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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The Trump administration argues that rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule will help wildland firefighters. Fire researchers warn that more roads could exacerbate the problem. -
PosiGen laid off 78 people from its offices in Shelton, Danbury and Wethersfield on Sunday, Aug. 24. -
There have been more than a dozen great white shark sightings on Maine's coast so far this August. And for beachgoers, surfers and swimmers, it's a reminder that the ocean is something to be shared. -
Operators are proposing big changes for how they run three dams on the Connecticut River. -
The success of the rocky structure will be measured once temperatures drop. -
Connecticut officials are reacting with frustration to the Trump administration’s recent order to stop construction on Revolution Wind, an offshore wind farm project that was poised to soon provide electricity to at least 350,000 homes in Connecticut and Rhode Island. -
The Revolution Wind farm was slated to start sending power to homes and businesses in Rhode Island and Connecticut starting next year. -
The plan aims to double the pace of conservation, protecting 30 percent of the state’s land and water by 2030 and 40 percent by 2050. -
The ancient glacial and tectonic past surrounding a glacial drumlin in Amherst, Mass. will be brought to the present with new landform observatory. -
At Coonamessett Farm in East Falmouth, the pumpkin plants are suffering, because the irrigation system doesn't reach them, farmer Ron Smolowitz said.
