Coastal Program Coordinator News Today

This hour, we hear about the health of American Oystercatchers, herons, raptors and other native birds from the Connecticut Audubon Society and the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

The 27th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP-27) is a platform for 197 states, or ‘parties’ to discuss lessons learnt from the 6th Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report and how they will achieve the goals agreed to in the Paris Agreement, to keep global warming below 1.5°C-2°C.

The half-mile swath of piney rocklands on Big Pine Key, where Palm Avenue ends and a lunar-like landscape begins, shows in stark detail the relentless changes wrought by an ever-warming