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Boston suffered more than 20 inches of rain during the summer of 2022, setting a record that was only broken when two hurricanes brought 25 inches of rain in 1955. An estimated 1.5 billion gallons of water sluiced off the land, overwhelmed sewage...

By ROB MOIR

With climate change, a 1% increase in watts per square meter of heat energy is warming the ocean, causing seawater to swell, currents to flow stronger, and greater storms to rage. Ancient Greeks believed Oceanus, the ocean river, separated the known...

By ROB MOIR

Massachusetts officially declared April 24 as Right Whale Day to raise awareness about the endangered. North Atlantic right whales, the state’s official marine mammal.Right whales have been coming to Cape Cod Bay in April for as long as there has been...

By ROB MOIR

The forests of the U.S. Northeast are in peril. Global warming has raised temperatures, improving conditions for insects such as the emerald ash borer, to ravage trees already stressed due to drought and scorching summers.Massachusetts forests...