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On Sunday, 23-year-old Kenny Heisler and friend Michael Brown, 23, both of Holyoke, Mass., drove 90 minutes to get to Rocky Neck State Park in East Lyme, paid the $22 out-of-state fee and joined many ...

The Nature Conservancy in Connecticut, Citizens Campaign for the Environment, and Save the Sound in Larchmont have received funding to continue their partnership in facilitating the bi-state Long Island Sound Coastal Watershed Network. The award of more than $262,000 was recently announced by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, through the Long Island Sound Futures […]

Save the Sound’s 10th season of conducting fecal bacteria monitoring in the western Long Island Sound was the biggest yet, with 777 water samples collected. The results from the 2023 monitoring season show that 64% of the samples collected across 65 sites from Greenwich, Connecticut, through Westchester County and into Queens and Nassau County, failed […]

Groton ― A rain barrel project that involves local students. The recovery of abandoned lobster pots in Long Island Sound. Water quality monitoring of the Poquonnock River and Mumford Cove. Those are s...

Westchester County beaches received mostly good grades in the latest biennial report from Save the Sound.

Westchester County beaches received mostly good grades in the latest biennial report from Save the Sound.

Save the Sound released its 2023 Long Island Sound Beach Report, grading how healthy the water is for swimming at more than 200 beaches around the sound. “We...

Last season, New York City's 25 beaches saw a total of 244 closures for water quality issues, up from 94 the previous summer.

CT DEEP investigating reports of dead menhaden fish in Long Island Sound Susan Shultz FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 A Darien resident recently shared this photo of dead fish, which specialists identify as bunker, near the Rings End Bridge.ContributedShow MoreShow Less 2of3 3of3 DARIEN — In a year of strange and unprecedented events, one has found its way to Darien shores. Residents report an increase in dead fish on area waterways, one particularly at Ring’s End Bridge near Gorham’s Pond. All...

Dead fish wash ashore in Darien, surrounding area Susan Shultz FacebookTwitterEmail 2of6 A Darien resident recently shared this photo of dead fish, which specialists identify as bunker, near the Rings End Bridge.ContributedShow MoreShow Less 3of6 5of6 6of6 DARIEN — In a year of strange and unprecedented events, yet another has washed ashore in Darien. Residents have noted an increase in dead fish on the waterways of the town and its surrounding areas, one particularly at Ring’s End Bridge n...