Climate change, lye and a possible solution near the Vineyard

A novel experiment to study ways to slow climate change that includes dumping thousands of pounds of sodium hydroxide, commonly referred to as lye, into waters about nine miles from Nomans Land has raised concerns among some regional environmental entities and local fishery groups. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, or WHOI, applied for two ocean dumping permits to test a climate change mitigation technique in an experiment never done before. One of the permits would approve a phase of the study to take place off the Island’s coast over five...