Cape Cod Chronicle: Ecologically Unique And Globally Rare Habitat – The...
Coastal plain ponds are ecologically unique and a globally rare habitat. We have coastal plain ponds here on Cape Cod, proving once again that we live in a very special place. The Cape’s freshwater...
View ArticleWCAI: ‘I Felt Like I Was Poisoned’; Toxic Cyanobacteria Blooms Imperil...
A sign by the public entrance of Chilmark Pond warns of a toxic cyanobacteria bloom on On Sept. 11, 2020. EVE ZUCKOFF In early August, carpenter Michael Forgione told his mother that he was heading out...
View ArticleWBUR: Cape Cod Water Quality In Decline, Report Says
A kettle pond shoreline in the Cape Cod National Seashore (Courtesy CCNS) The water quality on Cape Cod’s ponds and bays is bad and getting worse, according to the second annual State of the Waters...
View ArticleWCAI: Returning Cranberry Bogs to Nature: The Green Exit Strategy
On a sunny day in October, an excavator is digging into a layer of sand and cranberry plants along the Child’s River, near the border of Falmouth and Mashpee. Tree stumps are scattered about, and...
View ArticleFor Immediate Release: New Regulations Governing Cape Cod and Islands Water...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (November 16, 2020) – The Cape Cod and Islands Water Protection Fund (CCIWPF) Management Board has approved regulations governing fund distribution. Adopted on October 7, 2020,...
View ArticleCape Cod Times: PFAS advisory: State asks people to limit or not eat fish...
Individuals particularly susceptible to PFAS exposure —children under 12, women of child-bearing age and pregnant and nursing women —were advised not to consume any fish caught in Flax Pond in Bourne,...
View ArticleCBS Boston: ‘Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage’ Cleaning Out One Pond At...
FALMOUTH (CBS) — We’ve all seen it. You’re smack-dab in the middle of a beautiful place in nature, and you see a piece of litter. Dr. Susan Baur, an 81-year-old avid swimmer, decided she had seen...
View ArticleThe Enterprise: APCC State Of The Waters Report: Optimism Despite Continued...
The water column grew clouded with algae. Species of shellfish, abundant just decades ago, disappeared along with the eelgrass. The story is the same for estuaries and bays across Cape Cod: water...
View ArticleWCAI: Water quality report: one-third of ponds tested on Cape Cod called...
One-third of ponds and nearly 90 percent of embayments on the Cape had ‘unacceptable’ water quality in 2020, according to the Association to Preserve Cape Cod’s third annual State of the Waters report,...
View ArticleWBUR: Cape Cod’s water quality is getting worse, report finds
A new report released Monday finds that surface water quality on Cape Cod has degraded for the third year in a row. The Association to Preserve Cape Cod’s annual State of the Waters report tracks the...
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