Environment & Nature
Newport Life Magazine
AgInnovation Farm
A school bus filled with eager students pulls down a gravel road off Jepson Lane in Portsmouth. The passengers are middle schoolers, and their destination is AgInnovation Farm, where they have arrived for an afterschool program. As the youths file off the bus, they are greeted with a smile and a wave from Ryan Brancato, the farm manager, who guides them into a large shed that doubles as the classroom. There they are assigned tasks for the day before venturing off in pairs and trios.
The Day Magazine
Leah Lopez Schmalz
New President of Save the Sound
Growing up in southern Louisiana, Leah Lopez Schmalz could be found crabbing and fishing with her grandfather in bayous, lakes and wetlands. With a passion for exploring her surroundings, she studied the fisherman, oil workers and various others who had deep connections to the land and water.
The Day Magazine
Uncovering Prehistoric CT
During the early Jurassic period, Connecticut was located 15 degrees north of the equator in the supercontinent Pangea. When the separation of the continents began, it allowed for the continental crust to break and sink, creating a depression called a rift valley. This erosion created an ideal condition consisting of much and soft sand buried with more sediments on top which preserved the tracks of the dinosaurs into stone.
The Day Magazine
Do we take the Long Island Sound for granted?
A small worm hits the rippling water as a father and son cast their fishing line hoping to catch flounder for dinner. White foam rises and slowly falls along the rocky shore as little kids splash into the shallow water. Piping plovers peek out from the protective dune grass that lines the sand. All seems well on the coast of Connecticut. Yet, little do the fisherman and beachgoers know that numerous feet beneath their shiny boats and steps off the sand is an abundance of diverse marine life whose existence is linked to how humans treat the natural world.