Cartoon: Green lawns equal brown tides

Credit: Newsday / Matt Davies
I read news stories a little differently from most.
Iam always looking for something visual, a twist, a villain, an irony. A small detail from the Peconic fish die-off a caused in part by nitrogen from fertilizers entering the water a struck me: Verdant green lawns equal brown tides.
And a cartoon is born.
Matt Davies is Newsdays Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.
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