Telling when the southbound migration starts can be problematic.

Chilmark Pond has a new helper to monitor and preserve the approximately 200-acre waterbody that has been plagued by toxic bacteria blooms for the last several years. 

For stargazers, this is the best time of year. The weather is ideal for late night stargazing.

A new bill before the state legislature that proposes to change how Massachusetts defines when certain beaches are considered public is making waves on Martha’s Vineyard and could upend centuries of precedent. 

It must have been a very dramatic moment.

To put it mildly, semipalmated plovers (common southbound migrants) look very similar to the common ringed plover, which nests as close as Greenland and Europe while it winters in Africa and Asia.