When Mark Sinawski, an inmate at the Barnstable County Correctional Facility, questioned whether the water there was safe to drink, grantee Eve Zuckoff went to test the water in a region where traces of "forever chemicals" have been found. CAI pulitzercenter.org/stories/how-mu…

Fisherman’s Beach on #Nantucket’s south shore lost a total of 59 linear feet of dunes in the three successive storms earlier this month, per the town’s Natural Resources Department’s erosion monitoring program 😮 What was a smooth walk down to the shore is now a 10-ft drop off👇

Report for America, which funds of hundreds of local journalists, will no longer support positions at Gannett, Alden, or any newspapers owned by private equity or hedge funds because "that business model isn’t the future for robust local news." journal-isms.com/2024/03/j-grou…

Vineyard Wind update: Looks like 11 of the monopiles are up, and the turbines in various stages of completion. 51 more to go. As seen from Cisco today. #nantucket

When young right whale 5120 died in January, people were quick to blame an offshore wind project nearby. The death was emotional - there are less than 360 of these whales left. Eve Zuckoff reports on what really happened for Science Friday and CAI sciencefriday.com/segments/offsh…

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More awful news for a species on the brink: Yet another endangered right whale has been found dead — this one an adult female that recently gave birth to a calf. It's unlikely the calf will survive either. The whale was found off Va. More details here: shorturl.at/noFJL

When a young North Atlantic right whale died in January, the news got a lot of attention, and many blamed offshore wind turbines. In today's episode, Eve Zuckoff joins us to talk about what's putting these whales at risk of extinction. Listen here 🎧: pod.link/73329284

A 4.8 magnitude earthquake centered in New Jersey has been felt locally. Did you feel it? earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ev…

More bad news for a critically endangered species: Another right whale was just found to be suffering from a severe entanglement. The adult male, spotted south of Block Island, has rope "coming out of both sides of its mouth," NOAA reports. More here: fisheries.noaa.gov/national/endan…

The Cape Cod Canal's facility is the only tidal test site in the country with a license that allow turbines to generate renewable electricity and send it to the grid. capeandislands.org/local-news/202…

Another critically endangered North Atlantic right whale was spotted over the weekend entangled in fishing gear around its mouth. This is an adult female -- thide needed most -- found in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, according to Canadian officials.

WILD NOAA shot of killer whale feeding on tuna south of #Nantucket 😮 A recent aerial survey of the waters south of Nantucket and the Vineyard by NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center revealed "a dazzling array of sightings" including an orca with a tuna in its mouth.

Remember all those stranded dolphins in Wellfleet? The event last month was the largest dolphin-stranding event in U.S. history. Cape Cod's ifaw reports 102 of 146 dolphins were returned to the water.

Another critically endangered North Atlantic right whale has been found suffering from a severe entanglement in what appears to be fishing gear. This male, known oddly as Dropcloth, was found in Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence, according to Fisheries and Oceans Canada.