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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Students at all seven public schools in Falmouth will be composting by the end of this school year.
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The weather cooperated! Across Cape Cod and the islands people turned their faces to the sky to watch the show. At Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Falmouth about 300 people pulled up for a state-sponsored viewing event — and more were turned away after the parking lot ran out of room.
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Whether you noticed shaking beneath your feet has to do with a variety of factors, including what type of structure you were in, what kind of ground the structure is on, and how strong the foundation is. Those in a bed on the tallest story of a building were more likely to feel the quake than those in a car, for example.
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The first North Atlantic right whale calf of the season safely reached Cape Cod Bay with its mother this week. The news came the same day another new mother of the species was reported dead off Virginia, killed by “catastrophic injuries” from a boat collision, also known as a vessel strike. Her calf, born in December, has disappeared and is unlikely to survive.
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The U.S Supreme Court announced that it would not hear an appeal by a group of Taunton residents who sought to reverse a lower court’s ruling to keep Mashpee Wampanoag tribal lands in trust. It was the final ruling of a case originally brought in 2015.
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This story was reported in collaboration with Science Friday and WCAI. Read the original reporting on Science Friday's website.
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Before the center opened this fall, IFAW had only about an hour to treat stranded animals out of a transport van. Veterinarian Sarah Sharp said she probably would have put this animal down if that was all the time they had.
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Offshore wind developments and critically endangered right whales are sharing the same waters off our coast, which has raised the question: how safely can they coexist? CAI’s Eve Zuckoff has spent the last few months talking to scientists and cutting through misinformation.
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Activists and environmentalists say they’re eager for an update 11 months after the Environmental Protection Agency released a draft report that found a proposed machine gun range on Joint Base Cape Cod could create a “significant public health hazard” by contaminating drinking water.
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This week: President Biden signs bill that puts $350 million toward new Cape Cod bridges. A beachfront home on Nantucket has sold for just $600,000, a bargain considering last year’s median sale price on the island was just under $3 million. The only catch: it’s not clear how long it’ll last on a fast-eroding shoreline. And finally, a man walks away from a local diner — with a million dollar scratch ticket.