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Up is Down

If I were to come to your house and burn it down or bulldoze it to the ground, you might reasonably think that I had done you harm. Most people would apply a common sense standard that harm occurs when the place you live is destroyed. Until last week, that was the...
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We Need You

It is that time of year again. Along with sun-filled days and time outside with friends and family, early summer also brings with it APCC’s Summer Appeal. While no one enjoys asking for money, the hard truth is that the job of speaking for the Cape’s environment has...
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Death, taxes and… ?

The answer could be a lot of things but for this purpose it is cyanobacteria. Along with the transition from cool spring to hot summer, we are starting to see the return of unwelcome but increasingly familiar cyanobacteria blooms. Along with providing yet another...
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Rally with Us!

The overwhelmingly positive reaction to The Cape We Shape campaign has validated one of our foundational assumptions. There is widespread public support for preserving at-risk sensitive open space essential to the protection of water quality and critical habitat....
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Spare the Spray

I spent some time the other day watching a pair of birds taking turns feeding their chicks. Back and forth they went bringing soft caterpillars to drop in hungry mouths making more than 150 feeding trips a day for a few weeks before their hungry chicks fledge from the...