Long Island Sound

Save the Sound has released its report card grading the health of spots around Long Island Sound.

A recovery coalition has hauled up more than 4,000 abandoned lobster traps since its launch four years ago.

The Environmental Protection Agency has named Nicole Tachiki as the new director of the Long Island Sound Partnership, a program that oversees efforts to improve water quality in the Sound.

Long Island Sound is home to a living fossil: the horseshoe crab. They have been around for nearly half a billion years, but today this hardy and helmeted species faces new challenges.

A bill before the Connecticut Commerce Committee would direct the state to study creating a Bridge Authority to oversee plans for a potential bridge between Connecticut and Long Island.

A winter wildlife cruise with Norwalk’s Maritime Aquarium gives folks a closer look at seals, the only marine mammal to make an annual visit to the Sound.

Long Island Sound has reached a historic milestone in water quality, with low-oxygen conditions at its lowest levels since 1987.

About $12 million in new grants will power dozens of projects in the Long Island Sound watershed. That includes our region, as well as other parts of the Northeast.

Underwater meadows of eelgrass in Long Island Sound have been in decline for decades. Now, conservationists are turning to clams — and glue — to restore this critical ecosystem.

The Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County has been awarded a $1.8 million grant to clean up marine debris in Long Island Sound. Part of that includes efforts by the Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk to locate and recycle lobster traps.