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00000177-ba84-d5f4-a5ff-bbfca0fe0000A look at our region’s trash troublesRecycling rates are up. The amount of trash we're throwing into landfills and burning in incinerators is down. But with all that progress, our region still faces serious challenges when it comes to our trash. In WCAI's newest series, we look at our trash troubles—everything from the rising recycling costs, to our propensity to just dump stuff in the woods, to the fact that we're closely approaching the day when the landfills we already have will be full.Made possible in part by support from the Circle of Ten—ten local businesses and organizations dedicated to supporting local programming.

00000177-ba84-d5f4-a5ff-bbfca10c0000Confronting Death and DyingWCAI Original Reporting SeriesLearning how to live with death may be the hardest lesson, but the most important. In our series “Our Mortal Lives,” we explore how residents along the Cape, Coast, and Islands cope with end-of-life issues. How is death handled, how is it changing, and what are our choices? As a culture we don’t like to talk about this. But we're going to, because death happens to all of us. It’s a part of life. "Our Mortal Lives: Confronting Death and Dying," is a 5-part series airing November 14-18. During this week WCAI's public affairs show The Point is also focusing on end-of-life issues. All of our reporting around this topic is gathered here on this page.

00000177-ba84-d5f4-a5ff-bbfca1e80000 Our series Ways of Life is a collection of stories about people who live down the street... our neighbors: Fishermen, scientists, craftspeople, recovering addicts, surgeons, dog rescuers, motorcycle gang members, nursing home residents, musicians, the homeless, kid athletes, social activists, and all the others who share this place.Each portrait becomes part of the surprising, interwoven tapestry of our lives together here on the Cape, Coast and Islands. Ways of Life is produced by our production partners at Atlantic Public Media through their media training program: The Transom Story Workshop.Ways of Life is made possible by The Circle of Ten, ten local businesses and organizations committed to local programming on WCAI.

00000177-ba84-d5f4-a5ff-bbfca2150000Cape Cod is home to twice the national average of people 65 and older. This has impacts for the region in almost every measure of a community: in the economy, the workforce, health care, and family structures. There are ways in which it poses a challenge to the region—but equally, it’s a source of opportunity.Our new 5-part series examines how ideas about aging beyond 65 are changing, and how, thanks to advances in medicine and technology, the reality of aging is changing, too. Exploring this transformation, we look at emploment, social connection, "aging in place," and the impact of the opioid epidemic.It airs all the week of December 11, 2017.

00000177-ba84-d5f4-a5ff-bbfca26e0000The North Atlantic right whale is facing extinction. Researchers estimate there are less than 450 left. Of those, about 100 are reproductive females.Last year, at least 16 of the whales were found dead, while just 5 new calves were identified. The math is against the species.If nothing is done to alter the equation, scientists say, the North Atlantic right whale could be functionally extinct in 20 years.But an effort is underway to save them.WCAI examines the challenges facing the North Atlantic right whale, and the people working to preserve the species, in a new reporting series, “In the Shadow of Extinction.”