environment Archives - Riverhead News Review

06.03.2025 News

SCWA answers: ‘What’s in our water?’

In light of the national discussion of what should and shouldn’t be in the public water supply, local water quality is an ongoing concern for residents of the North...

05.07.2023 Editorials

Editorial: Two local groups are saving land and history

Across the East End, the Peconic Land Trust has preserved more than 14,000 acres of fertile farmland and open space. Our farmland is the rich loam the glaciers left...

04.26.2023 Environment

Ecological Culture Initiative hosts backyard composting course, encourages communities to reduce food waste

Anthony Romano hopes East Enders band together to stop letting food waste go to waste. A handful of environmentally conscious North and South Fork residents attended the Ecological Culture...

04.07.2023 Editorials

Editorial: State DEC report on minority communities is important

It might not come as a surprise to many who closely follow environmental issues impacting the region, but state officials have formally designated 87 mostly minority neighborhoods in 40...