MANHASSET, N.Y. - Long Island is on the front line in the battle against climate change, and some residents there are doing what they can to fight it, particularly erosion.Environmentalist George Thatos, 24, thinks he has some simple, low-tech ways to fight it by taking inspiration from nature itself. 'Try to help with the ecosystems that I've been in love with for my whole life,' George Thatos said. 'From the tops of the cliffs, down the bluffs to beach, and into the ocean.
That includes rescued tropical fish and seahorses that have been stranded after swimming up from the gulf. They study climate change on clams, oysters, snails, conch and sea urchins, and build oyster reefs to lower nitrogen levels. Environmentalist calls for 'strategic retreat' inlandAdrienne Esposito of the Citizens Campaign for the Environment, says there are ways to overcome the doom and gloom.'We must make a strategic retreat,' Esposito said.