Blue Water Task Force Warns of Bacteria at Beaches, as Volunteers Collect Record Amount of Data
The Blue Water Task Force, a volunteer science program involving three East End nature organizations, had a banner year on
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Citizen Science
Shelter Island Teams Up with CCE to Build Seahorse Hotels
by Jeanne Marie Merkel & Beth Young On an afternoon in late May, just after school let out, Shelter Island
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Students Explore Sandy’s Lessons for Sag Harbor’s Soggy Future
Hurricane Sandy was a formative experience for many young people on the East End who experienced the floodwaters inundating the
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Baykeeper Launches Community Project to Document Peconic Bay Shoreline
Pictured Above: Peconic Baykeeper Director of Outreach Alexa Annunziata and Baykeeper Pete Topping install a station at the New Suffolk
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International Coastal Cleanup Day is This Saturday
Pictured Above: The 2022 Surfrider beach cleanup at 67 Steps Beach in Greenport. |. Chris Hamilton photo (@northforkfisherman) for the
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Ospreys Continue to Rebound
Long Island’s osprey population continued its dramatic rebound in the summer of 2022, according to statistics released in late January
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DEC Shares Results of Invasive Herbicide Treatment in the Peconic River
After more than a decade of trying to remove a invasive floating primroses from the Peconic River by hand, the
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Citizen Scientists to Document Riverside’s Water & Air
Pictured Above: Wildwood Lake is just one of the water bodies that is being sampled under the new program. The
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A “Summer of Discontent” in Long Island Waters
There were record numbers of fish kills, dead zones and toxic tides, intensified by summer heat, in Long Island’s estuaries
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Generations Together: Building an Oyster Reef in Springs
About 50 sixth graders from The Springs School met not far from their school, at the end of Landing Lane
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Film Fest Celebrates the Clean Water Act
The Peconic Baykeeper presents the Wild & Scenic Film Festival, on tour to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Clean
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