Is our fascination with all things Jaws getting in the way of good science?

Sara Brown

Money doesn’t grow on trees, but once upon a time it burrowed beneath the surface of brackish ponds.

Vanessa Czarnecki

No, there aren’t any vineyards on Martha’s Vineyard. Nor are there any wineries. Many a tourist’s hopes have been dashed upon discovering this is not the Napa of the East. Still, there are plenty of wild grapes.

Vanessa Czarnecki

In the summer, volunteers on the Vineyard visit beaches under the light of the moon to count horseshoe crabs as they come ashore to spawn.

Sara Brown

Inside the EPA’s mobile lab on Martha’s Vineyard.

Eight-legged, tiny, and hungry, every tick goes through life in search of blood.

Ivy Ashe

It was an otherwise quiet Vineyard night – the water calmly lapped the shore, the grasses rustled in a light breeze.

Katie Ruppel

A young gray seal – about three feet long and forty pounds – meandered its way around downtown Edgartown before New England Aquarium volunteers were able to guide it back to the sea.

Tom O'Hanlon

The Island is a welcome outpost for a multitude of migrating shorebirds, including six species that stay awhile to nest during the breeding season.

Lanny McDowell

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