Australia scorched by the most devastating wildfires ever, killing dozens of
humans and a billion animals; glaciers melting 100 times faster than previously
thought; Venice inundated by unimaginably h...
Swept toward a gnarly, swirling cauldron at Wicopesset Passage during maximum
flood last Sunday, I felt as if the entire Atlantic Ocean were squeezing through
the tight channel into Fishers Island Sou...
In our house, the most egregious transgression — even worse than neglecting to
roll the trash can out on garbage collection day, or polishing off the peanut
butter and putting an empty jar back in the...
With the winter solstice only days away, we are rapidly descending into darkness
— but our growing gloom isn’t just due to the planet’s axial tilt away from the
sun. As the Global Carbon Project repor...
“There’s one!” my friend Spyros “Spy” Barres called, peering from the cockpit of
a tandem kayak toward a tiny rock islet called East Clump just north of Fishers
Island. “I see two!” I replied, paddlin...
A week before graduating from high school several eons ago, a handful of
classmates and I indulged in a time-honored tradition of playing hooky, hopping
on our bikes and riding to a park for a picnic....
Trees, trees and more trees. From an overlook in Lyme’s 235-acre Pleasant Valley
Preserve, that’s all you can see — a lush, green canopy that extends more than a
mile southwest to a forested summit a...
After being battered by 70 mph winds, blinded by whipping snow and nearly frozen
in temperatures that plunged to 20 below zero and beyond, Kate Matrosova must
have realized early on she had no hope of...
The thunder of tumbling water roared as I gripped my paddle the other day,
waiting my turn to plunge over a 4-foot drop at a broken dam on the Salmon River
in East Hampton. I could see kayaking pal Ia...