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The sharp reaction came in response to a draft report released by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program that proposed adding the U.S. lobster fishery to its influential “Red List,” as a result of the fishery’s impacts on critically endangered right whales.
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The Truro Zoning Board of Appeals ruled that the owners of the teetering property will have to seek permission from the town’s building inspector, even as winter storms threaten to further erode the dune and send the house crashing to the beach below.
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Students from Falmouth High School, Falmouth Academy, and Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School submitted 57 photographs to be judged in three categories: climate impacts on nature, climate impacts on society, and community or individual solutions.
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The conflict within the lobster fishing community is the latest front in an ongoing battle over what accommodations fishermen can and should make to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales.
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At a virtual public hearing on Wednesday at 6 pm, the state will seek feedback from lobstermen, scallopers, clam dredgers, and others who may be affected by the authorization.
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The report, which grades water quality based on existing data compiled over years of water sampling and monitoring, found that the degradation in marine and freshwater environments is largely due to fertilizer use, stormwater runoff, and inadequately treated wastewater from septic systems.
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For the last two decades, scientists have been studying hormones trapped inside right whale poop to detect not only pregnancies, but male sexual maturity, metabolism, and stress.
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Two nearly identical bills say that any time a proposed project on the base would destroy or clearcut 10 or more acres of forest land, a public hearing must be held in an Upper Cape town.
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A consultant hired to advise Nantucket on whether to replace natural fields with artificial turf has ignited a fierce debate on the islands. CAI's Eve Zuckoff speaks to the consultant, and to the reporters whose story in E&E news sparked interest.
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Since August, the E.P.A. has been investigating whether activity on the proposed range could create a significant public health hazard by contaminating the drinking water that runs beneath the base.