Following the discovery of more contaminated soil last year, the cleanup of Manhattan Project-era radiological waste at the former DuPont Chambers Works in Deepwater, N.J., will continue until 2038, ...

This article was originally published in the “In Brief” section of Park Science magazine, Volume 38, Number 1, Summer 2024 (August 30, 2024). Unexpectedly heavy rainfall caused damaging landslides in ...

When residents of Princeton or New Brunswick think of the Delaware River, they may imagine a remote place. After all, this river is less a waterway for central New Jerseyans than a boundary-definer.

But, if you’re interested in the health of the Delaware River, you should say “Yay!” Which is what Jessica Newbern, a biologist with the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River, would say, as ...

All in all, it was a good week for the Delaware River. Two significant developments point toward possible improvements in water quality in the urban section of the river — approximately from ...

In a photo taken in 2017 -- the Columbia Dam before demolition was 18 feet high and 330 feet wide. PHOTO BY MEG McGUIRE Taken in summer 2017, here's the "lake" above the Columbia Dam on the Paulins ...

It’s a late August evening and Erik Silldorff is wearing a red swim shirt and blue trunks and an oversized sun hat that could practically be a sombrero. He leads the way to a section of the Delaware ...

On a spring day more than 300 years ago, the people of the Lenape tribe gathered in their homeland along the Brandywine Creek in Delaware. Hundreds of fish had just begun to make their way from the ...

This article was originally published in South Jersey Climate News, a collaborative environmental reporting project of the Rowan University Journalism Department. Flowing from headwaters hundreds of ...

Amid continuing efforts to curb plastics in the Delaware River, a study finds that the river, among all the waterways in North America, is the leading source of macroplastics pollution in the Atlantic ...

Recent volunteer cleanups at three sites in the Delaware River Basin organized by an environmental group not only collected 900 pounds of trash but also gained key detailed data to help better define ...

The Tookany/Tacony-Frankford waterways are a big name for what is really a rather small stream or two, or three, or more. Actually, much more. They are tucked in tight, mostly to the northeast and ...