An increasing number of whales, whose populations are still recovering from centuries of hunting, are ending up dead on beaches in New York and other coastal states.

Urbanization interrupts what used to be large areas of wildlife habitat leaving smaller unconnected areas that limit food, shelter, and successful reproduction.

Eelgrass provides some of the world’s most important habitat for an incredible array of ocean species and the water off the coast of New York is warming too fast for it to adapt.

New York has the second-strongest gun laws in the country, with one of the lowest rates of gun violence and gun ownership, and now has a gun industry liability law intended to hold gun manufacturers and dealers accountable.

Nearly half of the people in New York live with disproportionate burdens from pollution especially Black and Hispanic people who are also the most effected by the dangers of heat due to the climate crisis.