In “Why AI Needs a ‘Nutrition Label’,” Kasia Chmielinski uses humor and insight to expose the hidden risks of artificial intelligence. Comparing AI to a mysterious sandwich, they show how data—the ...

Over the past decade, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s multiple assessments of the common herbicide atrazine have been filling in the details on its potential environmental risks. Its ...

RPI professor and freshwater ecology expert Kevin Rose, Ph.D., in collaboration with other researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), the Lake George Association (LGA), and Paul Smith's ...

If you maintain a landscape, you deal with weeds. At this point in our hot season, which continues into fall, I’m sure you have devoted considerable effort to keep weeds under control. We employ a ...

In early August 2024, staffers with the Warren County Soil and Water Conservation District and a representative of the manufacturer of ProcellaCOR helped with a 30-day-post-treatment assessment of ...

For the first time since the highly-invasive aquatic weed hydrilla appeared on the Connecticut River in 2016, officials say they’ve begun to turn the tide in their long-running fight against it. In a ...

Bayer announced July 30 that it has submitted applications in four major agricultural markets—the European Union, Brazil, Canada, and the United States—for a new herbicide with a new mode of action, ...

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and a coalition of state lawmakers, environmental groups, and advocates gathered Friday along the Connecticut River to counter what they called misinformation ...

Proposed spraying of the chemical in the Connecticut River set off a viral opposition campaign. Its use in CT is widespread Alicea Charamut, executive director of Rivers Alliance of Connecticut, ...

Alicea Charamut, executive director of Rivers Alliance of Connecticut, responds to the comments of constituents who are angry about the use of diquat in the Connecticut River, on July 18 in Deep River ...