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A sign reads "caution: cyanobacteria alert" on the shore of a pond
Melody Bodette
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Vermont Public
The Vermont Department of Health recently released data from the state's first registry for the disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS. Some reports have linked cyanobacteria algae blooms in lake and ponds to the disease, but some health officials caution against those studies.
A group of people on a boat look up at an offshore wind turbine in the ocean. Some of the people are holding microphones or cameras. The turbine is one base cylinder with three blades that rotate as the wind hits them.
David Lawlor
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Rhode Island PBS
Journalists from the New England News Collaborative had a rare chance to see Vineyard Wind, the nation's largest standing offshore wind project.