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2021 was one of the worst recent years in terms of fatal car crashes for the Cape.The region averages 13 or 14 traffic-related deaths, but there were 19 this past year.

BARNSTABLE — Even in the middle of a global pandemic, climate change forced its way onto media front pages over the past year with record heat, droughts, water shortages and unprecedented flooding. "It's not so much that climate change itself is proceeding faster than expected — the warming is right in line with model predictions from decades ago," said climate scientist Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University in a July 26 Reuters article. "Rather, it's the fact that some of the impacts are greater than scientists predicted." With nearly 600 miles of sandy coastline, Cape Cod is par...

As Rebecca Miller waded into Mashpee’s Santuit Pond, mesh plankton net in hand, a vacationing couple walking a pair of dogs was retreating from the shoreline. Like Miller, Matt Eastman and Alexis Parr are biologists, so they knew the importance of pulling the dogs back when they approached the pond’s gently lapping waters. “Benni just tried to drink the water and I made sure to tell him not to,” Eastman said of the couple’s schnauzer mix. “I heard on the local news in Connecticut that with all the rain there are high bacteria levels.” Eastman’s instinct was spot-on.