Amy Kolb Noyes
Science/Environmental ReporterAmy is an award-winning journalist who has worked in print and radio since 1991. In 2019 Amy was awarded a reporting fellowship from the Education Writers Association to report on the challenges facing small, independent colleges. Amy has a B.S. in Broadcast Journalism from Syracuse University and an MFA from Vermont State University.
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Provincetown-based responders helped save a small humpback whale entangled in fishing gear off the North Shore on Wednesday.
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To encouraging chants by young campers and dignitaries alike, a sea turtle named Pancake made its way down a beach beside New York's Coney Island boardwalk on Thursday, July 23 and into the Atlantic Ocean.
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Between nutrient pollution, climate-fueled severe storms, and warming ocean waters, our estuaries are at risk. But restoring wild oyster habitat could help.
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Experts point to the COVID-19 pandemic as the point when our region's housing problem became a crisis. And they say we can’t build our way out of it.
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The International Fund for Animal Welfare is calling a stranding event on Cape Cod the largest known mass stranding of bottlenose dolphins documented in the Northeast.
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A regional seafood industry collaborative has been awarded a $15 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
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Local fishing nets, once bound for recycling, are now saving lives in Ukraine. The spent nets are being repurposed to protect soldiers from Russian drone attacks.
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Alvin, the deep ocean submersible known for exploring the wreck of the Titanic, is surveying two other famous shipwrecks – Shackleton's Quest and Scott's Terra Nova.
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Released turtles have satellite tags affixed to their shell. Some also have smaller acoustic tags. A Senior Animal Care Specialist explains why.
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About 100 people gathered on West Dennis Beach for the New England Aquarium’s first 2026 release of cold-stunned sea turtles rescued in the fall.