Bianca Garcia is the 2026 climate and environment reporting fellow.
Bianca is passionate about bringing big science ideas into people's back yards. Bonus points for food stories, or really anything that meshes climate, health, and culture. Her prior work has appeared in Slate, STAT, Maine Public Radio, and North Carolina Public Radio, where she was a 2025 AAAS Mass Media Fellow.
She studied Medical Anthropology at Cornell University and has a master's in Media, Medicine, and Health from Harvard Medical School. She fell in love with audio through the radio and podcasting program at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.
Catch her daydreaming about new running routes, knitting, and what she'll cook for dinner.
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Floating wetlands bring back Boston's natural landscape lost to development
Experts hope a new floating wetland project will bring back natural “edge habitat” that disappeared when developers reshaped Boston’s perimeter with landfill and seawalls. Recreating those destroyed coastal environments can...
How rural Mass. towns are saving green by going green
New England has some of the highest energy costs in the country. Cold winters, along with other rising expenses, have rural towns looking for ways to save money. Many have...
Opposition to data centers grows in Mass. cities and towns
The ballooning use of artificial intelligence and cloud-based computing is fueling a rise in data centers — which store and process all the information needed to power these systems. Massachusetts...
Boston joins third national 'No Kings' protest
Thousands of people gathered in downtown Boston for the third 'No Kings' rally, according to organizers, joining millions of demonstrators who fanned out across the country.
Boston celebrates the 250th anniversary of Evacuation Day
Spectators wore red, white and blue Tuesday as Boston commemorated the 250th anniversary of Evacuation Day. They wore a little green, too, because it was also St. Patrick's Day.
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Winter is peak oyster time. Deep freezes this season took a toll in Mass.
Ice has destroyed thousands of dollars worth of gear and dragged oysters out to sea as it melts. For some farmers, the losses from this winter will likely be felt...
10 years after PFAS discovery, a new podcast looks at a New Hampshire town's search for answers
In the town of Merrimack, the PFAS levels turned out to be so severe that some residents still rely on bottled water 10 years later. Their fight for answers is...
The steak of the future may be growing in a Woburn office park
Cultivated meat has been promised as a solution to the climate impacts of the meat industry for over a decade. The industry has had a few false starts, and thus...
Oldest known whale song recordings discovered in Cape Cod archives
The files, found on a bygone piece of audio recording equipment, may give scientists new evidence about how humans have changed the ocean.
Study: Wood smoke makes up more than third of Boston's air pollution in the winter
Researchers at Northwestern University released a study that found far more wood smoke from rural areas gets blown into cities during the winter than previously believed, where it poses significant...