environment

The state Division of Marine Fisheries issued an advisory this week warning lobster fishers of low oxygen conditions in parts of Cape Cod Bay.

With summer over, it's time to clean the coast.

At Coonamessett Farm in East Falmouth, the pumpkin plants are suffering, because the irrigation system doesn't reach them, farmer Ron Smolowitz said.

At an emergency meeting on Thursday, the Barnstable County Board of Regional Commissioners authorized the use of surplus funds to keep AmeriCorps Cape Cod running through August.

New tracking devices are providing data on the behavior of loggerhead turtles who have been returned to the ocean after being cold-stunned and rehabilitated.

The annual conference of the Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions is one of the largest environmental conferences of its kind in New England.

There have been no confirmed cases of transmission of bird flu from human to human. Public health agencies want to keep it that way and have issued some common-sense guidelines.

Using more than $2.5 million in federal grant funds, The Association to Preserve Cape Cod, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and other agencies will work to restore fish passage in the Mashpee River.