The Latest Breaking News from Sound

Island businesses 'suffering badly' as Harris ferry remains out of service

BUSINESSES on both sides of the Sound of Harris are “suffering quite badly”, councillors have warned, with the route’s regular ferry expected…

The National (Scotland) · Sep 30

Long Island Sound's water quality improves; Western Narrows passes since 2008

Save the Sound released its 2026 Long Island Sound Report Card, showing that water quality improved or remained stable across all five open-water regions of the Sound. The biennial report, based on 2025 monitoring data and detailed on Save the Sound's own Report Card project page, grades the open Sound…

The Times of India · Sep 25

Report shows steady improvement in Long Island Sound water quality

A report from Save the Sound highlights improvements in Long Island Sound’s water quality due to infrastructure upgrades in Connecticut and New York

The Independent UK · Sep 24

How stray logs in Puget Sound turn industrial shorelines green

POSSESSION SOUND, Wash. — Squinting out the windowed wheelhouse of the ship he's helmed for two decades, Captain Skip Green spots something several hundred yards in the distance.

Tribune News Service · Jan 19, 2023

Washington state tribes will receive $50m for Puget Sound restoration

The funding will come from the federal infrastructure bill passed last year

The Independent UK · Jul 21, 2022

A year on the River Thames, part one – in pictures

The first in a series of photo essays looking at a year in the life of the great River Thames. Jill Mead, a longtime London resident and urban photographer, takes a look at the many sides and seasons of the waterway

The Guardian - UK · May 23, 2022

Abandoned lobster traps in Long Island Sound to be removed

Federal funding has been approved to begin removing some of the hundreds of thousands of derelict lobster traps left behind on the floor of the Long Island Sound, a “ghost fishery” that continues to trap and kill marine life to this day

The Independent UK · Mar 22, 2022

Hilton hotel and three blocks of flats planned for derelict Plymouth Hoe site

Deal struck to place Hilton Garden Inn hotel and three separate apartment blocks on site of demolished Quality Hotel overlooking Plymouth Sound

Birmingham Post · Mar 11, 2022