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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As eastern Massachusetts officials ask for more water from the Quabbin Reservoir in western Mass., the state's Interbasin Transfer Act stipulates applications need to spell out which communities will receiving the water, why they need it and whether other options been explored. At the moment says Mass. state Representative Aaron Saunders (D-Belchertown), those answers are not in the MWRA's application. -
A scientific-commercial partnership has sparked research to better understand the life and death of a North Shore export. -
This week the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would push back planned protections for the North Atlantic right whale by another seven years. -
An NPR investigation found that people in the U.S. are dying from heat much more often than official counts show. We explore the reasons why — and how lives can be saved. -
A new collection of automated sensors will help scientists get a never before seen picture of snowpack across the region, which researchers say will help them better predict floods. -
Norm L'Italien, owner of Pelletier's Campground in St. Francis, has outfitted and shuttled countless paddlers seeking adventure and solitude on one of Maine's most iconic rivers. -
Researchers at Martha's Vineyard Hospital hope to learn how alpha-gal syndrome develops after someone is bitten by a lone star tick. The study will examine over 300 residents from the island over the course of two years. -
2026 is on track to be another record-breaking year for bear incidents in Vermont. Would more hunting help? -
Connecticut will join neighboring New England states to host a regional policy summit on advanced nuclear technologies. -
Spotted lanternflies had already moved into parts of Northern Connecticut, but now they have reached the stage of their lifecycle when they can fly, suddenly making them more visible.
