March 10, 2021 7 pm | Zoom Maria Mitchell Winter Science Speaker Series: The Debris Diet: HOW MICROPLASTICS ARE INFILTRATING THE MARINE FOOD CHAIN Speaker Isabella Gaw One of the most pervasive anthro…
Managing Water as Sea Levels Rise, What to Expect in the Future and Preparing to Respond
February 6th, 2021, the Nantucket Civic League held a public forum "Managing Water as Sea Levels Rise, What to Expect in the Future and Preparing to Respond" - Live Q&A The forum focused on key q…
Lessening the Harmful Environmental Effects of the Clothing Industry
Editorial by PlanetAid.org When people think of pollution, they typically think of CO2 emissions, also known as greenhouse gases, coming from large industrial plants and highways clogged with vehicle …
The Nantucket Coastal Resilience Plan Open House
January 28, 2021 5:30 pm, Virtual Open House Dear Nantucket Community Member, I am writing today to announce the launch of the public planning process leading to Nantucket’s first comprehensive Coasta…
Ocean Science Centers New Partnership Between Schmidt Ocean Institute and United Nations Ocean Decade
Press Release from Schmidt Ocean Institute BY SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE ON DECEMBER 10, 2020 PARIS, FRANCE— The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC-UNESCO), the United Nations body…
California’s climate change reality an opportunity for Gov. Newsom to quit fossil fuels
Published in The Sacramento Bee BY WENDY SCHMIDT SPECIAL TO THE SACRAMENTO BEE In 1966, when smog obscured the Los Angeles skyline and residents choked on noxious fumes, California enacted the countr…
Climate Change on a Local Level
by Dr. Sarah Treanor Bois, Published by Yesterday's Island Director of Research & Education at the Linda Loring Nature Foundation In early September, the Coastal Resiliency Advisory Committee for …
2020 Nantucket Census
Make Nantucket Better: Complete The Census On Nantucket whose voice gets heard? What would an accurate portrait of the island’s population tell us about ourselves? These are core questions of the U.S.…