The Ambler Road would give mining companies access to a vast trove of untapped copper, cobalt and rare-earth minerals, but environmental groups and some Alaska Natives oppose the project.
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The slowly rising numbers come after a decade of population declines. But threats including entanglement in fishing gear, climate change and low birth rates still loom over efforts to save...
The torpedo-shaped glider — named “Redwing” — will measure water depth, temperature and salinity, and send data back to Massachusetts scientists in near-real time. It will also carry a device...
One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers...
Parts of central and western Massachusetts and all of of Nantucket are in a critical drought, according to data released Friday.
Chelsea is an industrial hub for the region and has a troubled highway overpass that cuts through it. But there's a real cost. Chelsea residents have been fighting to improve...
The recent revival of interest in nuclear power among Massachusetts policymakers comes as the offshore wind industry that Democrats here have long promised is both floundering and out of favor...
Granite Shore Power, the company that owns the coal plant in Bow, New Hampshire, said they ceased commercial operations Sept. 12, about a year and a half after they announced...
In Massachusetts, $466 million in grants to support more than two dozen projects are being rescinded, according to Gov. Maura Healey's office.
