Nature & Science
The Vineyard was a scene of flooded roads and docks, eroded shorelines, beached sailboats and downed trees on Saturday.
Eversource will not spray herbicides around power lines on the Island this year, but debate is far from over as the utility giant files a five-year plan that would allow continued spraying.
After a year of rising concern about North Atlantic right whales, scientists have yet to document a single newborn whale during calving season.
Nothing was truer for February than the proverb “when it rains, it pours.”
An osprey — possibly everyone’s favorite species along with snowy owls — was heard calling over Major’s Cove.
Take a moment this weekend to look towards the western sky just after sunset.

