By WBUR
Dylan Carlson Sirvent León was working in his office at Harvard University when he began receiving frantic messages from his research colleagues. Environmental data was starting to disappear from government websites. It was January, and President Trump had just taken office for the second time. Researchers across the country had expected some information to go offline, as it had during the first Trump administration.
By WBUR
Dylan Carlson Sirvent León was working in his office at Harvard University when he began receiving frantic messages from his research colleagues. Environmental data was starting to disappear from government websites. It was January, and President Trump had just taken office for the second time. Researchers across the country had expected some information to go offline, as it had during the first Trump administration.
By Dusty Christensen
From thousands of miles away, air pollution is traveling to New England and hitting already-polluted areas hardest.
By WCVB
From solar panels to composting bathrooms, the Hitchcock Center is redefining green architecture
By Jeanette DeForge
SPRINGFIELD – The federal government has slashed a grant that provided hands-on science and engineering lessons for Springfield children, ending a learning opportunity for an estimated 1,000 third-graders. Officials at the Hitchcock Center for the Environment in Amherst learned last week that two of its federal grants totaling roughly $583,000 have been cut.
By Jeanette DeForge
SPRINGFIELD – The federal government has slashed a grant that provided hands-on science and engineering lessons for Springfield children, ending a learning opportunity for an estimated 1,000 third-graders. Officials at the Hitchcock Center for the Environment in Amherst learned last week that two of its federal grants totaling roughly $583,000 have been cut.
By Emilee Klein
For the last two years, the Hitchcock Center for the Environment has aimed to help more than 1,000 third graders in Springfield Public Schools envision themselves as scientists and engineers.
Through the federally funded Schools Exploring Engineering, Design and Sustainability (SEEDS) program, the Amherst-based science and environmental education nonprofit provides teachers with the materials and training for four different design challenges to exercise students’ problem-solving and collaborative skills.
By Scott Merzbach
Life-threatening dangers are posed any time a migratory bird approaches a building, unaware that it could be on course to strike a window. “They just see a reflection of vegetation or of the sky,” says Randy Dettmers, migratory bird biologist at U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in Hadley, who estimates that 20 to 30 birds annually can be fatally injured at any one- or two-story building.
By Barbara Moran and Vivian La
Weeks after a federal funding freeze — and after multiple judges ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze those accounts — some Massachusetts nonprofit groups still can’t access grant money they were promised. Others say they can access the funds but worry the cash will disappear again as they try to pay for a variety of environmental projects. At the Wayland-based Native Plant Trust, staffers still can’t access a grant for seed banking from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
By Arc Solutions
One of the oldest amphibian crossings in the United States has been helping yellow spotted salamanders cross the road for more than 35 years. In Amherst, Massachusetts, two small tunnels help these hefty salamanders—up to ten inches in length—and other local amphibians such as wood frogs and spring peeper frogs cross under Henry Street. This two-lane road cuts between the salamander’s upland habitat, where they spend most of their lives, and vernal pools where they congregate every spring to breed and lay their eggs.
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