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By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — Organizers of the Charlemont Forum are bringing discussions on climate change and resulting migration to town in this season’s second program.The Charlemont Forum will host Columbia University professor Alex de Sherbinin for his free talk...

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Facilities that burn wood to create energy should not be eligible for credits under a state program that rewards generators of “clean heat,” advocates said last week, arguing that two bills would close loopholes in the state’s climate...

By JULIA BLATT

When we think of climate change, the first images that come to mind are of hot temperatures, melting ice caps, and greenhouse gases clogging the atmosphere. A recent report by the United Nations, however, warns that most people will actually...

By EMILEE KLEIN

GREENFIELD — For the past 30 years, the construction industry has incorporated renewable energy, increased efficiency of heating and cooling systems, engineered air-tight installation and pursued other efforts to reduce greenhouse gasses emitted from...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

In a world of rapidly rising energy costs and quests for sustainable energy, one of the oldest forms of heating may provide an alternative, although its use is not without controversy.Proponents of modern wood heating systems, fueled by either wood...

By CHRIS LARABEE

With last month marking the warmest January on record for Massachusetts and New England, updated data from the University of Massachusetts Amherst is also putting the region on pace for one of its warmest winters ever.The average temperature in...

By BELLA LEVAVI

When members of the all-volunteer Shelburne Energy Committee found out that the Cowell Gymnasium was the biggest municipal energy user in the town, they worked together to make a change. The group obtained a Green Communities grant of about $120,000...

By CHRIS LARABEE

While campaigning, one of Gov. Maura Healey’s climate priorities was to place a moratorium on commercial logging on state-owned forest land, a move that foresters and environmental advocates say would be detrimental to forest health, the state’s...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CONWAY — Shelburne Falls resident Karina Lutz, a facilitator with the Work That Reconnects Network, says anxiety found in your body is often your mind’s attempt to make change. This can be true when it comes to interpersonal relationships, difficult...

By RUSS VERNON-JONES

Sometime on Nov. 15, 2022, according to demographers, a baby was born somewhere in the world who brought the number of humans living on the planet to eight billion. That’s a lot of us!How does population growth relate to our efforts to solve the...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

WHATELY — While winter’s warmest days remind us that our climate’s future could be bleak, the future generation reminds us that it may not have to be.Stephanie Apanell’s fourth grade class at Whately Elementary School joined forces with Amherst’s...

By CHRIS LARABEE

If you felt last year was historically warm, new data from the University of Massachusetts Amherst confirms that feeling as 2022 marked the sixth-warmest year and second-warmest summer on record in the state.With statewide temperatures averaging 50.3...

By DANIEL A. BROWN

I collect old LIFE magazines and was recently surprised to see a two-page advertisement in a February 1962 issue by Esso (Later Exxon) boasting that each day, they “Supply enough energy to melt 7 million tons of glacier!” Those were the exact words...

By CHRIS LARABEE

When it comes to producers of greenhouse gas emissions, the usual suspects are the airplanes flying over our heads or fossil fuels being burned to generate electricity, but the waste we generate every day contributes a significant amount of methane to...

By MARY BYRNE

On her fourth day in office on Wednesday, Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer joined legislators and climate activists from across the state, including many from western Massachusetts, who gathered to celebrate the efforts of the new administration and...

By CHRIS LARABEE

CONWAY — In an effort to help people process their anxiety over the environment and climate change, a Conway artist is forming an eco-grief support group.Hannah Harvester’s weekly community support group is designed to help people process their...

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — Just a few years after Deerfield became the first community in the state to be approved for the Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness Program (MVP), the town is again at the front lines of climate resiliency with an award-winning soil...

By JACOB NELSON

With Agric Organics, Hameed Bello and his wife, Ayo, are intent on building an urban farm that can be a multi-faceted resource for their community in Wilbraham, supplying farm-fresh food, health and education while withstanding the challenges of...