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Rescue teams from the New England Aquarium, the Center for Coastal Studies, and the Barnstable harbormaster’s office came together to disentangle a six-foot-long, 400-pound leatherback.
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State officials are testing whether natural methods will work to restore sand dunes wiped away by winter storms.
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The shorebirds are rebounding, despite powerful coastal storms that destroyed nesting habitat.
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The company has opened a cannery in New Bedford, the first to open in New England in nearly a century, they say. To start, they’re canning single-origin mussels, hardshell, surf and razor clams, oysters, trout and salmon.
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The turtles released Tuesday are Electric Daisy, Dragon’s Breath, Lady Slipper, Dahlia, Cosmos, Lily Pad, Catmint, and Turtlehead.
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State environmental experts are reminding people what to keep in mind to keep boating adventures both fun, and incident-free.
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Real-time shark detection of tagged sharks off five popular beaches helps educate the public about how much time sharks are spending in the area. But many more untagged sharks are in local waters, scientists say.
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Two of the sites, encompassing nearly 254,000 acres, are off the Maine coast. The remaining six are located off Massachusetts.
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This summer, York and Cumberland Counties in Maine will update floodplain maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the first time in years. The maps show that hundreds of additional property owners may face flood risks.
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The first North Atlantic right whale calf of the season safely reached Cape Cod Bay with its mother this week. The news came the same day another new mother of the species was reported dead off Virginia, killed by “catastrophic injuries” from a boat collision, also known as a vessel strike. Her calf, born in December, has disappeared and is unlikely to survive.