Communities across the state — and on the Outer Cape — are beginning mandatory testing of their public water supplies for PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), a group of compounds […]
Environment
WATER FIGHT
Water Skiing Roils Eastham Pond
Enforcement of existing rules is one solution, notes Beebe
EASTHAM — What began as an effort to improve safety in tidal creek areas by revising boating bylaws has churned up discord among residents over water skiing and motorboat use […]
RARA AVIS
This Week’s Bird Sightings
Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, April 6 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
GOBBLEDYGOOK
For Wild Turkeys, It’s Strutting Time
Rafters of birds, where for a time there were none
They came from New York — 37 of them, trapped with a cannon-net set by Massachusetts wildlife biologists — to the Berkshires, at first. Then new generations spread statewide. Some […]
ENVIRONMENT
United on Shutting Pilgrim Reactor, Advocates Differ on Nuclear Waste
Navajo activist calls New Mexico plan ‘blatant environmental racism’
PLYMOUTH — The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station has been shut down, but the arguments over what to do with its highly radioactive spent fuel are heating up. A Navajo activist […]
RISING WATERS
Before the Deluge: Plans for Commercial Street
‘Creative adaptation’ to flooding and insurance
PROVINCETOWN — Floodwaters are a primal force, invading the landscape, insisting that things must change. In the January 2018 flood, for example, seawater coursed down Gosnold Street and filled a […]
RARA AVIS
This Week’s Bird Sightings
Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, March 30 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
WHALE WATCH
Three Mother-Calf Pairs Are Bright Spot in Dismal Reality
In Cape Cod Bay, scientists count one-fourth of the world’s remaining North Atlantic right whales
PROVINCETOWN — The Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) March 3 sighting of Millipede, a 16-year-old North Atlantic right whale, and her newborn calf — the season’s first — in Cape Cod […]
ENVIRONMENT
Eversource to Use Glyphosate on Power Lines
The company will clear rights-of-way with herbicides this summer
Wellfleet and Eastham are among a dozen towns on the Cape and Martha’s Vineyard scheduled for herbicide application this year by Eversource along the company’s rights-of-way. Workers will be out […]
ENVIRONMENT
The Eastham Herring Count Returns
Volunteers are eager to count fish, ‘even in the pouring rain’
EASTHAM — A scout was spotted by a natural resources dept. officer at the Bridge Pond run on March 12. A herring scout, that is — one of the individual […]
RARA AVIS
This Week’s Bird Sightings
Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, March 23 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
RARA AVIS
This Week’s Bird Sightings
Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, March 16 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
RARA AVIS
This Week’s Bird Sightings
Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, March 9 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
ENERGY
Eastham Contemplates Solar Self-Sufficiency
Proposals include canopies at the transfer station and a 3-acre solar farm
EASTHAM — Eastham could have a surplus of energy should four new solar projects move forward. “The town of Eastham, with the completion of these projects — if they were […]
ENVIRONMENT
Study Finds Nutrients Increase Coastal Acidification
A new council is proposed in hopes of protecting shellfish
WELLFLEET — With a minus-0.6-foot low tide at 5:11 p.m. and the sun setting at 5:26, Bob Wallace and Mattias Christensen have no time to lose. Their oysters have been […]
