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This article previously appeared in Cambridge Day. From Boston’s Museum of Science to the Watertown Dam, the Charles River this spring was rife with river herring swirling in the water like scores of baby sharks. Near the dam, dozens of the aptly named herring gulls perched on ro

When Antonio Machado Allison assisted with earthquake response efforts in Venezuela’s capital of Caracas in 1967, he felt confident in the way the government mobilized its teams. When he arrived, Allison described immediately seeing a plethora of state agencies onsite organizing

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by producer Aynsley O’Neill with UC Boulder senior research scientist Ted Scambos.  Midsummer in the Northern Hemisphere marks the dead of winter in Antarctica, usually a time

The global rush to mine copper, lithium, cobalt and other so-called critical minerals has been framed by the mining industry as essential for addressing climate change. But a report released Tuesday says that much of the demand fueling today’s mining boom comes from elsewhere.  T

In the first quarter of this year, heat pump sales beat fossil fuel furnaces by 32 percent. Here's what makes the appliance so powerful.

It’s shaping up to be another hot Florida summer. Among the most vulnerable are those with the least resources for dealing with the heat: underserved communities and communities of color, who often are excluded from environmental and climate protections.  That includes the state’

The Trump administration is moving to approve a controversial program in Alabama that could allow millions of tons of toxic coal ash to remain buried in place alongside the state’s rivers, even though much of that material is sitting in groundwater where it can leach into the env

Norway, Denmark, Iceland, the United Kingdom, the European Union and Russia all share the world’s largest and most lucrative Atlantic mackerel supply, an industry valued at more than $1 billion annually. But they can’t agree on who gets what slice of the pie. In the midst of the

Small-scale solar microgrids for Appalachian communities could help keep communities warm and fed during future blackouts.

On a stretch of former farmland near the eastern edge of the Everglades, about 1,250 feet from a two-year-old elementary school, one of the region’s largest artificial-intelligence data centers could rise. On July 15, Palm Beach County commissioners will take a final vote on Proj

Most emergency alerts and warnings are not provided in languages spoken by Indigenous peoples, placing them at greater risk during fires, floods, and other disasters.

The world’s largest meat company is backing away from its climate and deforestation commitments after claiming for several years that reducing its greenhouse gas emissions was a key goal. In its recent annual sustainability report, released last week, JBS dropped its ambitious co

Forever War: This is part of a series about the PFAS crisis in North Carolina. CUMBERLAND COUNTY, N.C.—Mike Watters was running on two hours of sleep and one cup of coffee as he drove home to Grays Creek from the federal courthouse in Raleigh. Watters is among 2,658 plaintiffs su

BESSEMER, Ala.—After months of resistance, officials in a historic suburb of Birmingham have released a non-disclosure agreement between city leaders and developers of a hyperscale data center. The release of the agreement came after environmental groups threatened to sue Besseme

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, through a filing submitted by her newly appointed chief energy officer, is urging regulators at the State Corporation Commission to assign costs of transmission projects driven by data center needs to those facilities.  The governor’s involvement