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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How do trees know when to drop their leaves? Why are the colors more vivid in some places or in different seasons? -
A lynx stretching in the sun, tadpoles swimming beneath lily pads and an investigator dusting a tusk for prints are among the winning images from the newest Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards. -
As the offshore wind debate continues to ramp up in Maine, the climate desk takes inventory of what we know so far — and gets a glimpse into the future down in Martha's Vineyard. -
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has cut back on how often it will meet with a citizens group to discuss the cleanup of the Housatonic River, which General Electric contaminated with PCBs decades ago. -
The DEEP Climate Resilience Fund (DCRF) is one response seeking to prepare Connecticut communities for more impacts of climate change. For the second time, the agency is looking to fund and assist municipalities to develop resilience projects, and apply for applications for federal funding. -
Most studies looking at large-scale environmental changes analyze one shift at a time. But UNH researchers looked at two effects of burning fossil fuels: soil warming up and nitrogen levels rising. -
The program, run by researchers from Dartmouth and the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, allows students to test their water for arsenic. It has already increased testing in several towns. -
Allison McChord says the land was originally slated for luxury housing, but she believes it's better used as a public space and a wildlife habitat. -
The proposed regulations are intended to protect valuable farmland but solar power developers worry it will set back Maine's clean energy goals. -
Michael Moore has spent decades studying critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. But the veterinarian, author, and scientist emeritus from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution had never seen an offshore wind farm up close — until last week.
