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As a college student, Amy Bower dreamed of becoming an oceanographer, combining her love of physics and the natural world. A devastating diagnosis almost…

Headlines trumpeted the dire news: a new U.N. report says human beings have put one million species at risk of extinction within decades. They point the…

From cod to lobster, it’s no secret that New England’s fisheries are suffering at the hands of rising water temperatures and ecological shifts related to…

Why ski to the South Pole and back? In the famous words of mountaineer George Mallory, "because it's there." And as long as we're going, why not do some…

David Gessner writes about the relevance of Henry David Thoreau during and after a pandemic

Hurricane Sandy. It’s been called Frankenstorm and it’s causing flashbacks to the Perfect Storm of 1991, when a Halloween Nor’Easter absorbed Hurricane…

Many teenagers are not getting adequate sleep.

Dr. Paul Foxman joins Mindy Todd on The Point to talk about anxiety in children: how, when and why it develops. He describes what parents can do to reduce…

Will Eastham vote for municipal water? At town meeting on May 6th, Eastham voters will be asked to approve a 114 million-dollar municipal water system.…

JFK and Bobby Kennedy came of age politically at the dawn of television, and catapulted the entire Kennedy family into the spotlight. We talk with the…