environment

A Mashpee company is building out a network of micro tide gauges to share real-time water level data. It's helpful to a range of users, from boaters to emergency planners.

This week the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would push back planned protections for the North Atlantic right whale by another seven years.

Neighbors have objected to the plan by South Coast Renewables, a subsidiary of Parallel Products, to accept up to 1,500 tons of trash a day for transfer to disposal facilities elsewhere.

Migratory Hudsonian Whimbrels are arriving on the Cape and Islands. Shorebird scientists will be out next week looking for young whimbrels to tag.

Love it or hate it, The Steamship Authority’s redesigned Woods Hole terminal is here to stay, and it's built to last.

The state has launched a new initiative to make it easier for towns to apply for grant funding for environmental projects, and one of the first towns to benefit is Barnstable.

A federal groundfish permit is back in use off Martha’s Vineyard. Two nonprofit organizations teamed up back in 2015 to keep the permit available for local use.

A bill before the Senate Rules Committee would designate the Atlantic horseshoe crab as the official marine invertebrate of the Commonwealth. Why is the horseshoe crab special to Massachusetts?

A pilot project to install eelgrass-friendly moorings in Nantucket Harbor is underway, and there are still spots available for boat owners to participate.

Provincetown-based responders helped save a small humpback whale entangled in fishing gear off the North Shore on Wednesday.