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‘The Earth Is Really Hurting, And We Can Do Something About It.’

BOSTON – The specter of silent, red-robed figures walking around Long Wharf, faces a ghostly white, stunned Gwendolen Noyes, her hands outstretched in agony.  “I was thunderstruck … they just hit me, and I couldn’t figure out what was going on,” said Noyes, a housing engineer who lives in Cambridge. 

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CHELSEA PLUNKETT December 18, 2025

Opinion: More Radioactive Waste With Nowhere To Go

The experimental technology promoted by the governor, the nuclear industry, and some academic institutions is still on the drawing board and has no proven cost parameters

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CAPE DOWNWINDERS November 5, 2025

Boston’s Zero Waste Initiative Falls Short On Commercial Waste

Despite businesses producing the majority of the city’s waste, efforts to reduce it have been largely focused on residential programs

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JORDAN DELFIUGO August 28, 2025

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

The Minimum Program: A Strategy For Political Mobilization

We can rebuild the Mass. (and US) left by fighting for democracy, human rights, environmental restoration, peace, and bread-and-butter economic guarantees for working people

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JASON PRAMAS March 6, 2025

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

Alewife Activists Give Tearful Testimonies At MBTA Board Meeting

“I am horrified by the lack of MBTA’s concern for public health in this area.” Cambridge residents decry planned heavy digging through asbestos and air out other concerns.

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CHRIS FARAONE December 19, 2024

THE BEST OF BINJ: ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING

We cover all disasters – from natural, to the man-made ones. Here’s some of our best environmental reporting from the first decade of BINJ

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BINJ ONLINE December 9, 2024

Eternal Shuttle: The Cost And Inconvenience Of MBTA Track Repair In Photos

It’s clear that the MBTA is already looking past its shuttle costs, which according to bid documents are expected to run approximately $250 million over five years. This is a documentation of what Greater Bostonians endured during track repairs.

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DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN November 25, 2024

APPARENT HORIZON RETURNS, COLUMN RUNS ON COUNTERPUNCH

Latest piece is on how for a growing number of people, global warming is already a serious and worsening health threat

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BOSTON INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT JOURNALISM September 1, 2024
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