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...
08.30.2019 Editorials Editorial: Climate change is here and it is now A map of warming temperatures across the United States that ran this month in The Washington Post shows that all of Long Island has already approached a significant threshold...
07.18.2019 Environment Riverhead Town adopts state’s Climate Smart Communities Pledge In a 4-0 vote, with Councilwoman Jodi Giglio absent, the Riverhead Town Board adopted New York State’s Climate Smart Communities Pledge Tuesday.
05.31.2019 Podcasts Facing the effects of climate change on the North Fork Brought to you by: On more than one occasion, Shelter Island’s North Ferry Company has had to briefly shut down operations to deal with docking difficulties caused by rising...
