Industrial pollution once ravaged the Adirondacks − decades of history captured in lake mud track their slow recovery
- Written by Sky Hooler, Ph.D. Student in Environmental Science, University at Albany, State University of New York
Scientist Aubrey Hillman, one of the authors of this article, extracts a core of mud from the bottom of Black Pond in June 2025. Patrick Dodson/University at AlbanyLush forests and crisp mountain air have drawn people to New York’s Adirondack Mountains for centuries. In the late 1800s, these forests were a haven for tuberculosis patients seek...