07.23.2023 Editorials Editorial: Climate change is at our door. We must confront it now. No matter what eastern Long Island’s towns and villages hope to accomplish in the coming years, all their plans may be scuttled by the sheer force of climate change....
09.18.2022 Columns Guest Column: A climate change briefing for students As a new school year starts, let’s update our understanding of climate change. Here on our idyllic North Fork, we suffer from a malaise that I’ll call “back porch,...
04.02.2022 Columns Guest Column: We need more sensible solutions on climate change I keep hearing that politicians have all the answers to solving climate issues. Let’s get sensible. Spending trillions on supposed solutions is not the answer. Please don’t let politicians...
10.10.2021 Editorials Editorial: We failed with COVID; we can’t fail with climate change Local elections are coming around again and, among other races, town board seats are open in Riverhead and Southold and the supervisor’s seat is up for grabs in Riverhead....
08.15.2021 Editorials Editorial: Great change is already upon us What is ahead for the North Fork in the coming years is very much an open question. In areas such as farmland preservation, the drive to save this precious...
07.23.2021 Environment Experts: Long Island could see ‘very strong increase’ of flooding in two decades A new study has predicted more frequent high tide flooding on U.S. coastlines in the mid-2030s, exacerbated by climate change-induced sea-level rise and tidal patterns influenced by the moon’s...
01.10.2020 Environment Sixth grader organizes ‘Fight for the Climate’ rally in Riverhead Around age 5, Lea Rodger of Greenport, now 11, would tell anyone she ran into that she would be an entomologist when she grew up. “People would be like,...
09.15.2019 Editorials Editorial: The county Legislature’s action on climate change is a very good one Last week, the Suffolk County Legislature took a bold step forward in dealing with the issue of climate change and its impact on our towns, hamlets and neighborhoods. Legislators...
