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89 seconds to midnight: WMass group Back from the Brink reacts to resetting of ‘Doomsday Clock’
01-29-2025 4:22 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

NORTHAMPTON — The “Doomsday Clock” is moving forward.

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Disaster relief fund, championed by local legislators, grows to $15M in FY26 budget proposal
02-06-2025 4:16 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE

BOSTON — When flooding devastated the Pioneer Valley in summer 2023, it took an extraordinary partnership between the state, nonprofits and private individuals to quickly bring millions of dollars in aid to those affected.


Mount Holyoke College’s $180M march toward carbon neutrality
12-09-2024 4:34 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Mount Holyoke College hopes to celebrate its bicentennial in 2037 by declaring the campus carbon neutral, and the liberal arts college has already taken significant steps toward that goal as it moves into phase three of a new geothermal...


Mass Audubon speaks to language in clean energy law to minimize land use concerns
12-08-2024 12:01 PM

By ADA DENENFELD KELLY

While the recent passage of a new clean energy law leaves details of implementation to be solidified over the next 15 months before it takes effect, Mass Audubon’s director of legislative and government affairs is feeling hopeful about one aspect of...


Climate activist Bill McKibben’s light in dark times: Solar
12-03-2024 5:14 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

AMHERST — The past few weeks have been tough for climate activism, and longtime climate activist Bill McKibben, who makes his home in Vermont, is feeling the heat.This year will be the hottest year on record, breaking the record-setting temperatures...


Data shows a historic dry fall for western Mass
12-03-2024 3:59 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE

With bodies of water receding and brush fires throughout the state, it was clearly a dry fall for the Pioneer Valley and new data analysis confirms the season was historically dry for western Massachusetts.Preliminary National Weather Service data for...


New invader here: Spotted lanternfly appears in Hampshire County, posing threat to grapes, apples, other crops
10-03-2024 4:46 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — While lounging under a tree at Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter School, middle school student Addison Gosselin felt the tickle of a critter crawling on her leg.Gosselin ushered the little bug onto her hand, and immediately...


Climate change fallout for NE: In first of four forums, expert explains what’s in store as temps keep rising
09-23-2024 5:33 PM

By SAMUL GELINAS

WILLIAMSBURG — The future of the climate in the Northeast will be one with increasingly high temperatures and more intense precipitation, with less biodiversity, poison ivy, ticks and invasive species. But it will also be a future where artichokes...


Farm risks rise with heat: Amid climate change, worker protections becoming more critical
09-20-2024 5:30 PM

By JACOB NELSON

Imagine this: It’s 10 a.m. and already near 90 degrees. The hot sun bakes the farm field where you and your coworkers are harvesting. With no clouds in sight or shade nearby, you wipe sweat from your brow and gulp down more water. It’s exhausting...


Fall forums on climate, energy begin Sunday in Williamsburg
09-19-2024 12:32 PM

By SAMUEL GELINAS

WILLIAMSBURG — Local climate trends and energy resources will be the subjects addressed at a series of forums being held on four Sundays this fall at the Anne T. Dunphy School.According to Jean O’Neil, speaking on behalf of co-sponsors Indivisible...


State climate chief hears from area farmers on putting climate-resilient methods into practice
09-17-2024 1:35 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — Two local farms opened their doors to Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer on Monday morning to talk about the challenges brought on by climate change, as well as opportunities for future investments in the industry.The state’s first-ever climate...


UMass professor Brian Yellen named state geologist
09-17-2024 1:24 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

AMHERST — A University of Massachusetts professor has been appointed as the state’s fifth geologist, a position that involves directing the Massachusetts Geological Survey located on the Amherst campus.In this role, professor Brian Yellen will broaden...


Earth Matters: Coming together for climate action: Hitchcock Center facilitates conversation and action on a community level
08-29-2024 1:59 PM

By BILLY SPITZER

We are all experiencing the impacts of climate change more each day, in our own communities and around the world. Recent data from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication shows that 72% of Americans understand that climate change is real,...


Clean energy measure founders: House, Senate struggle to reconcile bills overhauling siting, procurement
08-02-2024 3:45 PM

By COLIN A. YOUNG

BOSTON — A small crowd of climate activists marched through the State House on Thursday morning, chanting about lawmakers’ failure to strike a deal on a clean energy bill deemed urgent and essential by the very lawmakers who could not agree on a...


Students on forests’ front lines: Pilot program trains next generation to control invasive plants, protect and plant trees
08-01-2024 6:21 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — On a woody hillside in a 100-plus-acre private parcel, Phoebe Weinberg, her face blocked by a shield attached to her hard helmet, begins dismantling an autumn olive growing over a red oak sapling. The roar of the chainsaw covers the...


UMass lands $6.4M EPA grant to help steel industry shrink carbon footprint
07-18-2024 4:26 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — More than 37% of annual global greenhouse gas emissions are produced by the billions of tons of concrete, asphalt, steel, glass and other construction materials used in buildings and other infrastructure projects, according to U.S....


South Hadley to set up affordable housing trust
07-15-2024 11:42 AM

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — The Planning Department will establish an Affordable Housing Trust within the next year to support affordable and sustainable housing projects, an initiative being funded by grant money from the state’s Municipal Vunerability...


Feds eye flood mitigation measures in Pioneer Valley
07-01-2024 4:49 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE and ALEXA LEWIS

With Massachusetts experiencing its seventh-wettest year on record in 2023 as torrential rainstorms ravaged roads, farms and homes, the federal government, the state and those here in the Pioneer Valley are turning their eyes toward future flood...


Easthampton aims for Climate Leader status by adopting new building code, prioritizing EV buys
06-28-2024 1:22 PM

By ALEXA LEWIS

EASTHAMPTON — The city is preparing to take its commitment to combating climate change to a new level now that the City Council has signed off on two key measures that will qualify Easthampton for a Climate Leader Community designation. Councilors...


A blooming movement: Pollinator gardens proliferate as homeowners, others look to create ecosystems on their properties
06-24-2024 5:36 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

FLORENCE — Morey Phippen and Brian Adams’ yard looks nothing like the traditional blanket of green grass associated with suburban lawns.Instead, bumblebees and butterflies bob and weave around her destined for the nearby foxglove, pink primrose, red...


Easthampton seeks comment on climate action plan
06-24-2024 4:15 PM

By ALEXA LEWIS

EASTHAMPTON — For over a year, Easthampton has been working to draft a Climate Action Plan that would make the city a model for emissions reduction and green practices.After an intensive assessment and development process involving several public...

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