Climate & Environment
Watch Hill Fire District challenges public right-of-way to Napatree Point; town council president faces backlash as shoreline advocates fear loss of public access
A proposal to eliminate the agency protecting whales, dolphins, and seals alarms scientists and advocates, who warn the move threatens coastal ecosystems and communities nationwide
Bottle bill supporters say beverage sale industry is part of the problem. Industry representatives claim this solution causes another one
Despite covering more than half the planet, the deep ocean remains largely unexplored, with less than 0.001% of its seafloor directly observed, researchers say
State economies, energy prices and climate change goals at risk under federal pause in offshore wind development
At least 27 percent of staff who worked at NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center when Trump took office are no longer with the agency. The Woods Hole lab is at the center of the regional fisheries operations
Improving water systems is a key way we can better adapt to climate change, according to Brown oceanographer Baylor Fox-Kemper