Barbara Moran

Under the Trump administration, many entrepreneurs working on climate tech, renewable energy or environmental justice have found their grants delayed, threatened or rescinded. The federal headwinds threaten to slow Gov. Maura Healey's plans to make Massachusetts the global hub for climate tech.

Gov. Maura Healy wants to make Massachusetts the climate tech hub for the world. She says the emerging sector could bring tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in investment. But while the state excels at fostering innovation, some say it needs to do better at keeping companies in Massachusetts.

Piping plovers have made a remarkable recovery in Massachusetts. But the tiny, threatened shorebird is declining in other states, like Maryland and Virginia. Experts aren't quite sure why the disparity exists, but they suspect food abundance and habitat play a role. Climate change may alter both.

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.

Toxic algae has bloomed in more Cape Cod ponds than usual at this time of year, triggering advisories in Barnstable, Brewster and Orleans.

Local climate activists are on edge after people claiming to be FBI agents visited at least six at their homes on the same day in Greater Boston in March. Weeks later, the motivations behind these visits remain a mystery.

The director of the U.S. Geological Survey's New England Water Science Center said cuts to staff, leases and funding may make it "almost impossible" to collect critical water data. The center maintains hundreds of sensors and gauges that monitor ground and surface water, including drinking water supplies.

Butterflies are declining rapidly across the contiguous United States, including in Massachusetts. Research published in the journal Science found reductions in both species diversity and overall numbers.

Uncertainty lingers for many federally-funded climate, energy and environment projects in Massachusetts, as President Trump works to unwind some of the signature initiatives of the Biden era.

As the reality of a second Trump administration sank in, climate and environmental leaders described feeling anxiety, but pledged to keep up their efforts to combat climate change and protect the environment.