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A sunny August morning at the Urban Farming Institute's Clark Farm in Mattapan. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

06:56Aug 7, 2020

A Small Mattapan Farm Blooms, Despite The Pandemic

The Urban Farming Institute in Mattapan is adapting to the pandemic, and helping fight food insecurity.

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A fisherman casts his fishing line out into the Cape Cod Canal in Sandwich. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Grants To Help Ensure Health Of Massachusetts Bays

Aug 1, 2020

Brianna O'Brien, from Hampton Falls, N.H., protests at the Climate Strike in City Hall Plaza. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Advocates Celebrate As Legislature Gets One Step Closer To Passing Environmental Justice Law

06:31Aug 3, 2020

In this Aug. 11, 2016, file photo, a great white shark tries to bite a fish head being trolled though the water as researchers chum the ocean looking for sharks off the coast of South Africa. Seals are thriving off the northeast U.S. coast thanks to decades of protections. That victory for wildlife has brought a consequence for humans: more encounters with sharks. (Schalk van Zuydam/AP File)

More Seals Means Learning To Live With Sharks In New England

Jul 30, 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

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

Housing on Clark Avenue in Chelsea. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

EPA Agrees To Monitor Chelsea Air Quality

Federal and state agencies will monitor particulate matter emissions and overall air quality.

Aug 7, 2020

Diesel Vehicle Caused Apple Fire In Southern California, Officials Say

Officials say the fire, which forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes, was caused by a diesel vehicle.

Here & Now

04:55Aug 4, 2020

Isaias Plows Its Way Up Mid-Atlantic Coast

Tropical storm Isaias made landfall late Monday night in North Carolina before turning into a Category 1 hurricane.

Here & Now

03:33Aug 4, 2020

Beachgoers enjoy a hot day along the Atlantic Ocean, Saturday, July 18, 2020, in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. (Julio Cortez/AP)

A Marine Heatwave Is Warming Up The Ocean Along The East Coast

It's part of a trend of warming ocean temperatures in the region over the past few years.

Here & Now

05:45Aug 3, 2020

Demonstrators protest President Donald Trump's decision to exit the Paris climate change accord on June 2, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Putting A Price On Carbon: It Was Hot, Now It's Not

It's fair to ask why the machinery of the neoliberal economic system, under which climate change has metastasized, would now be trusted to contain it, writes Frederick Hewett.

Cognoscenti

Aug 3, 2020

A view of Lawrence on the Merrimack River. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Mass. House Passes Bill That Would Alert People When There's Sewage In The River

Combined sewer overflows (CSOs) discharge billions of gallons of sewage into Massachusetts rivers each year

Jul 31, 2020

Mass. House Drops Major Climate Bill Into Busy Week

It's the fourth major bill that representatives have been asked to take up in rapid succession, following on the heels of policing accountability, eonomic development and health care bills moving...

Jul 29, 2020

Steam billows from the coal-fired Merrimack Station in Bow, N.H. (Jim Cole/AP)

Regional Emissions Pact Has Big Health Benefits For Kids, Study Finds

A new study estimated RGGI has prevented hundreds of childhood illnesses and saved hundreds of millions of dollars.

Jul 29, 2020

Several industrial sites are located on the Chelsea Creek. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Q&A With Rishi Reddi, The State's Top Environmental Justice Leader

Rishi Reddi talks about her goals for the office, rectifying past environmental justices and even fiction writing.

Jul 29, 2020

Protesters hold signs during a rally and protest by government workers and concerned citizens at Post Office Square near the Federal building, headquarters for the EPA and IRS in Boston, on Friday, Jan. 11, 2019. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images)

'Climate Change Has A Cost': The Trump Administration's Environmental Rollbacks During COVID-19

The Trump administration has been rolling back long-standing environmental regulations on water, air and climate change.

Here & Now

09:46Jul 28, 2020