Birders will flock to the Gay Head Cliffs for the next month or two, especially in the early morning.

“Wait a second,” might have been Megan Draheim’s first thought when she saw a small snake on a trail at Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary.  

A team from the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Woods Hole recently completed a Martha’s Vineyard climate risk assessment, looking at how a two-degree increase in global temperatures could impact several climatic factors on-Island.

If you are looking for a piece of autumn in the evening sky stay up late and go outside.

As climate change intensifies and the ocean around the Vineyard rises, scientists and Island officials are concerned that salt water could permeate through the Island’s ground water, threatening the potability of its only source of drinking water.

State conservation officials have made plans to cut down a stand of pest-ridden pine trees in the northwestern section of the Manuel F. Correllus state forest, after finding an infestation of the southern pine beetle earlier this summer.