Hope for Long Island’s Bays
Pictured Above: Stony Brook students made short work of planting 80,000 clams into spawner sanctuaries in Shinnecock Bay along with
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Nature
Bay Scallop Researchers Explore the Fall Spawn
For the past four seasons, scientists working to understand Peconic Bay scallops have found a clear correlation between the stress
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New Paper Links Scallop Die-Off to Climate Change
The local researchers working to get to the bottom of the die-off of Peconic Bay Scallops for the last three
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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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Sea Turtles in Trouble
Pictured Above: A sea turtle rescued by the New York Marine Rescue Center. |. NYMRC Photo via Facebook As of
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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 Day in the Life” Celebrates Ten Years
For the past ten years, elementary and high school students from all over Long Island have visited different local waterways
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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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New Oyster Reef Restoration Efforts Underway on Shelter Island
The Cornell Cooperative Extension Marine Program, Sylvester Manor Farm, the Town of Shelter Island and local restaurants have teamed up
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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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