Controlled or prescribed fires have been used on Long Island since the 1995 Sunrise Fire near Westhampton to improve habitats ...

Mark Sears played like an All-American as Alabama broke an NCAA record for 3-pointers in a stunning offensive display.

But in spite of the alarming billows of smoke, the fires were not catastrophic. Quite the opposite, ecologists argue: Long Island’s pine barrens have burned too little in recent years. If wildfires ...

Jokes about the Pine Barrens abound. But visitors willing to look closer will find a place steeped in nature, history and ...

Gathered round Martha’s Pond in New Jersey’s iconic Pine Barrens, students in Claude Epstein’s environmental science class ...

At the heart of The Sopranos is the concept of family and relationships, and the series puts its dynamic and deep characters ...

The Town of Brookhaven had a big problem. Hundreds of spring peeper frogs were trying to cross a two-lane road to breed in a ...

The governor announced shortly before 5:30 p.m. that she was “issuing a State of Emergency as Suffolk County fights brush fires in the Pine Barrens.” Southampton also declared a local state of ...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has made state resources available as multiple fire departments respond to a major wildfire in ...

Joe Holt is an aviation pioneer, having battled racial discrimination to eventually teach thousands of future pilots to enjoy ...