If New Englanders hope to address the climate crisis, more of us must upgrade our old oil boilers and gas furnaces to electric heat. Our buildings are responsible for nearly a third of all the carbon pollution overheating our planet.
Diving Cashes Ledge reveals a fantastic hotspot of biodiversity
This year’s international climate conference, COP29, reminds me why local action is so critical to cutting carbon pollution.
Project 2025, written as a blueprint for a new conservative administration, would eviscerate decades of hard-won environmental protections for the benefit of the wealthy few. The rest of us—and the country as a whole—would be much worse off because of it.
President-elect Donald Trump selected Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.
Boston’s MBTA is crumbling, underfunded, and unreliable, leaving riders stranded and disconnected. These three terrifying truths reveal the haunting reality of our aging transit system, calling for urgent action to secure funding and prevent further collapse.
People are still digging out in Florida and North Carolina after two powerful hurricanes, Helene and Milton, hit this month. Neighborhoods were flooded, trees and power lines were toppled, and rising rivers even swept away some homes. The devastation was so striking it would be easy to imagine everyone felt it equally. But the fact… Continue reading What Hurricanes Helene and Milton Reveal About Storm Inequity
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I thought I had found a climate haven for me and my family. After Helene, I realized that there is no haven for any of us.
There is no haven from climate change. Like a B-movie horror film, we might run from the boogieman to locales we think are safe, but the scale and magnitude of climate change are so great that, sooner or later, the boogieman will get us.
Our only recourse now is to take our heads out of the sand and work to do something about it.
