Energy and Environment
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Heeding calls for an expansion of the Island’s aging energy infrastructure, utility giant Eversource is positioned this fall to begin work on a major project that will run two new 23-kilovolt power cables to Martha’s Vineyard.
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​The Marine Mammal Protection Act has governed the waters of Martha’s Vineyard and beyond for 50 years, imposing restrictions on fishing, hunting, shipping and travel to conserve mammals’ roles in marine ecosystems across the country.
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As the academic year wound down last week, West Tisbury school seventh graders boarded a boat and sailed from Menemsha for a day of outdoor learning and exploration. What they found, just 10 miles from the harbor, was an intersection between science, nature and history on Penikese Island.
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Hazardous levels of PFAS have been found in a private well in West Tisbury following a testing program offered to the town through the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection this past winter.
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With people and vehicles digging into the sand all along the east coast, retired MassWildlife ecologist Tim Simmons says wild beaches are few and far between — he figures most people have never even seen a wild beach. But on the Vineyard, the rare and endangered northeastern beach tiger beetle, a key signifier of uncorrupted beaches, has regained its footing.
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A young osprey perched high above the trees at Gus Ben David’s Edgartown home, basking in the late summer sun on a Friday morning. Its parents had already left on their annual migration, and in a few days time the bird would begin its own trek thousands of miles long to South America. Someday the bird will return, find a mate and build a nest of its own on the Vineyard.