The LI Explorium and Brookhaven NAACP Clean Up 34 Pounds of Garbage During Earth Day
By Abby Bender The Long Island Explorium beach clean-up team collected 34 pounds of marine debris in just under two hours during its 2023 Earth […]
Nature
Two Exhibits Feature the Importance of Botanical Art on Long Island
By Kelsie Radziski The New York Botanical Gardens’ Orchid Show and the Heckscher Museum of Art’s Art in Bloom exhibition, both open until April, introduced […]
Let it grow — Vermont’s community gardens navigate the pandemic
By Sabrina Liguori VERMONT — Misse Axelrod fills bags with soil, seeds, empty egg cartons and written instructions on how to plant and care for […]
Connetquot River State Park remains open, community events are postponed
By Ryan J. Ferguson While gathering a handful of broken crayons, Lisa Hayes glanced over to her 3-year-old son. “I don’t think we can color […]
Workshop teaches Long Island how to rescue their native sea turtles
By Jhonatan Bonilla and Stephanie Melo At the second floor of the Wilderness Visitor Center on Smith Point Beach, the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research […]
Synthetic chemicals detected in private wells near Brookhaven National Lab
By Noor Lone and Sara Ruberg Synthetic chemicals, potentially carcinogenic, were found in private wells examined in Manorville and Yaphank, Brookhaven National Lab announced at […]
Rockville Center science camp welcomes school kids during break
By Mike Gaisser and Irini Orihuela The Center for Science Teaching and Learning (CSTL) in Rockville Center hosted a camp session for kids, to get or […]
Long Island environmentalists take a Walk for Wildlife in Oyster Bay
By Allie Jorge and Ken Fermin More than 100 people attended a nature walk event in Oyster Bay, NY on Saturday for the Volunteers for […]