Author: Erin Elizabeth

Just this week in Hampton Bays, New York, thousands and thousands of dead bunker fish filled up the Shinnecock Canal. They had been starved of oxygen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu5LnlLNZcE   The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation believes the fish were fleeing a predatory school of bluefish when they wandered into the canal. However, the canal was a dead end because it was closed for the night. As the numbers of fish grew there was rapid depletion of oxygen in the water and thousands of fish were asphyxiated. The next morning when the locks opened, many of the dead fish floated...

It’s been WONDERFUL to see so many celebrities and political voices throw their weight behind the protest at Standing Rock and on Tuesday, another one joined the front lines: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, activist, and president of the Waterkeeper Alliance. As you will remember, the Dakota Access Pipeline is being illegally constructed through tribal lands and threatens vital water sources downstream which could potentially affect thousands should the pipeline break. So, on the National Day of Solidarity, RFK Jr. spent time with tribal leaders and represented the Waterkeeper Alliance as he sought to bring attention to the way federal and local...