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A team from the Marine Biological Laboratory took water samples at six different estuaries in the Waquoit Bay system on Cape Cod and in New Bedford Harbor, and found microplastics in all of them.
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The Boston-based Conservation Law Foundation is moving forward with its lawsuit against Mashpee, Barnstable, and state environmental officials over pollution in Cape Cod bays and ponds.
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For 50 years, the National Weather Service has taken atmospheric readings twice a day from an outpost on Cape Cod. But now, the very storms it helps to predict have caused massive erosion on the bluff where the facility sits.
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In the last week, Barnstable County commissioners announced they would be exploring legal action, and a group representing 22 municipalities and 105 elected officials on the Cape and Islands added to the chorus of criticism.
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The Army National Guard proposal to build a machine gun range on Joint Base Cape Cod faced its first vote on Friday.
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The five-year study, being conducted by the Silent Spring Institute, is focusing on two communities in Eastern Massachusetts—Hyannis and the town of Ayer—where public drinking water supplies were contaminated by chemicals known as PFAS contained in firefighting foams used at nearby fire training areas.
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The Massachusetts Army National Guard has secured a key federal environmental approval that potentially puts it one step away from building a machine gun range on Joint Base Cape Cod,
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The plan targets the region’s highest emitting sectors — transportation and energy — and lays out a suite of local actions to lower greenhouse gas emissions and increase resilience to climate threats.
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Retiring to live near the sea is an age-old American dream. But for seniors, climate change is making coastal living increasingly risky.
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The goal of Michael Moore’s years-long research is to evaluate whether North Atlantic right whales are growing in healthy ways. The whales are nearing the end of a three-month period during which nearly half the population of approximately 360 can be spotted in Cape Cod Bay.