ENVIRONMENT & NATURE
Sweetbriar presents weekly virtual wildlife presentations
Learn about wildlife and interact live with an educator each week on the Sweetbriar Nature Center Facebook page every Thursday at 2:30 p.m. The...
WMHO to host free virtual birding event
Senior scientist at the National Audubon Society, Dr. Brooke Bateman, will offer “Virtual Birding” on Wednesday, May 27 from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. via...
Photo of the Week
ONE LAST SWIM
Bev Tyler came upon this tranquil scene during a walk along Shore Road in his beautiful hometown of East Setauket last Sunday...
Mount Sinai Jetty Project Comes to Completion
After nearly eight months of work and years and years of consternation, reconstruction of the Mount Sinai Jetty has finally come to completion, with...
Book Review: ‘Becoming Wild’
Reviewed by Jeffrey Sanzel
“A sperm whale learns who she will be journeying with, a macaw casts a covetous eye on a beautiful neighbor, a...
Nonprofit Heritage Trust Hard-Hit During Pandemic
During the spring and summer seasons, the community center at Heritage Park in Mount Sinai would see an abundance of residents stopping in to...
Kindness garden pops up in Port Jefferson
By David Luces
For Susan Orifici, head of graphic, archival and special projects at the Village Center in Port Jefferson, a walk along the water...
Photo of the Week
PANDEMIC SKY
Dawn Olenick snapped this beautiful sunset pic at the beach in her hometown of Baiting Hollow at the end of April.
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Nature Matters: Climate change has many faces
By John L. Turner
For many years there has been a broad public perception that the primary effect of dumping excessive amounts of carbon dioxide...
Movie Review: New Nat Geo documentary on Jane Goodall gives the world hope
By Jeffrey Sanzel
It could not be more appropriate that the new documentary Jane Goodall: The Hope premiered globally on Earth Day, April 22, in...
