Eve Zuckoff
Climate/environment ReporterEve 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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Cape Cod's drinking water mostly 'excellent,' ponds and embayments mostly 'unacceptable': new reportThe Association to Preserve Cape Cod released its fifth annual State of the Waters report. Along with assessment data, it urges towns to take advantage of funding for infrastructure to address the primary cause of poor water quality: nitrogen pollution from stormwater runoff, fertilizers, and septic systems.
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Results are back for drinking water in the Barnstable County Correctional Facility, a jail located within the bounds of Joint Base Cape Cod. CAI’s environment team tested to see if PFAS – or “forever chemicals” – are coming through the pipes to incarcerated people.
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So far, experts believe just nine North Atlantic right whales have been born this calving season. Now one, which was was captured in photos and videos off the coast of South Carolina, appears to have propeller wounds on its head, mouth, and left lip.
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The state is looking to limit new homes from being built along the most vulnerable areas of the coast as part of an effort to better prepare for climate change.
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Next week marks 50 years of the Endangered Species Act. The bedrock environmental law is credited with saving 291 species from extinction, or 99% of species listed as endangered or threatened. It has also drawn criticism for being too overreaching.
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Opponents of a proposed machine gun range on Joint Base Cape Cod are celebrating today, after seeing the annual defense authorization bill because it contains no additional funds for the controversial project.
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The report explores how climate change has, for dozens of species, disrupted ecosystems, changed where whales go, led to a decline in reproduction, and even an increase in inter-species aggression.
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A new generation of architecture students is facing a reality that climate change will radically alter how buildings are conceived, and they’re the ones who will have to find solutions. But first, they have to learn how. And this unique building in New Bedford offers a perfect test case.
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Massachusetts Lobstermen are looking for a new way to fish during an annual 3-month-long closure established to protect migrating whales. CAI’s Eve Zuckoff reports they’ve just been awarded a 1.2 million grant to develop technology on their own.
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The Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority has laid out a replacement schedule for 127 buses, vans, and trolleys. The ambitious project could make the Cape a leader in electrified public transit across a national stage, but transit officials initially hoped to transition away from oil and gas even sooner.