of the city. For centuries the interests of big money and industry shaped it. These days, notwithstanding dogged efforts by the Economic Development Corporation to kindle business along the waterfronts of Sunset Park in Brooklyn and on Staten Island, the city’s old industrial waterfront is in many places giving way to parks and luxury apartment towers where money still talks, like along the Hudson.

But compared with headline-making projects in Manhattan and Brooklyn, the unexpected renaissance under way along the south end of the Bronx River flies largely below the radar. Park by park a patchwork of green spaces has been taking shape, the consequence of decades of grinding, grass-roots, community-driven efforts. For the environmentalists, educators, politicians, architects and landscape designers involved, the idea has not just been to revitalize a befouled waterway and create new public spaces. It has been to invest Bronx residents, for generations alienated from the water, in the beauty and upkeep of their local river.

Watch the inspiring or have a read at the NYTimes: River of Hope in the Bronx

Heavy Storms to Rattle New York, Pennsylvania on Friday

A cold front, representing the leading edge of a bubble of cooler, crisp air, will spark heavy thunderstorms across the Northeast on Friday. Flash flooding and damaging winds will be the primary threats, especially across the interior.

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Mutant Butterflies Found After Fukushima Nuclear Disaster In Japan (VIDEO) @huffingtonpost.com

This was something I took in October 2011 while in Hawaii using a Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT using ISO setting: 800. I was very impressed when I saw it because of the beautiful blend of colors in the horizon as the sun was rising. I’ve been unable to recreate this. THIS PHOTO IS NOT EDITED OR MANIPULATED IN ANY WAY!

Horrible Ragweed Season Expected in East for Fall 2012

Allergy sufferers across the East may be reaching for more tissues this fall with a strong ragweed season forecast.

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Bring your Bat-umbrella.

Shot this in Chesapeake in the winter of 2010-2011.

Strong Storms from Indianapolis to Shreveport

As a storm system continues to cross the country, so does the threat for severe weather, which will shift to a corridor from Indianapolis to Shreveport on Monday and Monday night.