Bad air and hot days: Summer camps grapple with climate change

Summer camps are all about embracing the outdoors. But as climate change fuels dangerous heat and unhealthy air, the outdoors is becoming something camps must protect children from.

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What palliative care can teach us about climate change

"The numbness or avoidance among many of us who care about the impact of Earth’s warming climate, is similar to the ambivalence and static grief that can take hold after a serious medical diagnosis," ...

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What climate hushers get all wrong

"There’s a thing out there called 'climate hushing' -- people arguing that Democrats should stop talking about climate change if they want to win elections," writes Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. "Whatever ...

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Bad air and hot days: Summer camps grapple with climate change

Summer camps are all about embracing the outdoors. But as climate change fuels dangerous heat and unhealthy air, the outdoors is becoming something camps must protect children from.

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Kickstart your journalism career: apply for WBUR's newsroom fellowships

WBUR offers three salaried, full-time, yearlong newsroom fellowships for early career journalists.

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A mixtape for oysters: Researchers test if sounds of home can help restore reefs

The New England coast used to be crowded with wild oyster reefs. But the reefs have been decimated by overfishing, pollution, development and climate change. Aran Mooney, who studies underwater acoust...

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A mixtape for oysters: Researchers test if sounds of home can help restore reefs

The New England coast used to be crowded with wild oyster reefs. But the reefs have been decimated by overfishing, pollution, development and climate change. Aran Mooney, who studies underwater acoust...

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Time to say our piece on feds’ flood-barrier plan - Dorchester Reporter

The most consequential public-works proposal to impact Dorchester’s coastline since Morrissey Boulevard was built in the 1920s is now before the public for review and comment.

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Recycling food waste is good for the climate, but could add microplastics to soil, study finds

Recycling food waste nationwide instead of tossing it into a landfill could dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to new research from the University of Vermont. But without changes to ...

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Proposed federal grant changes are alarming, illegal and 'bad for Boston,' say Mass. researchers and lawmakers

The Trump administration wants to make sweeping changes to the way federal grants are awarded and managed. Massachusetts researchers, public officials and scientific societies are pushing back, saying...

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Proposed federal grant changes are alarming, illegal and 'bad for Boston,' say Mass. researchers and lawmakers

The Trump administration wants to make sweeping changes to the way federal grants are awarded and managed. Massachusetts researchers, public officials and scientific societies are pushing back, saying...

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What one Mass. blueberry bush tells scientists about climate change

The bush has been growing here since the observatory’s founding in 1885, if not longer. For 141 years, without missing a season, observers at Blue Hill have recorded the date when the first berry ripe...

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Tiny forests are a growing trend in Mass. and beyond

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...

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Tiny forests are a growing trend in Mass. and beyond

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...

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Mass. bills would ban PFAS in food packaging, kids' toys and more

More than a dozen states already ban PFAS in some consumer products. Research has linked the toxic "forever chemicals" to health problems including kidney cancer. But some business groups warn the swe...

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Mass. bills would ban PFAS in food packaging, kids' toys and more

More than a dozen states already ban PFAS in some consumer products. Research has linked the toxic "forever chemicals" to health problems including kidney cancer. But some business groups warn the swe...

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The Department of the Interior canceled 4 wind farm leases. The particulars are problematic

Settlements between the government and industry can be a useful tool for implementing industrial policy and avoiding litigation. "But past government buyouts were undertaken with public debate, transp...

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I rode Elon Musk's Vegas Loop, the worst transit system on Earth

The Loop was supposed to transform Vegas. It's the dumbest transit system imaginable.

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How an energy efficiency program in Mass. became so politicized

Energy efficiency saves money. Why is Mass Save being blamed for rising bills in Massachusetts?

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Floating wetlands bring back Boston's natural landscape lost to development

Experts hope a new floating wetland project will bring back natural “edge habitat” that disappeared when developers reshaped Boston’s perimeter with landfill and seawalls. Recreating those destroyed c...

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Feds predict 'below normal' Atlantic hurricane season for 2026

Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association expect eight to 14 named storms to develop during the 2026 hurricane season, which begins on June 1. Up to three could become major hur...

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How an energy efficiency program in Mass. became so politicized

Energy efficiency saves money. Why is Mass Save being blamed for rising bills in Massachusetts?

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Feds predict 'below normal' Atlantic hurricane season for 2026

Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association expect eight to 14 named storms to develop during the 2026 hurricane season, which begins on June 1. Up to three could become major hur...

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Floating wetlands bring back Boston's natural landscape lost to development

Experts hope a new floating wetland project will bring back natural “edge habitat” that disappeared when developers reshaped Boston’s perimeter with landfill and seawalls. Recreating those destroyed c...

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A May scorcher: Boston sets heat record before noon

The thermometer ticked past 90 degrees at 11 a.m. Tuesday, making it the warmest May 19 on record. It was early enough that the city could break more records.

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Dartmouth researchers find rain in New England is consolidating into bigger storms amid climate change

The northeastern United States and southern Quebec are expected to see more rain due to climate change, but more of that rain will likely fall in large storms like the ones that have caused flooding i...

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Stories from a warming world

Join BU’s Center for Media Innovation & Social Impact for a special event featuring journalists, filmmakers, photographers, activists and scholars sharing intimate stories of survival, resilience, ide...

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