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New Documentary Explores the Natural Wonders of NYC’s Jamaica Bay Through One of Its Most-Beloved Characters

Don Riepe, the guardian of Jamaica Bay in Queens, is the charming subject of a film exploring the impacts of climate change on one of New York’s most flood-vulnerable neighborhoods—and the city itself.

By Erin Schulte

Don Riepe, a Broad Channel resident, has devoted his life to protecting Jamaica Bay and introducing other New Yorkers to the natural wonders and wildlife living in their backyard.
A still from “Single-Use Planet” shows the plastic pollution invading the tropical waters of Bali, Indonesia.

From Louisiana to Pennsylvania, Tracing Plastics Pollution Back to Its Source

By Kiley Bense

A 3D satellite image of the Mount Unzen Volcano, on the Island of Kyushu, East of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1993. Two years earlier, volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft died there, studying the eruption. (Photo by Planet Observer/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

Two Volcanologists on the Edge of the Abyss, Searching for the Secrets of the Earth

By Kiley Bense

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