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Climate Change

MARY RANDOLPH

Disparities Remain Across Boston’s Access To Tree Cover, Green Space, Data Shows

Experts say it’s a difficult problem to fix, but worth trying to do so

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MARY RANDOLPH July 24, 2025
photo of Ipswich, Mass. farmer Shendel Bakal holding up some beets
OLIVIA CAFARELLI MANZI

Rain, Rain, Gone Away: Massachusetts Farmers Struggle Amid Worsening Drought Crisis

Massachusetts Farmers Struggle Amid Worsening Drought Crisis

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OLIVIA CAFARELLI MANZI February 6, 2025
Collage by Jason Pramas
JASON PRAMAS

APPARENT HORIZON: CANARY IN A CARBON TRAP

For a growing number of people like me, global warming is already a serious and worsening health threat

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JASON PRAMAS August 22, 2024
The mouth of Alewife Brook at the Mystic River. The bridge carries the Mystic Valley Parkway bewtween Somerville and Arlington, Massachusetts. Photo by Magicpiano. GNU Free Documentation License 2017 Magicpiano.
LINDA PINKOW

HOW TO CONTROL SEWAGE OVERFLOWS

Somerville, Cambridge, MWRA jointly update communities on long-term environmental planning to protect waterways from wastewater (Somerville Wire) – Most sewer systems in the United States have two dedicated, separated networks of pipes—one for sewage and one for stormwater. But many parts of Cambridge and Somerville have combined sewer systems, with

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LINDA PINKOW December 21, 2022
GABBY RAYMOND

INTERVIEW & EVENT (JULY 28) AT PORTER SQUARE BOOKS TO DISCUSS CLIMATE CHANGE

“The positive that always comes out of those conversations is that you end up getting much more integration of a successful business because most people want to know what a company stands for.”

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GABBY RAYMOND July 26, 2019
Jason Pramas and Amy Carter at the “Northampton 15” CIA Off Campus Trial in Northampton, MA on April 8, 1987. Stills from WGBH archival video, courtesy of the Boston TV News Digital Library.
JASON PRAMAS

ON THE IMPORTANCE OF POLITICAL ACTIVISM IN AN AGE OF EXISTENTIAL THREATS

IMAGE: Jason Pramas and Amy Carter at the “Northampton 15” CIA Off Campus Trial in Northampton, MA on April 8, 1987. Stills from WGBH archival video, courtesy of the Boston TV News Digital Library. This week, a reminder that politics is not a spectator sport. I was listening to a

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JASON PRAMAS March 13, 2019
“Sunset Koksijde” by fdecomite is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0.
JASON PRAMAS

2019: WE HAVE 11 YEARS TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE

In last week’s column looking back at “2018: The Year in Global Warming,”  I reviewed the dire threat posed to humanity and our environment by climate change, and concluded with the following: The big question for Bostonians and anyone else reading this: How do we go from this grim state

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JASON PRAMAS December 26, 2018
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JASON PRAMAS

2018: THE YEAR IN GLOBAL WARMING

“We are the first generation to fully understand climate change and the last generation to be able to do something about it.” —Petteri Taalas, secretary-general, World Meteorological Organization   Given all the developments I could review from the year that’s now drawing to a close—and given that I primarily write

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JASON PRAMAS December 19, 2018
JASON PRAMAS

BOSTON FIDDLES WHILE THE WORLD BURNS

City government continues issuing reports while UN calls for immediate action

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JASON PRAMAS October 24, 2018
JASON PRAMAS

THE MERRIMACK VALLEY DISASTER: IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT OLD PIPES

The magnitude of the disaster is just starting to sink in. About 8,500 homes were affected, and its occupants are being told that it will take months to replace the cast iron gas pipes under city streets and restore service.

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JASON PRAMAS September 18, 2018
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