Despite it all, there’s a thriving miniature ecosystem of billions of microbes just atop the sediment. What’s more, ...

The industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal, long regarded as a symbol of urban environmental neglect, is being reimagined through ...

Microbes in the Gowanus sediment have evolved methods of coping with and even subsisting off of the contamination, according ...

Using advanced DNA sequence analysis, a research team has discovered that tiny organisms in Brooklyn's highly contaminated Gowanus Canal have developed a comprehensive collection of pollution-fighting ...

GOWANUS — TINY ORGANISMS IN THE GOWANUS CANAL ARE DEVELOPING POLLUTION-FIGHTING GENES, according to research published on April 15. Led by NYU Tandon School of Engineering’s Assistant ...

Brooklyn Org is inviting residents to participate in various volunteer opportunities on April 26, to foster community connections and create the largest single day of volunteering in the borough’s ...

The industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal, long regarded as a symbol of urban environmental neglect, is being reimagined through the lens of scientific inquiry as a complex reservoir of microbial ...