A highly anticipated state hearing last night in Plymouth drew some 100 people to give testimony — or witness the testimony of others — on the proposed release of water from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station.
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Tarpon are one of Florida’s prized game fish. So what’s a 5-foot specimen doing on a hook in Mashpee? Turns out, there's a precedent.
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Of the awards given to broadcast journalists, the Murrow Awards are among the most respected in the world.
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In this installment of Looking Skyward, CAI's John Basile talks with Dr. Regina Jorgenson of the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket about India's successful landing of a spacecraft near the moon's south pole.
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Digree Rai and her son David are farmers in Truro. They emigrated here from Nepal in 2011 and they say there’s one crop that’s common there that almost no one recognizes on the Cape.
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Submerged heaters have been installed inside the reactor at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station and likely increased the release of radioactive tritium into the air, according to a federal inspection report.
The Point
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This week: What should happen to a million gallons of radioactive water at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station? The state held a hearing this week that could be a decider. Also: the first dolphin rescue hospital north of Florida is opening… on Cape Cod. And: Outer Cape schools have a problem—not with students, but with housing.
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Safe recycling of nutrients from human “waste", to stop pollution
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Can we develop housing that uses less energy, is more resilient to climate change but is still affordable?
NPR Stories
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A mug shot for a former president and others in his circle: NPR's Scott Simon recalls his days as a crime reporter, and reflects on the significance of mug shots.
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Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is set to travel to China at a time when U.S. executives and investors are facing increasing uncertainty and risk doing business there.
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Louder than a Riot podcast hosts Sidney Madden and Rodney Carmichael say hip-hop is poised for change. Author Justin Tinsley discusses the life and legacy of the Notorious B.I.G.
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CNN's parent company is launching a new streaming service in September, more than a year after the nascent CNN+ went bust.
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The average mortgage rate in the U.S. is now over 7%, its highest level in more than 20 years. That has some homeowners feeling locked in, tethered to their low interest rates and unable to move.