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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 ...

Low-oxygen areas in Long Island Sound dropped last summer to the smallest footprint recorded in nearly 40 years, according to data from Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

Long Island Sound has reached a historic milestone in water quality, with low-oxygen conditions at its lowest levels since 1987. Hypoxia refers to low oxygen levels in waters near the sea floor, ...

There's always that one friend who pulls out random big words in the middle of a casual sentence. To them, it feels natural, even if it leaves others standing around with a puzzled look. It's almost ...

Linguists have noticed that many swear words share the same sharp, punchy sounds—hard consonants like “k,” “t,” and “g” that burst out of the mouth rather than flow. When a study examined those sound ...

92NY will present Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music Sing-A-Long—a magical celebration of the 60th anniversary of the beloved 1965 movie musical—hosted by Christine Ebersole. The hills come ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. We’ve all heard apologies that ring hollow and others that sound genuine, but what makes the difference? New research ...

President Donald Trump announced a deal Thursday to bring discounted fertility drugs to Americans—but don’t ask him what they’re called, because he doesn’t seem to know. Speaking from the Oval Office, ...

Ever wonder what your dog is trying to say? Well, a University of Texas at Arlington researcher is aiming to turn barks, howls and whimpers of man's best friend into intelligible speech—a kind of ...

“Coyotes,” the horror comedy and survival thriller starring real-life partners Justin Long (“Barbarian”) and Kate Bosworth (“Straw Dogs”), has been bought for the U.K. and Ireland by Signature ...

Thousands of abandoned lobster traps have silently littered Long Island Sound for decades. Now, a local effort to locate them all has received a significant boost. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...