Type Archive: News
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The Guardian: Revealed –1,000 super-emitting methane leaks risk triggering climate tipping points
Vast releases of gas, along with future ‘methane bombs’, represent huge threat – but curbing emissions would rapidly reduce global heating
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The Boston Globe: Massachusetts needs a coastal adaptation agency
The state currently relies on a piecemeal approach, but cities and towns have limited ability to act effectively on their own. Most of their coastlines are privately owned and there are few options for raising funds locally to pay for costly flood control infrastructure.
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The Boston Globe: Fort Point Channel floodgate idea advances, but how to pay for it?
Estimates range as high as $767 million, but it could prevent billions of dollars of property damage during a catastrophic storm
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CommonWealth: Waterfront resilience is ground zero in climate fight
Op-ed from New England Aquarium President & CEO Vikki Spruill, and GRC Member, on how nature-based solutions lend themselves to resiliency strategies
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Brookings: How US cities are finding creative ways to fund climate progress
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CommonWealth: Tepper names former colleague to head DOER
Mahony to become ‘epicenter of clean energy transition’
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The Boston Globe: In one frigid weekend, four emergency rooms closed. Are hospitals ready for a changing climate?
Hospitals have seen a record number of evacuations and closures nationally in the last decade due to climate change.
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WBUR: New $50 million grant program will help ‘decarbonize’ low-income housing in Mass.
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New Scientist: We don’t need ‘miracle’ green technologies to save the planet
A focus on revolutionary solutions like carbon capture and geoengineering is slowing the uptake of existing answers to the problems of climate change, air pollution and energy security, says environmental engineer Mark Jacobson
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The Boston Globe: A new force for climate bills on Beacon Hill – the New England Aquarium
The Aquarium is launching its first-ever lobbying effort, hoping to push a slate of environmental and climate-related bills through the Legislature.