Thousands of Navajos took jobs in the mines, starting in the 1940s. They were never told the rocks they were handling were deadly.

There was once a house at 512 Riviera Dr. in Mastic Beach, a one-story cottage with an expansive view across Narrow Bay toward Fire Island. The house was badly damaged in Superstorm Sandy in 2012 and flooded again over the next decade when big storms came through. The house was sold to the Town of Brookhaven last December and razed in March, its driveway torn out and its septic tank dug up and carted off — one of about 60 buildings removed as part of the town’s efforts to clear the flood plain a

Crowding, following, and getting too close to whales is dangerous for the whales--and it's illegal under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

Chicken farms housing millions of animals threaten a fragile ecology