Talking Higher Ground

Connecticut and New York have gotten most of their water pollution issues under control due to wastewater management of the Long Island Sound.

Ten years ago this Saturday, Fire Island was evacuated because of the destruction brought by Superstorm Sandy. WSHU's Higher Ground host J.D. Allen took a tour of the reconstruction still underway a decade later.

Freeport, Long Island was hit hard by Superstorm Sandy in 2012. Ten years later, the village is more prepared for future storms — but still wary.

Since Superstorm Sandy in 2012, the Long Island Power Authority has upgraded the electric grid to prevent widespread outages in future storms. WSHU's climate podcast Higher Ground explored how that happened in its first season.

WSHU Public Radio is thrilled to announce that Season 1 of the Higher Ground podcast has been recognized by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The podcast has been awarded an inaugural Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communication.

WSHU Public Radio has launched the second season of its acclaimed environmental podcast Higher Ground, with one key difference. This time, the microphone is in the hands of eight-grade Bridgeport students.

At John S. Martinez Elementary School in New Haven, newly installed garden beds from Common Ground’s Schoolyards Program offer a different approach to learning, and playing in the dirt is bringing kids down to earth.

Climate change is causing anxiety in young people around the world. In New England, youth activists respond with collective action around food sustainability.

As states weigh trash-to-energy facilities, neighborhoods in Long Island and Brooklyn, New York, have learned from each other to fight for environmental justice with solutions to a growing organic waste management problem. The strategy in New Haven, Connecticut, is reducing trash that ends up in landfills and incinerators.

A nearly $224 million sewer project will reduce nitrogen pollution and expand economic development by eliminating about 1,890 cesspools and septic systems in the Mastic-Shirley area of Long Island. Still, environmentalists want more.