Environment
Can Feces Save A Species? Boston Has The World’s Largest Collection Of Right Whale Poop
The Marine Stress and Ocean Health Lab at the New England Aquarium looks like your typical laboratory. It’s full of humming and whirring machines, beakers and test tubes, digital scales and centrifuges.
Read MoreAtlantic Lobster Board Moves Toward Reducing Rope In Effort To Save Right Whales
A consortium of Atlantic states fisheries managers is calling for broad changes to the gear lobstermen use, in an effort to reduce risks posed to the endangered North Atlantic right whale and to ward off potential federal action that could be even more challenging for the industry.
Read MoreAs Feds Weaken Wetlands Rules, Locals Eye Greater Protections For Otter Creek Swamps
The state’s largest wetlands area stretches 15 miles along the Otter Creek in Addison and Rutland counties. Local groups have started talking to the state about how to provide greater protection for the Otter Creek wetlands, as the Trump administration seeks to roll back national wetland protection rules.
Read MoreWhat Are The Secrets Of Connecticut’s Bobcats?
Inside a lab in northwest Connecticut is a bobcat. Its bright eyes and black-tufted ears are separated from me only by the metal grill of a large carrier. She’s sleepy, but waking up.
Read MoreFederal Shutdown Halts Some Environmental Conservation Efforts, Slows Others
Federal researchers in western Massachusetts study ways to protect migrating fish, backyard birds and urban trees. The government shutdown is keeping them home and away from their research.
Read MoreAt Harvard, The Divinity Tree Stands Between Eco-Driven Arguments
Andover Hall is the heart — and soul — of Harvard Divinity School.
Read MoreAn Auction For Wind Lots Off The Massachusetts Shore Breaks Records
A wind power auction for three plots of ocean off of the coast of Massachusetts broke a record last week for the highest price ever paid in a U.S. wind lease auction.
Read MoreWhy This Invasive Plant Has A Shot At Some Redemption
Robert Buchsbaum walks into a salt marsh on Boston’s North Shore. Around him towers a stand of bushy-topped Phragmites australis, an invasive plant commonly known as the common reed. Or, as some call it: the all-too-common reed.
Read More5 Takeaways For New England From The U.S. Climate Report
Climate change will hit the Northeast hard and soon, bringing threats to our health — and to fruit crops, ski resorts and the Atlantic cod.
Read MoreThe Last Chocolate Turkeys: New Hampshire Farmer Ends Effort To Sustain Endangered Breed
A farmer in Loudon, New Hampshire is calling it quits on a years-long project – to breed a rare type of turkey called the Chocolate turkey.
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