Climate + Environment

Bonito tail

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Climate + Environment

Climate + Environment

In MA, First-Ever Fishing Limits for False Albacore and Bonito Likely Coming

April 8, 2025

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Signs pointing towards Routes 6 and 10, along with Interstate 95, in Providence’s Silver Lake neighborhood.

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News + Culture

News + Culture

Sidelined Route 6/10 Contractor Sues Competitor Over Alleged Smear Campaign

April 8, 2025

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Christopher Shea

Wind turbine debris, shown on Nobadeer Beach on Nantucket, was strewn in local waters and on the shore after a blade failure at Vineyard Wind last summer. Now the Town of Nantucket is challenging the federal approval of a different wind farm, SouthCoast Wind.

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Climate + Environment

Climate + Environment

SouthCoast Wind Responds to Nantucket Litigation Against Wind Farm’s Federal Approval

April 4, 2025

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Jennette Barnes

Zak Mertz holds a spring peeper frog, moments before setting it free next to a vernal pool in Weymouth

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Climate + Environment

Climate + Environment

As Spring Arrives, So Does a Symphony of Nature Sounds

April 4, 2025

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A NOAA NO-XP radar antenna prior to operations in VORTEX 2 in Norman, Oklahoma, on Oct. 5, 2010.

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Climate + Environment

Climate + Environment

U.S. House Dems Say NOAA Cuts Will Harm Weather Forecasting, Fisheries, Navy Operations

Rhode Island U.S. Rep. Magaziner says mass layoffs at agency are ‘outright dangerous’

April 3, 2025

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The Fox Point Hurricane Barrier stands open on July 1, 2024. The 25-foot barrier is meant to keep storm surges from flooding downtown Providence.

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Climate + Environment

Climate + Environment

Climate Disasters Are on the Rise. These States Want to Make Oil Companies Pay

April 2, 2025

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Climate + Environment

Climate + Environment

Awash in Uncertainty, SouthCoast Wind Contract Delayed for a Third Time

Price negotiations between developer and utility companies now set to end June 30

April 1, 2025

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A growing demand for electricity combined with international instability have driven up utility rates beyond Rhode Island Energy’s control, the utility company says.

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Politics + Justice

Politics + Justice

State Utility Regulators Slash RI Energy’s Capital Budget as Customer Outrage Mounts

Summer electric rates to decrease, but gas bills are going up

March 31, 2025

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Trish, a juvenile gray seal, was one of the seals featured in a new study that looks at the mammals' oxygen-sensing abilities.

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Climate + Environment

Climate + Environment

Why Don’t Diving Seals Drown? Scientists Finally Have an Answer

March 31, 2025

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Jonathan Lambert

Billy Frank Jr., left, a Nisqually tribal elder, was arrested dozens of times while trying to assert his native fishing rights during the ‘Fish Wars’ of the 1960s and 1970s. In this 2014 photo, he stands with Ed Johnstone of the Quinault tribe.

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Climate + Environment

Climate + Environment

As Federal Environmental Priorities Shift, Sovereign Native American Nations Have Their Own Plans

March 31, 2025

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Alyssa Kreikemeier, University of Idaho