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The Bellamy reservoir, seen here in Madbury, New Hampshire, recently, supplies drinking water to Portsmouth and has been depleted by months of drought. (Courtesy Shawn St. Hilaire)

As Climate Change Drives Droughts, Water Conservation And Infrastructure Are Key

Despite some recent rain, New England's severe drought is persisting, causing wells to run dry across states like New Hampshire and a warming climate could make future droughts more likely.

05:52Oct 16, 2020

Recent Stories from Earthwhile

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

The Controversial Natural Gas Compressor In Weymouth, Explained

Oct 13, 2020

Andrea Nyamekye (left) is the co-director of Neighbor to Neighbor. Dania Halak is a freshman an Amherst College and a Field Director with Our Climate. (Courtesy of Nyamekye and Halak)

'I Feel Like I Have Already Lost A Home': Young Environmentalists On Why They're Fighting For Change

08:11Sep 24, 2020

Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the third day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on October 14, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

Amy Coney Barrett's Nomination Is Backed By Dark Money. So Is Her Refusal To Acknowledge Basic Climate Science

Cognoscenti

Oct 16, 2020

The West Branch of the Housatonic River on Mill Street in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, after an old dam was removed in the spring of 2020. (Nancy Eve Cohen/NEPM)

A Dam Removal Reunites A Mass. Neighborhood With The Housatonic River

05:34Sep 30, 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

A view of ISO New England’s control room in Holyoke. The massive digital display is a real-time image of the region’s power grid. (Courtesy of ISO New England)

Governors Demand Changes From New England Power Grid Operator

To help meet emission reduction targets, five New England governors call for changes to the regional electricity market

Oct 16, 2020

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

Mass. Lost Ground On Emissions Reductions In 2018, New Report Says

Baker administration officials assigned the shift to greater transportation fuel use and increasing heating fuel usage in 2018.

Oct 15, 2020

Firefighting Technology Gets Tested In California

This has been a record-breaking wildfire season in the West. Authorities in California are testing a new fire-modeling technology to help in the fight.

Here & Now

03:45Oct 15, 2020

Immigrant Workers Economically Devastated By Wine Country Wildfires

The wildfires have dealt a big financial blow to immigrant workers in Northern California in the agriculture and hospitality industries.

Here & Now

03:02Oct 14, 2020

Plastic and other garbage polluting in the Adriatic Sea. (Andrey Nekrasov/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

COVID-19 Pandemic Has Led To More Ocean Plastic Pollution

Dave Ford, founder of SoulBuffalo, explains how the coronavirus has worsened the amount of plastic polluting the world's oceans.

Here & Now

05:35Oct 12, 2020

The Intersection — And Sometimes Collision — Of The Grizzly Bear And Human Worlds

Author Bryce Andrews details what more we should do so humans and grizzly bears can live in harmony.

Here & Now

09:50Oct 12, 2020

Another Hurricane Puts Gulf Coast At Risk

Some weakening is forecast once Hurricane Delta approaches the northern Gulf Coast on Friday.

Here & Now

03:30Oct 8, 2020

The Sebago Lake ice fishing derby on Feb. 14, 2015. (Gabe Souza/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

A Farewell To Ice Fishing? Climate Change Leads To Less Lake Ice

The study examined 80 years of data from 122 lakes worldwide and found that ice-free winters among them more than tripled since 1978.

Oct 8, 2020

A crew from the East Middlesex Mosquito Control Project spray to control mosquitos from a pick-up truck on July 8, 2020, while driving through a neighborhood in Burlington, Mass. Officials are preparing for another summer with a high number of cases of eastern equine encephalitis. (Charles Krupa/AP)

Should We Stop Spraying For Mosquitos During The Pandemic?

We should question using pesticides that may compromise the human respiratory system during the pandemic, writes Kyla Bennett. In the long term, we should shift to prevention.

Cognoscenti

Oct 7, 2020

The Boston area ranks sixth for gridlock-plagued commutes in 2014. Here's morning traffic on Route 1 into Boston in February. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Study Finds Regional Pact To Reduce Transportation Pollution Could Yield Major Health Benefits

The most aggressive version of TCI could avoid about 1100 deaths, nearly 5000 asthma cases, and save $11.1 billion in heath costs

Oct 6, 2020