The environmental challenges in the Amazon rainforest and Arctic permafrost may seem far removed from those in Provincetown, but what happens in one place can drastically affect the present and […]
Climate Change
WHITEOUTS AND BLACKOUTS
Blizzard Review: Power to the Outermost People
Eversource’s long-awaited battery backup system is promised by summer
PROVINCETOWN — The first large-scale battery backup system on Cape Cod is set to go online in Provincetown this summer. When it does, according to electric utility officials, power outages […]
CLIMATE CRISIS
Coastal Studies’ Rich Delaney Is Going to Glasgow
A small-town CEO with global influence at U.N. conference
PROVINCETOWN — Center for Coastal Studies CEO Rich Delaney may sit in the driver’s seat of a small nonprofit working to save the whales in Provincetown, but he has a […]
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Climate Change and Wellfleet’s Marshes
Meetings Ahead
All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to Wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]
CLIMATE CRISIS
This Summer, We’ll Be Feeling More Than Just the Heat
Cyanobacteria blooms and mosquito booms expected to rise, too
PROVINCETOWN — In the face of climate change and humans’ apparent inability to forestall what is becoming an increasingly irreversible disaster, drink water. Also, you’ll need to use more bug […]
THE SCUTTLEBUTT
More Warm-water Fish Are Showing Up Here
Reports of albacore tuna and white marlin reflect climate change
This past week saw more evidence of the effects of global warming on our oceans. We continue to see more warm-water fish moving up into our area. Charter boats out of […]
OP-ED
We Must Act Locally on Climate
Building committee has wrongly nixed a net-zero emissions high school
Climate change is a clear and present danger to our community and to humanity as a whole. We are digging a hole for ourselves by continuing to produce greenhouse gas […]
SCIENCE AT RISK: PART 1
Seashore’s Scientists Search for the Way Forward
Budget cuts could undermine research efforts
This is the first in a series of articles on the Cape Cod National Seashore’s science program. It explores why science matters at the Seashore and why it’s at risk.
Science Meets Art in Dan Ranalli’s Compositions
The Wellfleet photographer takes Broto into the future
In the course of an artist’s lifetime, a recurrent theme may emerge almost of its own accord, with an urgency that cannot be ignored. That has certainly been the case […]
REFLECTIONS
No Winter, No Summer
Notes on another calamity of 204 years ago
Sorry, Farmer’s Almanac. Your prediction of colder than normal temperatures this winter from Washington to Boston proved to be very wrong. Indeed, this is being called “the year without a […]
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Deep Time and This Day
What do we owe to the distant future?
I have been invited to participate in a (virtual) panel discussion at Ian Edwards’s Art-Science-Climate Broto conference scheduled for May 16-17 in Provincetown. The topic is “Deep Time and Climate […]
ENVIRONMENT
Ice Sports Are Just Memories As Ponds Warm
Cape Cod’s kettle ponds prove highly sensitive to climate change
WELLFLEET — Jake McGrath of Eastham counts the number of days when the temperature stays below freezing. He’s not counting down to summer. He’s hoping it will stay cold enough […]
RISING WATERS
Buildings Are Raised Against Future Floods
But for now, only a few will be lifted
PROVINCETOWN — The Old Reliable Fish House property at 227R Commercial St. may be getting rebuilt on piers, and in the applications there’s an eye-popping number for their height: 17 […]
ENVIRONMENT
Globe Brings Cape’s Climate Crisis to City Audience
A follow-up conference raises issues of equity, justice, and retreat from the coast
BOSTON — The Boston Globe’s multimedia reporting project “At the Edge of a Warming World,” published with much fanfare last month, held few surprises for Cape Codders. Most of it […]
