Lela Nargi

1 week ago | anthropocenemagazine.org | Lela Nargi

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Water is cascading in wide, noisy plumes down the masonry spillway of the Conowingo, a 94-foot hydropower dam spread across the lower Susquehanna River in Maryland. Through the river spray you can make out the fish lift. This is a giant metal tub that every spring rises and falls inside a crisscross of metal scaffolding, delivering upstream-migrating shad and river herring to their spawning grounds above the dam.

1 month 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.

Feb 4, 2025 | 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.

Feb 4, 2025 | 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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