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Author events are popping up on two ends of SouthCoast, from the Cape line to South Dartmouth.

Staff at Harvard Book Store, Brookline Booksmith, Porter Square Books, Frugal Bookstore, and Trident Booksellers & Café share summer books.

Here are some recent works sure to address a wide range of climate change related goings-on – the good, the bad, and the ugly.

You can buy art to help people in Ukraine, share a letter you wish youd sent, attend a summer concert or learn through art made with ocean debris.

From Somerville to Topsfield and everywhere in between are, locally sourced, locally-owned businesses that have just what you need for the holidays

New research shows that in some places, global warming may mean that more severe weather is causing fewer birds to survive their epic migrations over the Gulf of Mexico or up the East Coast of the US. Storms either kill them outright or send them way off course, such as when dead White-tailed Tropicbirds, native to Bermuda, were found in New Hampshire, after Hurricane Irene. Researchers term such mass deaths "bird wrecks."

With International Talk Like A Pirate Day coming up, our friends at the Emirates Literature Foundation have shared books about pirates...

In the Northeast, September is the peak of hurricane season, so it is fitting that the Sept. 24 Warner Free Lecture Trust program will feature an...

ORLEANS – I was meditating at the end of the Rock Harbor jetty, when a passing charter captain scooped me up in a giant net. Suspended precariously above the bay, I paid close attention to the grizzled seaman as he barked out this message: "We all know that the pirate ship Whydah wrecked off Wellfleet in 1717. But did a companion vessel wreck on Pochet Island in the same storm?" My timbers were shivered by this piratical possibility! I whistled for the Curious Prius, which conveniently had j...

Mindy Todd is the host and producer of The Point on WCAI which examines critical issues for Cape Cod and the Islands. She brings more than 30 years of experience in radio and television to WCAI. After starting her broadcasting career as a midday DJ at WARE in Ware, Massachusetts, she quickly advanced to host of the morning drive show, which in 1981, made her one of the few women in broadcasting to anchor her own morning show. Her career has covered nearly all aspects of broa...