HuffPost Live Subjected to decades of waste dumping, the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NY is one of the United States' 1,328 Superfund sites - highly polluted environments prioritized for cleanup. However, if the proposed EPA cuts by the Trump Administration come to Read more ... fruition sites like this will lose 30% of its cleanup funds.

The New York Times - Travel Avoid going near the Gowanus Canal no longer

The New York Times - Travel Avoid going near the Gowanus Canal no longer

The New York Times - Travel Going beyond the canal.

The New York Times - Travel Yes, there's the canal. But what surrounds it is delightful.

Fast Company Watch how researchers are using the bacteria that manages to live inside the toxic Gowanus Canal to repair centuries of damage.

Daily Mail The Simpsons’ three-eyed fish is REAL

Fast Company "This is arguably the most polluted body of water in North America. I don't think anyone has ever stood next to the Gowanus Canal and said I want to swim there."

Newsweek When people tell this water activist that he's crazy for swimming in the Gowanus Canal he says, "What’s crazy is that the most polluted waterway in the United States is in the greatest city in the world. If we’re the greatest city on Earth, let� Read more ... �s clean this stuff up!"

The Wall Street Journal To celebrate Earth Day, one environmental activist planned to swim Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal - called “one of the nation’s most extensively contaminated water bodies.”