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Communities across Cape Cod will soon welcome nine college students from around the country to develop plans for affordable, sustainable, and climate resilient housing.
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"Every dollar invested in disaster mitigation pays back six times over in avoided losses—and not just in economic terms," Dr. Alison Brizius said in an exclusive interview with CAI. "It pays back in terms of all of the disruption that we avoid to the lives of our residents and our businesses."
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Offshore wind developments and critically endangered right whales are sharing the same waters off our coast, which has raised the question: how safely can they coexist? CAI’s Eve Zuckoff has spent the last few months talking to scientists and cutting through misinformation.
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O’Brien theorized that the whale may have traveled from the West Coast through waters north of Canada and down the Maine coast.
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WHOI scientists have deployed new water-level sensors in Woods Hole and Chatham that will give towns better data on coastal flooding.
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In the early 2000s, scientists began finding what appeared to be bald spots in dense, grassy salt marshes up and down the East Coast. These patches have since multiplied, and they now threaten to destroy coastal landscapes. Eventually, the culprit was identified: persistent, ravenous, purple crabs. Finally, scientists may have a plan to beat them.
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The state is looking to limit new homes from being built along the most vulnerable areas of the coast as part of an effort to better prepare for climate change.
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Next week marks 50 years of the Endangered Species Act. The bedrock environmental law is credited with saving 291 species from extinction, or 99% of species listed as endangered or threatened. It has also drawn criticism for being too overreaching.
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The report explores how climate change has, for dozens of species, disrupted ecosystems, changed where whales go, led to a decline in reproduction, and even an increase in inter-species aggression.
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A new generation of architecture students is facing a reality that climate change will radically alter how buildings are conceived, and they’re the ones who will have to find solutions. But first, they have to learn how. And this unique building in New Bedford offers a perfect test case.