ENVIRONMENT & NATURE
Photo of the Week
CLOUDY DAY REFLECTIONS
Elisa Hendrey of Sound Beach snapped this surreal photo at Mt. Sinai Harbor on March 19 using her iPhone 6.
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A call for help: Wildlife rehab organizations seek donations amid pandemic closures
By Melissa Arnold
As most businesses come to a standstill to aid in social distancing, many people are looking for ways to help their neighbors...
Book Review: ‘Hope and Freckles’
Retired police officer encourages empathy for refugees in powerful first book
Reviewed by Melissa Arnold
Every year, tens of thousands of people from around the world flee...
Spotlight on Spring! — A photo essay by Mimi Hodges
'Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it.'
― Amit Ray
WELCOME SPRING!
Photographer Mimi Hodges of Sound Beach ventured...
The Connection Between Climate Change and Pandemics
By Sapphire Perera
I haven’t been to school in 13 days and I don’t know when I’m going back. Many of the shelves in the...
Photo of the Week
PINK TWILIGHT
Dawn Olenick of Baiting Hollow was driving along Sound Avenue in Riverhead on the night of Feb. 6 when she captured this stunning...
Update on Ongoing North Shore Rail Trail Construction
The North Shore Rail Trail, formerly known as the Rails to Trails Recreational Path, is an approximately 10-mile recreational path and is currently under...
Boy Scout from Miller Place Troop Creates Bench for Greenway Trail
With the weather warming, and with more people available to take walks while home from work and school (maintaining social distancing, of course), one...
Photo of the Week
LUNCH TIME
Gerard Romano of Port Jefferson Station spotted this early migrant egret feeding in the shallows of Setauket Harbor on March 11
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BNL scientists avoid polar bears, study tiny aerosols near North Pole
By Daniel Dunaief
Two researchers from Brookhaven National Laboratory were stuck on a ship trapped in ice near the North Pole — and they couldn’t...
