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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...

11.28.2021 Editorials

Editorial: New town Trustees will have a lot on their plates

This month’s global climate change summit in Glasgow, billed as the planet’s “last, best hope,” has come and gone. It’s safe to say most Americans probably didn’t pay much...

10.09.2021 COVID-19

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...

11.09.2020 Environment

A roadmap to protect 250 square miles of the Peconic watershed

To help protect the 250 square miles that comprise the Peconic watershed, the Peconic Estuary Partnership recently unveiled its 2020 Comprehensive Conservation and Management plan, which will serve as...

02.04.2020 Government

Krupski proposes forming county task force to study local effects of climate change, develop policies

A proposed task force in Suffolk County will take aim at a global problem: combatting the effects of climate change. Suffolk County Legislator Al Krupski (D-Cutchogue) proposed a law...

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,...

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