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The number of Cape Cod’s coastal embayments with unacceptable water quality continues to increase, and one-third of freshwater ponds that were evaluated have unacceptable water quality, while the quality of

Residents and visitors of the Cape and Islands may see new fins when the North Atlantic right whales return to New England from their wintertime southern calving waters. Florida-based Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute announced in a press release that its researchers “spotted the first North Atlantic right whale mom and calf pair of the […]

A spate of North Atlantic right whale deaths that began in 2017 shook the scientists who study the critically endangered species. That year, 17 whales died, and the losses prompted the U.S.’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to declare an “unusual mortality event” for them, which remains ongoing. In the years since, at least […]

Days of higher-than-normal high tides are rising along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, NOAA says, warning of the increased potential for flooding.

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The sighting happened about four miles off the coast of Wellfleet, in Cape Cod Bay, in about 60 feet of water at the time, delighting a vacationing family fishing for lobster.

Endangered right whales are most active in Cape Cod Bay 18 days later than before.

No dead right whales have been spotted. Fifteen calves were born — the second-largest number since 2015. And observers were impressed by the saga of one whale, a mother who, injured and entangled in fishing gear, managed to escort her calf a thousand miles up the coast

The dolphins were released from Herring Cove Beach in Provincetown after about seven hours of work. Learn more at Boston.com.

Local residents demanded a safer decommissioning of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station this week at a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission meeting in Plymouth. The agency hosted the meeting — one of several around the country — to explain new rules proposed for the decommissioning of nuclear power plants. Leslie Danielson of Plymouth was one of many residents to speak against the possibility of Pilgrim owner Holtec releasing radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay.