environment

An international cargo plane on Thursday dumped 6,000 gallons of fuel over the Cape and Islands during an emergency return to New York after a horse aboard the jet escaped its stall.

Nonprofit is restoring the Pleasant Bay island to its Indigenous history.

A summit in Harwich aims to help restaurants reduce plastic trash generated by takeout.

Four projects on the Cape received most of the $2 million awarded by the state's Office of Coastal Zone Management last week.

"The question going forward will be, 'Can we protect the quality of wetlands from the encroachment of development?'"

Two years ago, a Town Meeting article that would have banned the sale of small, single-use plastic water bottles failed by just nine votes. The article is back again this year, along with another one that would ban the use of plastic containers for take-out food in Yarmouth.

Rapid development over the last few decades has fragmented the Cape’s critical habitats, impaired drinking water, and degraded water quality, according to a new report from the Association to Preserve Cape Cod.

Barnstable veterinarians performed emergency surgery on the bird's snapped leg.

The wetlands aim to remove phosphorus from Long Pond, which has been beset with cyanobacteria blooms.

Warmer ocean temperatures mean a record late start for annual stranding season, says New England Aquarium.