environment

The Association to Preserve Cape Cod has released its annual State of the Waters: Cape Cod report.

Wild oyster reefs are functionally extinct in Massachusetts. But efforts are underway to restore the coastal ecosystems, starting with Mashpee’s Hamblin Pond.

Researchers have identified a new-to-the-area North Atlantic right whale. They say it came three-thousand miles to get here.

The North Atlantic right whale calving season is underway. Researchers spotted the first mother and calf pair off the coast of South Carolina on Friday.

Federal regulators have been electronically tracking commercial lobster boats for a couple of years. It's a practice that was recently upheld by a federal appeals court.

How do you give a whale a health checkup? Scientists have been collecting respiratory droplets from North Atlantic right whales, using petri-dish-carrying drones flying above their blowholes.

Officials have determined that a deceased sperm whale that washed up on the north shore of Nantucket on Sunday is too big to move for a necropsy.

This week Massachusetts rolled out a statewide strategy to help coastal communities protect residents, strengthen local infrastructure, and safeguard natural resources.

Ken Buesseler is a Senior Scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and next week he’ll be in Belém, Brazil at the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference.

The tenth annual Great Beach Cleanup, along the National Seashore, is in the books. But it wasn’t without its challenges.