Climate change

May 27, 2021

Local Efforts Lead the Way in Combating Climate Change

Kate Warner
Recent local events give me hope at a time when climate change news is becoming more and more dire.
Climate change
July 22, 2021

Time to Mobilize for Climate Change

Kate Warner
As a heat dome persists over the American West, an untamable wildfire rages over southern Oregon and record hot temperatures and water shortages make life in the West difficult, floods in much of Europe — Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland, parts of England and now China — have also had a devastating effect.
Climate change
July 22, 2021

Undersea Cable Failure Highlights Stress on Vineyard Energy Grid

Noah Asimow
Eversource has canceled a long-awaited battery energy storage project planned for Martha’s Vineyard, complicating a plan to achieve ambitious green energy goals on the Vineyard.
Eversource
Electricity/power
Climate change
Island Climate Action Network
August 12, 2021

Fate of the Land Is in Our Hands

Brendan O'Neill
The Martha’s Vineyard Commission is taking an important step to address the Island’s growth crisis through a new carrying capacity study.
Climate change

1998

August 28, 1998

Study of Global Warming Predicts the Island Faces Flooding in Near Future

Julia Wells
Climate change
Sea level rise

A startling new national report that uses computer imaging to flag the effects of global warming on the Massachusetts coast shows that the south shore of the Vineyard will be washed away and downtown Edgartown will be a swamp in 50 years — even if the most conservative projections about rising sea levels are correct.

The report was issued yesterday by the National Environmental Trust (NET), a nonprofit, nonpartisan group based in Washington, D.C.

Island Takes Action on Climate

Islanders headed to the Climate Fair on Sunday at the Agricultural Hall to learn about environmental issues and take action.

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