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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Around Massachusetts, communities are planting a wilderness-worth of trees into tiny areas according to the Miyawaki method. Devotees say it turbocharges biodiversity and brings environmental benefits, such as enriching soil, cooling summer heat and soaking up carbon emissions that contribute to climate change. -
It’s been a year since the Environmental Protection Agency terminated $20 million dollars in infrastructure grants for Springfield. Now, the city is joining others across the country in filing an appeal challenging the cancellations. -
What do manta rays and lobstermen have in common? Both are on the agenda for the new Shared Seas Lab, which studies how to balance demand for ocean resources. -
Resorts across the state reported more than 2.2 million visits over the 2025-2026 winter, according to Ski NH. -
Martha’s Vinyard is installing food waste recyclers at public schools and trash drop-offs to turn residential food waste into a compost-like nutrient rich soil amendment. -
Scientists with the Nature Conservancy and Forest Service have been raising American elms that are bred to be resistant to Dutch elm disease at two sites in Vermont. Now, they’re injecting them with the fungus to see what happens. -
The short river in York County is one of the most heavily-dammed waterways in Maine that doesn't have any fish passage. -
As seals return to the waters off the Cape and Islands, white sharks aren’t far behind. And, it turns out, they aren’t the only seal-hunting sharks in our waters. -
A segment of the Lincoln Woods hiking trail from the Kancamagus Highway to the junction of the Osseo Trail will be closed from June 15 to November to repair and stabilize the riverbank nearby, according to the White Mountain National Forest Service. -
Energy efficiency saves money. Why is Mass Save being blamed for rising bills in Massachusetts?
