The impacts of climate change and environmental concerns are shared across our region, but when it comes to addressing those issues, the New England states can have strikingly different policies. We tell stories on these topics every day and work together on special series.
In the summer of 2023, we looked at the impacts of extreme weather in our series Beyond Normal. And each year around Earth Day, we present a series of regional climate change stories with a different theme. For our 2024 series, we looked at how climate change is impacting our homes.
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Local businesses are hurting — or helping — with the “bad luck” of 13 rainy weekends in the Boston area. -
After two years of sluggish environmental legislative action, state lawmakers in 2025 passed several big initiatives on climate change. -
A CDC-funded research center based at UMass Amherst is looking for natural alternatives to chemical tick repellants, and they believe a substance produced by donkey glands might offer one. -
Block Island's seal population has climbed to over 1,000 and entanglements with marine debris are surging as a result. -
The region has the highest rate of Lyme disease in the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. -
Offices housing the U.S. Geological Survey's New England Water Science Center and the regional headquarters of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will not close at the end of the summer. The agencies still face steep budget cuts under the Trump administration's budget proposal. -
Environmental stressors in 2023 like flooding and air pollution have negatively impacted this year's strawberry crop in Connecticut. -
Toxic algae has bloomed in more Cape Cod ponds than usual at this time of year, triggering advisories in Barnstable, Brewster and Orleans. -
More than 200 wildfires are raging across Canada, sending a thick blanket of choking smoke through the U.S. Midwest. Experts says climate change means U.S. residents better get used to it. -
In the back woods of Industry, Maine, an intimate gathering was held to honor the life of Mark Ancker. While the ceremony marked the end of Ancker’s 77 years on earth, it also marked the start of something new. The mushroom casket he was buried in — unlike the wood and concrete used in traditional burials — is designed to provide nutrients to the surrounding soil.
