As the waters off of Long Island Sound warm, the lobsters are going elsewhere, and the men who made their living fishing them out of the sea are forced to change their way of life. The lobstermen of ...

The Long Island Sound, which stretches into the open mouth of the Atlantic Ocean, provides Connecticut’s most important ecological habitat with over 600 miles of diverse coastline that are home to ...

It has been an ancient river, a fertile valley, a vast ice field, and a milky, iceberg-laden lake almost 200 miles long. What it hasn’t been, until recently, is the saltwater estuary that makes Long ...

Long Islanders won’t like the sound of this. Hundreds of people have signed a petition to rename the Long Island Sound the “Gulf of Connecticut” in favor of New York’s northern neighbor. A provocative ...

Environmental advocates are hailing new findings that show that hypoxia in the Long Island Sound is at its lowest level in nearly four decades, according to the Long Island Sound Partnership. Hypoxia ...

Efforts to cut the amount of nitrogen pollution released into Long Island Sound by wastewater, fertilizer, and out-of-date sewage plants and septic systems are continuing to help improve water quality ...

Regional officials are looking forward to a Long Island Sound that is cleaner, more resilient and more accessible. Officials from Connecticut, New York and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ...

The Sound has its secrets. More than 140 shipwrecks lie on the bottom of Long Island Sound, the remains of vessels from the 17th to the 20th centuries doomed by ...