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We could be saying goodbye to long-planned space missions, new weather satellites, and crucial life-saving treatments.
Local climate activists are on edge after people claiming to be FBI agents visited at least six at their homes on the same day in Greater Boston in March. Weeks later, the motivations behind these visits remain a mystery.
The insurance industry used the public database to estimate future costs, while local governments turned to it for lessons on building resilient infrastructure.
BARNSTABLE – Between expanded fishing and oil drilling, more commercial enterprises could be coming to the waters around of Cape Cod. The Trump Administration has issued multiple executive or…
There’s a deadly chemical in your cutting board. Alarming new research finds that 13 percent of U.S. heart disease deaths in people aged 55 to 64 can be linked to exposure to a chemical group commonly found in plastics. In 2018 alone, these phthalates contributed to 350,000 annual global deaths from heart disease. This data comes after the Food and Drug Administration under President Joe Biden declined to institute a total ban on phthalate-laden plastics in products that come in contact with food, such as wrappers, cookware, and cutting boards.
BARNSTABLE – The Cape Cod and Islands Water Protection Fund Management Board has voted to award over $105 million in subsidies to fourteen wastewater projects across Cape Cod. The towns are Falmout…
Bill McKibben on the tech mogul’s supercomputer Colossus—situated on the edge of a predominantly Black neighborhood in Memphis—which is raising concern among locals.
If you’re lucky like me, you haven’t had to think about what comes out of your tap. Or whether it will come at all. But then decades of wear and tear caught up with us. And water utilities are (forgive the pun) underwater. Today, they’re removing old lead drinking water pipes. They’re building treatment systems to get rid of PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. They’re recycling wastewater and filtering sea water for drinking. Many need to be ready to deliver enough water to firefighters in case an entire neighborhood goes up in flames. And then there’s the general catching up on decades of deferred maintenance as local officials avoided the unpopular decision to raise rates. The Environmental Protection Agency, which regulates drinking water in the U.S., estimates $625 billion is needed over the next 20 years for these upgrades.
CHATHAM – The town of Chatham has instituted an emergency shellfish closure due to “red tide”. Shellfishing is banned until further notice in the following areas: Pleasant Bay, Jackknife, Potter’s …
02 May 2025 - ORELANS, MA - This spring 16 towns in Massachusetts, most on Cape Cod, have ballot questions asking the state to stop the evaporation of radioactive water evaporation by Holtec as part of the shut down of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth.
WASHINGTON — A multibillion-dollar Environmental Protection Agency program designed to spur investment in energy-efficiency improvements nationwide is tied up in a legal battle that threatens to upend planned projects across the United States focused on affordable housing, the adoption of electric vehicles and more. The EPA last month said it was terminating grants tied to […]
A measure that would prevent development in state parks was passed unanimously in the Florida Senate on Wednesday, 37-0. However, the measure now must go back to the House for one more vote before it can arrive on Gov. DeSantis’ desk to be signed into law. The State Park Preservation Act (HB 209) was filed […]
The U.S. and Ukraine signed the long-awaited minerals agreement on April 30, paving the way for further American support of Kyiv through a joint investment fund that will contribute to Ukraine’s reconstruction.
The deal comes after months of sometimes fraught negotiations, including an Oval Office shouting match between
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APOLLO BEACH, Fla. (WFLA)— More than 1,000 corals that were born at The Florida Aquarium are headed to the Florida Keys. The elkhorn corals were transported to the Florida Keys, where they will be planted on the reef or nurtured in ocean-based nurseries, the Florida Aquarium said. The baby corals were born in 2022 and 2023 at the Aquarium. They came from rescued parent colonies originally from Florida’s Coral Reef.
Soaps, lotions and shampoos were found to have formaldehyde and formaldehyde-releasing preservatives.
HYANNIS – The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear challenges that were brought against Vineyard Wind. The cases were brought by the Responsible Offshore Development Alliance, and the Texas Publ…
Are we as blind to climate risks as NYC was to financial risk in the '70s?
Plus, consumers could be protected from insurer meltdowns, dueling communities reach rare agreement over water rights, and rural America scores access to clean water.
HYANNIS – Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell has joined 17 other attorneys general in suing the Trump Administration over halting federal approvals for wind energy projects. A…
Bird migration at Oak Hammock Marsh in Manitoba, Canada. (Photo credit: Travel Manitoba/Wikimedia Commons) Human-related causes leave birds susceptible to injury and death. By Jairus James During their spring migration, billions of birds fly from their southern wintering habitats.
CHILMARK – A dead minke whale washed ashore on Chilmark over the weekend. Federal officials, as well as the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), are investigating the cause of death…
Funding cuts and geopolitical shifts threaten the survival of the global digital rights ecosystem at a moment when it is needed most, writes Ramsha Jahangir.
A Wall Street auto analyst says the Big Three American carmakers are unlikely to benefit much, while Musk’s Tesla gets a leg up for now.
When I was a kid growing up in Pensacola, I’d come home from school and immediately turn on “The Big Show” on WKRG-TV. The avuncular host, Max Goodman, showed a lot of ’50s monster movies, and that’s where I learned about the transformative power of radioactivity. Those movies taught me that radiation can make a […]
If the bill is signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida would be the second state, after Utah, to ban the additive from its drinking water sources.
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