A warming climate brings plenty of visible changes, such as retreating glaciers and rising sea levels. Nikki Lindt is on a mission to capture its audible changes.

Leaders from all six New England states are gathering in Lowell on Wednesday for a one-day summit to discuss what role nuclear power could play in helping to meet the region's growing electricity dema...

Biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have discovered what may be the world’s loudest birds. There are now three contenders for the Noisiest Bird Award, all living in Brazil. But exact...

A warming climate brings plenty of visible changes, such as retreating glaciers and rising sea levels. Nikki Lindt is on a mission to capture its audible changes.

New England scientists and fishermen are urging the Trump administration to continue funding the Ocean Observatories Initiative — a network of hundreds of buoys and gliders that collect data from remo...

The towering statue of Robert E. Lee on horseback was removed from a park in Charlottesville, Virginia, and melted down.

Residents are raising concerns about noise, privacy and safety after Amazon announced plans to use 80-pound drones that can travel up to 75 miles per hour to delivery packages in parts of Massachusett...

Alaska's melting permafrost — frozen soil, rock and underground — is threatening the quality of life for many residents.

Global heating contributes to record, with a warmer atmosphere able to hold more water, scientists say

The president chalked the ban up to what he called unfavorable coverage, and he threatened that bans on other media companies could be coming.

“ Boston's density, scarcity of developable land and existing demands on our infrastructure make large-scale data centers incompatible with the direction we should be taking as a city,” Culpepper said during the meeting.

The species, called a tilcayo, is smaller than a house cat and lives in the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains in Bolivia.

Long before artificial intelligence was a fact of everyday life, a group of universities co-founded the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center for scientific research. The facility’s su...

“ Boston's density, scarcity of developable land and existing demands on our infrastructure make large-scale data centers incompatible with the direction we should be taking as a city,” Culpepper said...

A memo from the Fish and Wildlife Service suggests that only intentional killing of endangered animals should be illegal. This interpretation would dramatically narrow the scope of the Endangered Spe...

To do your part in supporting healthy Massachusetts forests, first familiarize yourself with these five common tree pests.  

A federal judge ruled yesterday that President Trump cannot tear down the Kennedy Center without a 30-day notice. And, recent lawsuits seek to keep armed federal officers away from polling sites.

A memo from the Fish and Wildlife Service suggests that only intentional killing of endangered animals should be illegal. This interpretation would dramatically narrow the scope of the Endangered Spe...

Do you live in Massachusetts and heat your home with heating oil? Are you feeling anxious about prices this winter? We want to talk with you.

An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.

The company cleaning up the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth will not be allowed to discharge radioactive wastewater into Cape Cod Bay.

Do you live in Massachusetts and heat your home with heating oil? Are you feeling anxious about prices this winter? We want to talk with you.

The company cleaning up the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth will not be allowed to discharge radioactive wastewater into Cape Cod Bay.

In the first project of its kind, scientists are trying to answer if the future of Alaska’s streams and tundra may depend not on survival of the fittest but on how species adapt together

Long before artificial intelligence was a fact of everyday life, a group of universities co-founded the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center for scientific research. The facility’s su...

Across Massachusetts, utilities are replacing millions of electric meters on homes and businesses with smart meters. They provide a lot more detail about electricity use, but not everyone is thrilled ...

Earth will breach a long-standing target before the end of the decade, report says.

While many residents are celebrating the project's cancellation, clean energy advocates say it highlights a big barrier to clean energy development: exorbitant interconnection fees.

Dr. Adam Kalkstein is suing the U. S. Military Academy, where he was a professor of geography and the only climate scientist, after being fired.

A renowned scientist at UMass Chan Medical School is moving his lab to Canada. The Canadian government named RNA researcher Phillip Zamore among the first recipients of awards that will total more tha...

"Weird Al" Yankovic returns to the Tiny Desk with a couple parodies, a Weezer pastiche and the Emmy-losing closing-credits blues-rock jam to Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.

RiboX confirms a patient died in its unregulated China trial for RXIM002, an in vivo CAR-T therapy — the third such disclosed death in recent weeks.

"There’s a thing out there called 'climate hushing' -- people arguing that Democrats should stop talking about climate change if they want to win elections," writes Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. "Whatever ...

WBUR offers three salaried, full-time, yearlong newsroom fellowships for early career journalists.

Summer camps are all about embracing the outdoors. But as climate change fuels dangerous heat and unhealthy air, the outdoors is becoming something camps must protect children from.

Summer camps are all about embracing the outdoors. But as climate change fuels dangerous heat and unhealthy air, the outdoors is becoming something camps must protect children from.

"The numbness or avoidance among many of us who care about the impact of Earth’s warming climate, is similar to the ambivalence and static grief that can take hold after a serious medical diagnosis," ...

"There’s a thing out there called 'climate hushing' -- people arguing that Democrats should stop talking about climate change if they want to win elections," writes Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. "Whatever ...

Summer camps are all about embracing the outdoors. But as climate change fuels dangerous heat and unhealthy air, the outdoors is becoming something camps must protect children from.

WBUR offers three salaried, full-time, yearlong newsroom fellowships for early career journalists.

The New England coast used to be crowded with wild oyster reefs. But the reefs have been decimated by overfishing, pollution, development and climate change. Aran Mooney, who studies underwater acoust...

The New England coast used to be crowded with wild oyster reefs. But the reefs have been decimated by overfishing, pollution, development and climate change. Aran Mooney, who studies underwater acoust...