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This week on NEXT podcast from the New England News Collaborative: North Atlantic right whales are under threat of extinction. Scientists say entanglement…

Each month we check in with the reporters and editors at Nature News for a roundup of recent science headlines. This month, we hear from senior reporter…

It’s been five years since Superstorm Sandy struck New England. This hurricane season set a record for the most consecutive hurricanes and threatens to…

New England's Fishermen and the Challenges of Climate ChangeNew England’s coastal waters are warming faster than 90% of the rest of the world’s oceans. We look at fishermen as an indicator species, on the leading edge of that change, forced to adapt. Fishermen are engaged in new collaborations with scientists to understand climate change; in some cases they've switched to fishing entirely new species; and for some fishermen, adapting has meant moving out of the marine fisheries into aquaculture—but even that industry is proving vulnerable to environmental threats. A 3-part report by Pien Huang.Pien Huang is a GroundTruth Fellow stationed at WCAI.

STEM seems to be everywhere these days. To most, the acronym stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. In Sandwich, the buzzword has an…

President Trump last week nominated Sam Clovis to be chief scientist for the USDA, formally known as the Under Secretary for Research, Education, and…

As Joe Biden steps in as the 46th President of the United States, we look beyond inauguration day to focus on policy changes and priorities of the new…

Methane. It's the other greenhouse gas - less common and shorter-lived than carbon dioxide, but also a much more potent heat trapper.If there's one…

The NENC is a 9-station consortium of public media newsrooms reporting stories that are shared and broadcast across New England. Our multimedia coverage delves into climate change and clean energy; racial inequality and immigration; and the impacts of the pandemic on people, businesses and schools in the region.

This Sunday on Arts & Ideas: a new Moth about facing challenges and revealing your truest self, some of America's best female spies tell their stories, and how we can develop technology to pull carbon out of the atmosphere.