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Raingardens Are An Appealing Way for Homeowners to Reduce Flooding ...
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Piscataway: Rutgers Enlisting State's Teachers, Students to Fight Against ...
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Saturday is Spring Birding Day
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National Weather Service Issues 'Red Flag Warning' for New Jersey
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The Details About New Jersey Plastic Ban That Begins on May 4
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Union Catholic Students Set Guinness World Record for the Most People ...
By JOHN FERGUSON, SOUTH PLAINFIELD ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION
May 7, 2022SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ - Letting rainwater leave your property can interfere with groundwater recharge and possibly cause flooding, ice slicks in the winter, and pollution of downstream lakes and streams. Rain gardens are one possible solution available to homeowners. Commercial properties can use them too.
Step 1: Decide on rain garden placement
Find out where water is coming ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ – It takes a village to rid a state of spotted lanterflies.
That’s why Rutgers University is enlisting the state’s K-12 teachers and students in a Spotted Lanternfly Eradication Unit through a program designed to teach how to trap and kill the invasive East Asia insect that imperils the Garden State’s crops.
The Rutgers Center for Mathematics, Science ...
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ - The next East Brunswick Spring Birding Day is set for Saturday, May 7. Steve Albert, founder of Birding East Brunswick, will be back!
Those interested will meet at 8 AM at the parking lot at Dallenbach's (East Brunswick Community Park) to look for warblers and waterfowl.
Next, for a change of habitat, the group will head to Heavenly Farms, then Beaver Dam ...
MT. HOLLY, NJ — The National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning for all of New Jersey on Thursday, April 28, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
A Fire Weather Watch will remain in effect on Friday, April 29, from morning to evening, in anticipation of gusty winds and dry conditions.
The alert was issued due to the combination of strong winds, low relative humidity and dry ...
Much to environmentalists’ delight, the New Jersey plastic ban starts in less than two weeks. Hopefully, this law will reduce and eliminate the plastic bobbing around in the oceans (and on land) and being eaten by birds and marine life.
According to the New Jersey Government “Get Past Plastic” website, customers need to bring reusable bags to grocery stores, and stores will ...
Union Catholic Students Set Guinness World Record for the Most People Simultaneously Watering Plants
SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ -- More than 50 members of the Union Catholic Community helped set a World Record for the most people simultaneously watering plants on Friday. Union Catholic is now the home of two world record holders.
Last summer, Sydney McLaughlin (UC Class of 2017), broke the world record in the 400-meter hurdles when she won the gold medal in that event at the Olympic Games in ...