It's Been A Minute with Sam Sanders

Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) map of Haverhill from the 1930s. Areas colored red were considered high risk for mortgage lenders. (Courtesy of Mapping Inequality)

04:54Mar 5, 2021

Mapping Project Explores Links Between Historic Redlining And Future Climate Vulnerability

Historic segregation practices may make people more vulnerable to the extreme heat and flooding arriving with climate change

Recent Stories from Earthwhile

A black-capped chickadee flies away from a bird feeder after eating at the Audubon Boston Nature Center in Mattapan. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Mass Audubon Confronts Legacy Of Its Namesake As Nation Reckons With Race

04:36Feb 26, 2021

With a snow storm coming a Cambridge Works truck fills up with brine from the tanks at the brine mixing station at Danehy Park. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Road Salt Is A Problem For Rivers. Adding Water May Be A Solution

04:22Mar 2, 2021

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)

MIT Spinoff To Build Commercial Fusion Energy Campus In Devens

Mar 3, 2021

A honey bee on the hand of beekeeper Mike Tyler of the Plymouth Beekeepers Association at the Marshfield Fair. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Mass. Pesticide Limitation Seen As Victory In Bee Protection Movement

Mar 5, 2021

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

Jul 23, 2020

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

05:37Apr 22, 2020

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

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

Speaker Ronald Mariano addressed his colleagues after being elected leader of the House. (Sam Doran/SHNS)

Getting To Know State House Speaker Ron Mariano, And His Legislative Agenda

We catch up with Rep. Ron Mariano, the new Massachusetts Speaker of the House, to talk about a the state's handling of the pandemic, ongoing negotiations over a wide-ranging climate...

Radio Boston

11:18Mar 4, 2021

An African black leopard featured in "The Black Leopard: My Quest to Photograph One of Africa’s Most Elusive Big Cats." (Will Burrard-Lucas)

One Photographer's Pursuit To Capture Pictures Of The Elusive African Black Leopard

Photographer Will Burrard-Lucas' new book features photographs from his expedition to Kenya in 2019.

Here & Now

06:01Mar 4, 2021

Matt Ayres programs a sound recorder that will remotely record migratory songbirds during mud season this spring. (Annie Ropeik/NHPR)

Listening To The Forest For Clues About Climate Change

At the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in northern New Hampshire, scientists are finding ways to adapt to the pandemic.

Here & Now

05:45Mar 1, 2021

How At-Risk Communities Are Building Fire Safer Neighborhoods

More than 6 million U.S. homes are at significant risk from wildfires. For the most part, it's up to residents to do the work to protect their homes.

Here & Now

05:12Mar 1, 2021

Workers from Western Mass Electric repair downed powerlines in Marshfield. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

In Wake of Texas Crisis, Advocates Say State Must Require Utilities Prepare For Climate Change

Utilities need to study and prepare for the long-term impacts of climate change and extreme weather, the Conservation Law Foundation says

Mar 1, 2021

Colorado Gives Free E-Bikes To Essential Workers

The e-bikes are an early attempt to get people out of their cars and help lower-income Coloradans.

Here & Now

02:35Feb 25, 2021

A view of a picked field after yellow onions were harvested in 2007 in Rio Grande City, Texas. (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

'It's Going To Impact Thousands Of Jobs': Winter Freeze Devastates Farmers In Texas

Texas International Produce Association's president says initial estimates show 80-95% of the state's leafy greens are now gone.

Here & Now

05:27Feb 24, 2021

The location of the proposed electrical substation in East Boston (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

In A Blow To Environmental Justice Advocates, State Regulators Approve Controversial East Boston Substation

The unanimous vote came at the end of almost 20 hours of public meetings during which several high-profile elected officials, and more than 50 members of the public, pleaded with...

Feb 22, 2021

Lessons New England Can Learn From The Texas Power Grid Failure

We size up what happened in Texas, and take listener calls about our own energy grid.

Radio Boston

16:35Feb 22, 2021

The largest waterfall on the entire New River is Sandstone Falls. (Gary Hart)

West Virginia's New River Gorge Is The Country's Newest National Park

The designation was included in the $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and spending bill passed in December.

Here & Now

04:45Feb 22, 2021