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Cape Cod, Massachusetts is a magnet for summer tourists, with beaches, bays, and ponds that draw millions of visitors from

around the world. But now that water and that tourist economy are in jeopardy. Decades of pollution

are destroying ecosystems and choking water with toxic algae.

For Science Quickly, I'm Rachel Feltman.

Today, we'll hear the first installment of a three-part podcast fascination from Science Quickly and WBUR.

Over the next three Fridays, environmental correspondent Barbara Moran will take us on a trip to Cape Cod

to show us where the pollution

is coming from and how communities are scrambling to clean it up. Today's segment is called

loved to death. So wait, so you're flipping through your phone. So what is that? That's your

place? So yes, this was back on June 16th.

It looks like somebody poured green paint all over your beach.

Yeah, I mean, it's just the stuff floats up at night and accumulates pushed by the wind.

Meet Andrew Gottlieb.

He runs a non-profit called Association to Preserve Cape Cod.

He lives by a pond in the town of Mashpee, in a home his family has owned for decades.

And he's showing me photos of his pond last summer, full of cyanobacteria, more commonly called toxic or blue-green algae.

There were other types of algae, too.

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