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A loon chick translocated from Flagstaff Lake spreads her wings and looks out onto Assawompset Pond in Massachusetts, her new home. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

06:09Nov 17, 2020

To Bring Loons Back To Mass., Biologists Must Convince The Birds This Is Home

Inside the ambitious multi-state effort to restore common loons to their historic range.

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A Boston Park Rises With The Tide

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A CoastSnap phone cradle on Town Neck Beach in Sandwich. (Courtesy Stephanie Murphy/Woods Hole Sea Grant)

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Climate Change And Health

Patient Steve Kearns describes his experience after contracting West Nile Virus during a follow up appointment at CHA Somerville Hospital. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Teaching Doctors In Training To Connect Climate Change And Health Care

04:24Sep 25, 2020

Morning traffic heading north on I-93 in Dorchester. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Study Finds Significant Racial Disparities In Vehicular Air Pollution Exposure Around Boston

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An elderly man rests on a bench in the Boston Public Garden. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

First, A Pandemic. Now, The Heat. Why This Summer Poses Extra Risks For Older Adults

05:20Jul 17, 2020

Some experts believe pandemics like the coronavirus are made worse as climate change effects increase. Climate change protesters demonstrate outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London back in February. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)

Climate Change Worsens Effects Of Global Outbreaks Like Coronavirus, Expert Says

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Building Solutions

Gas streetlamps on Temple Street in the early evening. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Beacon Hill's Iconic Gas Lamps Are Going Green

05:35Oct 27, 2020

On this site in Roxbury, developers are planning to build a five-story, mixed-use building out of a "revolutionary" type of timber. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

In A First, Boston Building Will Be Constructed With 'Revolutionary' Timber

06:05Jul 21, 2020

Finch Cambridge is a 98-unit affordable housing development being built to "passive house" standards for energy efficiency. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Cambridge's 'Passive House' Is Built With Focus On Affordable Housing, Climate Change

07:20Dec 13, 2019

A Gap Mountain Drilling truck at work in Brookline, Mass. (Bruce Gellerman/WBUR)

How A Climate Change Nonprofit Got Eversource Thinking About A Geothermal Future

07:34Jan 13, 2020

Series: The Nuclear Option

The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

To Combat Climate Change, Do We Need The Nuclear Option?

07:31Sep 17, 2019

Floating nuclear power plant 'Akademik Lomonosov' is towed out of the St. Petersburg, Russia shipyard where it was constructed in St. Petersburg, Russia. (Dmitri Lovetsky/AP)

Big Plans For Small Nuclear Plants

08:41Sep 18, 2019

Martin Greenwald demonstrates how you can use a magnetic fields to contain and insulate a hot fusion plasma. Here the magnet pushes the bright plasma away from the wall of the glass tube. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

For Green Energy, MIT Aims To Build 'A Star On Earth'

07:09Sep 19, 2019

Series: Closing Pilgrim

In this photo, circa 1971, the 525-ton, 65-foot-tall reactor vessel arrives by boat at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station. (Courtesy U.S. Department of Energy)

Timeline: The 52-Year History Of The Pilgrim Nuclear Plant

08:30May 29, 2019

Spent fuel casks at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Pilgrim Is Closing. So Then What Happens To The Radioactive Waste?

06:45May 30, 2019

Entergy's Chiltonville Training Center is an identical twin mock-up of the control room at the Pilgrim nuclear power plant. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

In An Identical Simulator, Pilgrim Operators Prep For Shutdown

07:25May 31, 2019

You Asked, We Answered: Questions About The Pilgrim Shutdown

May 28, 2019

The discharge canal at Pilgrim, where water used for cooling at the plant is released back into Cape Cod Bay. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

For 46 Years, Pilgrim Nuclear Plant Has Used Water From Cape Cod Bay. How Has It Impacted The Ecosystem?

07:24Apr 22, 2019

Signs warn of radiation and restrict access to working areas above the reactor at Pilgrim. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

As Pilgrim Powers Down, Some Worry It Will Leave Behind Too Much Radiation

05:35Apr 25, 2019

The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station, in the town of Vernon, is seen in a 2013 file photo. (Toby Talbot/AP)

This Vermont Town Took A Big Hit When Its Nuclear Plant Closed

09:55Apr 23, 2019

Historic Plymouth Looks To A Future Without Pilgrim

10:11Apr 24, 2019

More Environmental Coverage from WBUR

The Weymouth Natural Gas Compressor Station, photographed on Sept. 13. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Feds Give Weymouth Compressor Station Approval To Start Up

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration signed off Wednesday, saying that the company sufficiently corrected any issues behind two emergency shutdowns this fall.

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AG To Regulators: Order National Grid To Hire New Auditor

In a letter to the state’s top utility regulator Monday, the AG’s office said any report produced by the audit firm FTI Consulting for National Grid would be “issued under...

MIT's Ernie Moniz Is On Biden's Short List For Energy Secretary — Thrilling Energy Wonks But Disappointing Progressives

Moniz is respected by many in the energy world, but he's not without his critics in the progressive environmental movement.

06:21Nov 23, 2020

Efforts To Genetically Engineer American Chestnut Trees Draw Controversy

The majestic American chestnut was once common in forests in the eastern U.S., but a blight has killed billions of these giant trees.

Did Portland's Use Of Tear Gas During Protests Harm The Environment?

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Study Points To Greater Gas Price Impacts From Transpo Pact

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Here & Now

04:16Nov 18, 2020

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh speaks at a morning press conference at City Hall in Boston on Sept. 30, 2020. (Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Walsh Promises To Continue Bold Climate Action As New Chair Of National Climate Mayors Group

"Climate action is the best investment that we can make in our cities and the future of our cities," Walsh says.

Nov 18, 2020