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The Martha's Vineyard Times 1 of 23 A Toyota 4Runner that skidded of Middle Road in Chilmark Sunday afternoon. —Rich Saltzberg A Toyota 4Runner that skidded of Middle Road in Chilmark Sunday afternoon. —Rich Saltzberg Chilmark Police at the scene of an SUV accident on Middle Road Sunday afternoon. —Rich Saltzberg Plows at Beetlebung Corner in Chilmark. —Rich Saltzberg A front-end loader rigged with a plow helped clear the runways at Martha's Vineyard Airport Sunday. —Rich Saltzberg Snow whitened East Chop Drive in Oak Bluffs. —Rich Saltzberg Tisbury had snow on Beach R...

Iain McGregor/Stuff Emperor penguins on the frozen Ross Sea – but what does the future hold for them? “Some species will flourish when waters warm, glaciers retreat or sea ice cover decreases. Others will be increasingly squeezed into smaller and smaller refuge habitats,” he said. “Already some species are expanding southwards as the Antarctic Peninsula warms.” As temperatures increase the need for strict biosecurity will be greater than ever to ensure organisms are not transferred by tourists or scientists, he said. The research concluded that climate change is the greatest �...

January 14, 2021 at 12:29 pm by Max Abrams Standing atop the Himalayan Mountains, Alex Johnson was, quite literally, on top of the world.  By 28, he was on the path to his third degree — a Ph.D. in geology at UC Santa Barbara — had helped numerous undergraduate students spread their wings and had circled the planet in search of rocks, from the hot deserts of Oman to the snowy heights of the Himalayas.  With multiple teaching and mentorship awards to his name, the Prince George, Virginia native was well on his way to achieving his goals of becoming a geology professor...