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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“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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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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Harborfest & Maritime Festival Return

Celebrations of the twin ports on the Twin Forks are returning this September to Sag Harbor and Greenport. Harborfest Sag

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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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