May 10, 11, 12
Everyplace has a story to tell. Will you help to tell the tale?

Sengekontacket is one of the Island's most beloved places. Whether you drive down beach road, swim at State Beach, kayak, clam, or just enjoy the beauty of Sengekontacket, you are a part of its community. Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary and Martha's Vineyard Museum are hosting a Sengekontacket Quest Workshop and need people to participate in the development of a Kayak Quest that will be used this summer at Felix Neck to teach people about the pond's unique people, places, and wildlife.

Questing is a place-based education model of creating and exchanging treasure hunts in order to collect and share a community's distinct natural and cultural heritage -- its special places and stories.

If you or someone that you know would like to share your stories of Sengekontacket or help write the Quest, please contact Suzan Bellincampi, Sanctuary Director at Felix Neck at 508 627-4850 or sbellincampi@massaudubon.org for the details.

Chappaquiddick is now an island again, thanks to Mother Nature and her powerful ways. Bill Brine has taken some spectacular aerial photos of the breach at Norton’s point. Go to http://picasaweb.google.com/Bill.Brine/NortonPointBreach to see the dramatic difference.

BELTSVILLE, Md., April 23 — What is happening to the bees?

SUSPECTS The volume of theories to explain the collapse of honeybee populations “is totally mind-boggling,” said Diana Cox-Foster, an entomologist at Penn State.

More than a quarter of the country’s 2.4 million bee colonies have been lost — tens of billions of bees, according to an estimate from the Apiary Inspectors of America, a national group that tracks beekeeping. So far, no one can say what is causing the bees to become disoriented and fail to return to their hives.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/
science/24bees.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

WASHINGTON — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency repeatedly refused to say Tuesday how soon he will comply with a Supreme Court ruling and decide whether to regulate carbon dioxide, the leading gas linked to global warming.

http://www.chron.com/disp/
story.mpl/ap/fn/4744064.html

Local fishing advocates are split over whether a federal push to encourage fish farming in American waters would help recovering stocks or would be an environmental and navigational danger.

A bill in Congress would make it easier to start fish farms by creating a streamlined permitting process in federal waters, which stretch from 3 to 200 miles offshore, though it would allow the adjoining coastal state veto power over any proposal 12 miles or closer to its shores.

http://www.gloucestertimes.com/
punews/local_story_111115600

Charlie Alikatuktuk, a professional clam-diver from Qikiqtarjuaq, prepares to submerge beneath the sea ice. Global Warming 101 expedition members and students from the local school stand around to watch.

Although air temperatures around 20°F (-6°C) make the day relatively balmy for the Arctic in March and despite the fact that Charlie is wearing a dry-suit with long-underwear underneath, those standing around can’t help but feel a bit of dread at the thought of his impeding dive beneath the ice.

http://www.globalwarming101.com/
content/view/751/?53b11908