Art by Carmen Deñó
Every year for Earth Day, the New England News Collaborative stations produce a series of stories about climate change in our region. For our 2025 NENC Earth Day series, our journalists told stories about how warmer winters, wetter summers, and other impacts of climate change are affecting the region's flora and fauna. In past years, we’ve looked at how climate change is affecting the region’s food systems and housing. This year we’re looking at the costs of climate change. Many of the federal and state resources that used to make it cheaper to reduce our use of fossil fuels - like incentives for heat pumps and electric cars - have gone away. At the same time, the risks of climate change are more present than ever, with individuals and communities having to pay for repairs after damaging storms or droughts.
As we prepare our stories for this year’s series, we want to hear from you.
- Is climate change making it more expensive for you to run your business or live in your home?
- Have rising costs led you to change any of your personal actions related to climate change?
We’d also love to hear about anything you’re doing that reduces global warming emissions and saves you money at the same time. Send us an email or find us on Our New England on Instagram.
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Alexej Siren/CourtesyAs New England warms, snowshoe hares are increasingly finding themselves the wrong color for camouflaging with their environment. New England scientists are looking at some promising ways to help. -
Zoey Knox/NHPRCars and climate change have made life harder for key species that provide nutrients for creatures all around New England and sequester carbon in soil.
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If you’ve spent a lot of time outdoors in New England, you’ve likely crossed paths with, and probably stepped on, lichens. This mysterious indicator species plays an important role of the bottom of the food chain, and is also a habitat for other microorganisms. -
Researchers say they're seeing more of these colorful blobs growing on docks, but they're not the only invasive marine species that could be spreading along New England coasts. And climate change may be partly to blame. -
Researchers are checking deeper water to find the once-common bivalves, while mussel farmers use new methods to grow consistent crops. -
The invasive spongy moth, a destroyer of northeastern forests, has a natural foe in a Japanese fungus that needs certain weather conditions to activate. -
New England needs more housing — especially affordable housing. But what happens when the land picked for that housing is also valuable in the fight to slow climate change? -
Te compartimos cinco consejos para inquilinos y propietarios para reducir sus emisiones y combatir el cambio climático. -
With federal money and local support, Peterborough is hoping to electrify 200 heating systems in the next three years. They’re also trying to train more people to do that work.
