You can’t actually drink the brackish water in the Peconic Estuary — the place where the fresh water of the Peconic River meets the salty water coming from the Atlantic Ocean — but to celebrate the ...

The East Hampton Town Board, after weeks of bitter debate, has passed a resolution to join two other towns on the Peconic Estuary in crafting a management plan to improve the environmental health of ...

Baymen who ply the waters off the East End suffered a major blow to their harvests when most adult Peconic Bay scallops died off last year and this harvest season, which started Monday, looks equally ...

A new study by Stony Brook University researchers published in Global Change Biology demonstrates that warming waters and heat waves have contributed to the loss of an economically and culturally ...

One million people in Suffolk County, on Long Island, New York, use sewage ponds or tanks buried underground in the backyard to dispose of their toilet waste. It is a colossal number of people for ...

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- Parts of Long Island have been mired in a smelly situation, following a massive fish die-off. As CBS2's Jennifer McLogan reported, tens of thousands of dead bait fish ...

Toxic rust tide has spread across the entire Peconic Estuary, creating a lethal threat to marine life, according to Stony Brook University researchers. The university's School of Marine and ...

RIVERHEAD (WABC) -- Long Island officials are testing water samples taken from the Peconic Estuary after tens of thousands of dead and dying bunker fish washed ashore over the weekend. Reports came in ...