Lela Nargi

3 weeks ago | foodprint.org | Kristen Link |Lela Nargi

Come the weekend after Thanksgiving, New York City farmers’ market devotees resign themselves to five months of a dwindling parade of storage crops that grow increasingly withered and pale as the wintry weeks plod on. It’s all woody turnips and softening potatoes, supplemented with supermarket SSOs (strawberry-shaped objects, in the words of kid-lit author Rebecca Stead), from December on. Unless, that is, you live near a market that hosts a Lani’s Farm booth.

2 months ago | savingseafood.org | Lela Nargi

February 4, 2025 — The glass eels, 3 inches long with skin so translucent it reveals the beating of their tiny hearts, writhe with unexpected strength in the palm of a hand. For a year they have ridden the tides from their hatching site, in the Sargasso Sea, to the mouth of upstate New York’s Saw Kill Creek, a narrow tributary of the Hudson River. That’s where a fyke net set out by biologists,  migratory American eels as they seek clear and flowing creeks in which to mature, captures them.

2 months ago | e360.yale.edu | Lela Nargi

More than 30,000 small dams currently block river tributaries from Maine to Maryland. New initiatives to remove them are aimed at restoring natural flows, improving habitat for aquatic life, and reopening thousands of river miles to migratory fish, from shad to American eels. The glass eels, 3 inches long with skin so translucent it reveals the beating of their tiny hearts, writhe with unexpected strength in the palm of a hand.

Dec 2, 2024 | technewstube.com | Lela Nargi

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Dec 2, 2024 | arstechnica.com | Lela Nargi

battling the brackish water Some say it’s a costly pipe dream; others say it’s part of the future. Ralph Loya was pretty sure he was going to lose the corn. His farm had been scorched by El Paso’s hottest-ever June and second-hottest August; the West Texas county saw 53 days soar over 100° Fahrenheit in the summer of 2024.