The state of New York has temporarily shut down a hiking trail in the Adirondack mountains due to a moose that is engaging in ...

A bull moose exhibiting "unusual behaviors" has forced the closure of the Goodman Mountain trail in New York's Adirondack ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has warned hikers about the presence of a potentially dangerous moose near Tupper Lake. The moose’s unusual behavior prompted DEC staff to ...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul sent a team of 11 wildland firefighters to aid with wildfires in Colorado, showing interstate ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has announced a new state record brook trout. Benjamin Ferguson, ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has issued an advisory concerning the high peaks of the ...

The DEC has issued an air quality health advisory for most of upstate New York due to elevated levels of fine particulate ...

New York State regularly deploys highly trained wildland firefighters to help battle fires and support incident response in ...

NEW YORK — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) launched a new podcast, “DEC Does What?!’. Each episode will feature conversations with DEC experts about the ...

As New York State environmental regulators fine-tune proposed rules governing a controversial natural-gas extraction process, wastewater disposal has emerged as a challenging issue. By Mireya Navarro ...

Basil Seggos, head of the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, plans to resign from his post later this year. Seggos has led the department since October 2015, the longest tenure for ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, or NYSDEC, recommends taking the right precautions ahead of time to prevent any unwanted incidents with a hungry bear.