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The 39-year-old mom has at least four grand-offspring — making her a pillar of the surviving right whale population, which has shrunk down to just 336.
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Local health officials are watching the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, which was detected in the United States for the first time on Wednesday as cases spread around the world. -
When Judeen Lloyd migrated to the U.S. from Jamaica ten years ago, she brought her mother's recipe for rum cake with her. Some day, it'll be passed on to…
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Since August, the E.P.A. has been investigating whether activity on the proposed range could create a significant public health hazard by contaminating the drinking water that runs beneath the base.
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The goal overall is to identify and rank the two most high priority low-lying roads in 10 Cape Cod towns. By the summer, the Woods Hole Group and the Cape Cod Commission plan to share three potential ways to adapt and protect each of those those areas.
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The Point
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NOAA Fisheries/Alison Ogilvie/How we all share in the responsibility to save the imperiled North Atlantic right whale species. -
This week: The federal government will be looking for public input on the proposed machine gun range. One million gallons of radioactive water could be released from Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant into Cape Cod Bay. And we celebrate a whale mother.
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J. Junker/The ocean's role in our climate system, and in solutions to climate change.
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