Eve Zuckoff
Eve Zuckoff covers the environment and human impacts of climate change for CAI. After contributing to a 10-part-investigative podcast produced by WBUR and the Boston Globe and working as a producer on Radio Boston, the Boston University alum joined CAI as a Report for America Corps member in 2019. Today, as a three-time PMJA-winner and staff reporter, her stories on rising temperatures, North Atlantic right whales, transportation, wastewater, and coastal threats and innovations can frequently be heard on GBH and NPR.
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How much anesthesia does it take to put a fish under before surgery?It’s not a question most veterinarians have to answer, but it’s what Lisa Abbo is trying to figure out at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole as she looks down at a striped bass on a steel operating table. -
That number represents an 8 percent decrease from the 2019 estimate, and the lowest population estimate for the species in nearly 20 years, according to the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium, which announced the news today ahead of its annual meeting.
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The study is expected to help establish whether PFAS are reaching private wells by traveling through septic systems and where concentrations of PFAS are the highest in drinking water on the Cape.
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For the first time in nearly 20 years, officials with the Massachusetts Army National Guard are offering public tours of Camp Edwards to provide a closer look at the environment on Joint Base Cape Cod.
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The federal government is funding the construction of a nearly $8 million machine gun range on a military base northwest of Boston, adding fuel to local leaders’ insistence that another range is not needed on Joint Base Cape Cod.“We’ve got one range ready to break ground, which nullifies the need for a second one,” said Barnstable County Commissioner Mark Forest.
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As plans to build a machine gun range on Joint Base Cape Cod move forward amid ongoing opposition, the federal government has just awarded a construction contract to build a similar range at a military training site in Worcester County.
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The town of Barnstable is hitting back against an environmental group’s lawsuit that claims the Hyannis Wastewater Treatment Plant violates the federal Clean Water Act.
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According to new data released by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, 54 percent of Cape and Islanders insured through the National Flood Insurance Program will see increases of up to $10 per month. Another 6 percent will see increases of up to $20 per month, and roughly 4 percent will see increases of more than $20 a month. About 35 percent of locals will see their bills decrease.
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The town of Nantucket is calling for 40 coastal resilience projects to reduce risks from flooding, erosion, and storm surge that pose a threat by the end of the decade to more than 1,000 homes, businesses, and buildings on the island.
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This summer, a young humpback whale was faced with life or death. Lobster gear wrapped around the calf’s flipper, with more threatening to bind its tail. But as one whale watching group saw the calf struggle, the drama played out in a different way than most expected. It’s raising questions about whether a new policy to protect whales from entanglement is more effective than previously thought.
