Rising sea waters, massive storm surges, and plastics bobbing in the middle of the oceans have left the residents of Nantucket feeling like they are on the front-lines of looming global challenges. I…
The annual Nantucket Biodiversity Initiative
The annual Nantucket Biodiversity Initiative is underway all this week, through Sunday, June 13. Multiple conservation and natural science organizations will showcase the teeming biodiversity found on…
Nantucket’s Water Quality Analysis & Visualization (WQAV) Public Interface
Open to all. Friday, June 11, 2021 5 pm Town of Nantucket's Natural Resources Department presents: Water Quality on the Web Sea Grant Program, MIT’s Ben Bray in partnership with the Nantucket Natural …
Envision Resilience Nantucket Public Presentation
You're Invited! Wednesday, June 2, 2021 2 pm to 5 pm Great Harbor Yacht Club 96 Washington St, Nantucket Please join Envision Resilience Challange on Wednesday, June 2 for an afternoon of envisioning …
Hazardous Waste Collection Event
April 10, 2021, 9:00 am-1:00 pm For households and very small quantity commercial generators (VSQG). The Town of Nantucket encourages all homeowners and very small commercial generators to drop off a…
Nantucket Litter Derby 2021
April 17-18, 2021 The Nantucket Litter Derby is back! Add To My Calendar Over three and a half tons of litter was collected in just 5 hours by 24 teams during the first annual Nantucket Litter Derby i…
Clean Water for All
March 18 & April 15, 2021 Clean Water for All! Footprints is excited to announce Nantucket Land Council’s special editions to their Clean Water: Topics on Tap webinar series. Join them for these …
Blooms driven by climate change threaten to smother marine life in Arabian Sea
Published in Mongabay BY MALAVIKA VYAWAHARE ON OCTOBER 7, 2020 On Feb. 26, 2003, a group of scientists set out to sea from Goa, India, on a routine mission. They called it “sea truthing,” verifying da…