The Marine Renewable Energy Collaborative will continue to test renewable tidal turbines at the Bourne Tidal Test Site at the Cape Cod Canal. A new federal license will allow testing for eight years.
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The group of migrants that was housed at a Yarmouth motel for seven months has been relocated to shelters off-Cape, where there is staff to help them.
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Today marks the second annual Right Whale Day in Massachusetts. The public is invited to spend it at the New England Aquarium, where beginning at 11 a.m. officials will discuss conservation efforts with Calvin, a 42-foot-long inflatable right whale, in the background.
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Shark researchers expect to learn a lot from data collected by a new tag attached to a shark off South Carolina.
The Point
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This week: We've got the latest on plans to replace the Bourne and Sagamore Bridges, after the state holds its first public meeting in a year. And, a controversial heavy machine gun range proposed for Joint Base Cape Cod has been scaled back, but questions about its impacts remain. And right whales get their day of recognition.
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A conversation with Nick Shaw about the loss of his young son.
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NPR Stories
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Lebanon offers a glimpse into history, with a treasure trove of specimens that have been sealed away for millennia in ancient amber.
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Scotland's first minister Humza Yousef has stepped down after a series of political missteps, dealing the latest blow to his party's independence ambitions.
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The federal government says it will restore grizzly bears to the North Cascades region in Washington state, where they have not been seen since 1996.
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Florida had been a destination for people in the Deep South to get abortions, but on May first a six-week abortion ban goes into effect there, making the region the most restrictive for the procedure.
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This Weekend, tornadoes ripped through Oklahoma, Iowa and Nebraska. At least four people have died in Oklahoma and the destruction was enormous.