Freezing temperatures caused much of Narragansett Bay to freeze over, leaving fisherman docked at Apponaug Cove to dig their boats out of the ice.

Using sediment cores, University of Rhode Island researchers studied the “exponential” growth of microplastics in the water ...

WARWICK – David Ghigliotty looks every part the bullraker, with a weatherbeaten face, thick shoulders and calloused hands as hard as a clam shell. He started raking for quahogs as a teenager during ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’ll be a busy weekend on Narragansett Bay as the Portsmouth Police Department and several other agencies prepare for the annual ...

Narragansett Bay and other bodies of water seem like a natural solution to excess snow. Here's why it's not on the table.

In January 1994, ice covered most of Narragansett Bay above the Newport and Jamestown bridges. It may have been the last deep freeze of its kind.

Narragansett Bay is one of the most studied estuaries in the world, and its long-running URI plankton survey offers important historical context for the past half-century in the bay. Recent analysis ...

(WJAR) — A major undertaking to tackle part of state's sewer drainage system has now reached a decades long milestone. Crews with the Narragansett Bay Commission have just completed excavation of an ...

Our special program "Narragansett Bay: A Friend's Perspective" was produced in 1987, when it still wasn't unusual for sewage treatment plants to dump polluted water into the upper bay, periodically ...

URI researchers say that in the last 50 years, levels of phytoplankton – tiny plants that are the foundation of the marine food chain – are down by 50% in Narragansett Bay. Through photosynthesis, ...

JAMESTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) — On an unseasonably warm October day, the John H. Chafee pulled away from the docks of Fort Wetherill to conduct a survey of the marine life that call Narragansett Bay home.