She recently returned from a year-long research fellowship studying climate change in Vanuatu.© 2020 The Provincetown Independent, all rights reserved.Dedicated to building a locally owned newspaper for Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet, and EasthamOur nonprofit Local Journalism Project supports aspiring journalists, special reporting, and educational events.But the team behind the project say that they intentionally sought an outsider audience, gearing it to readers who visit Cape Cod only during the summer and leave their worries behind at the Sagamore and Bourne bridges.To follow up on the report and spur action on its findings, the newspaper sponsored a conference of journalists, climate scientists, and civic leaders on Oct. 22 in Boston. Sandra Bolton, who has lived next to the pond for 15 years, went swimming every year until two years ago.BARNSTABLE — Fifteen years ago, when Sandra Bolton and her husband bought their three-bedroom Cape overlooking the serene waters of Shubael Pond, their view was like “heaven on Earth,” she said. Research has also linked cyanobacteria to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and ALS.“There are big health concerns,” said Jim Haney, a professor of biology at the University of New Hampshire’s Center for Freshwater Biology, who said toxins can be passed from fish that ingest the bacteria to other species that eat them.On Cape Cod, which has an usually high number of kettle ponds because of the way glaciers receded here, local officials have been finding more dangerous algae blooms.Tanya Mogardo played with her son, Landon, 2, in a swimming pool set up in the yard of her grandparents, Sandra and Bill Bolton, across the street from Shubael Pond.Three years ago, as reports of the algae increased, the Association to Preserve Cape Cod began collecting water samples from dozens of ponds.Last year, of 35 ponds sampled, the group found high enough levels of cyanobacteria that they issued use restrictions at 11 of them — the highest number since they began monitoring ponds.So far this year, the association has issued advisories at six ponds, closing four of them. “We’re looking at present and future in the same photo. “We used to live in our bathing suits.”Mats of algae have spread on Santuit Pond nearly every summer for the past five years, making the water unsafe for swimming in late summer.As the sun set on a recent evening, Harway and her husband walked toward a small beach, where small knots of green algae drifted just below the surface. He conducted interviews from May to September for the project. Cape Cod Canada Skiing Events: Arts Food ... Massachusetts planned to address climate change in 2020. The Cape Cod Climate Change Collaborative was established in 2016 to help mitigate the climate crisis and mobilize Cape Cod and the Islands to move toward net zero. “Clearly those are places that we shouldn’t be rebuilding,” she said. “It’s just depressing.” Boston University Professor Cutler Cleveland pointed out that climate justice was not addressed until the very end of the event.“The poor and people of color are disproportionately impacted [by climate change],” said Cleveland. “We’re looking at present and future in the same photo. “We’re on the cutting edge, the front line of climate change, and we have opportunities to change how people react to that.” The Globe spent several months this summer criss-crossing Cape Cod to learn how the effects of climate change are being felt, and what it would mean for the future of the area.
“The rate at which they were warming was already high.”While runoff from increased development on the Cape has exacerbated the problem by adding nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorous into ponds, Fox has found significant algae blooms on parts of the Cape where there hasn’t been any development, such as in ponds at Nickerson State Park in Brewster and Gull Pond in Wellfleet.“This leads us to think the blooms are more related to the warming temperatures,” she said.At Santuit Pond in Mashpee, where the scourge of algae has extended past Thanksgiving in recent years, local officials have been using solar-paneled devices to stir up the sediment on the pond’s bottom to boost oxygen and curb the blooms. Orlando Barria for The Boston Globe ... To the millions of us who visit Cape Cod once or twice a summer, the effects of climate change can seem subtle, if we see them at all: A breach in the dunes. “It’s getting worse.”Shubael Pond is one of 996 small lakes on Cape Cod, freshwater jewels that offer an alternative to the increasingly shark-infested saltwater on the coast.
And in the winters, it doesn’t freeze over as often.“I put my dock in the water in February this year, because there was no ice,” he said. Building off the work of Climate Ready Boston, the city’s climate-change preparedness initiative, the Boston Planning and Development Agency created design guidelines to help homeowners and developers make their properties more flood-resistant.
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