Local Oyster Farms Get National Funding
Several Long Island oyster farms have received grant funding from The Nature Conservancy and the Pew Charitable Trust’s Shellfish Growers
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Nature
Paddle for the Sound Returns
Save the Sound is back for its eighth year of Paddle for the Sound. For nine days from July 29
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Shinnecock Kelp Farmers Keep Growing
Pictured Above: Shinnecock Kelp Farmers at the kelp hatchery. | Courtesy Shinnecock Kelp Farmers The Shinnecock Kelp Farmers, a multi-generational,
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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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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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