For decades, the Great South Bay has been under assault of nitrogen overload which triggers algal blooms, such as Brown Tide, decimating marine life and affecting water quality. The largest contributor of nitrogen pollution to the Bay are outdated cesspools. Across...
An intense and damaging brown tide has erupted across Great South Bay on the south shore of Long Island. Monitoring by The Gobler Laboratory at Stony Brook University has revealed that a brown tide has rapidly intensified to more than 300,000 cells per milliliter in...
[Guest posted by Jack Bonner, from East Islip and now a student at Loyola, Maryland] It is 5:30 a.m. and I’m leaving my home port headed out towards the Robert Moses Causeway. There is dew on my windshield, and I can taste the salt air as the sun rises over my back....
Here is Part I of a projected three month series on the question, Can Long Island Be Saved? This series, written for The Huffington Post, will focus primarily on water quality issues. What is happening to our drinking water? What is happening to our bays, rivers and...
