Carpenter bees are coming out of the woodwork.

A $15,000 state grant announced this week will go to the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation to replace two undersized culverts on the brook in Chilmark.

All of a sudden, after only a week of hot summer weather, the volume of bird song is greatly diminished.

Biologists and environmental groups are monitoring an invasive jellyfish with a painful sting that has spread into Vineyard waters in recent years.

Impassable for some boats at low tide, the channel at Lake Tashmoo could be dredged this summer. But first there is red tape to untangle.

Tucked away in the woods of West Tisbury, the Polly Hill Arboretum has served as a not-so-secret garden since 1958.