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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 MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — In the four months Robert Ramirez has lived in Greenfield, he’s had nowhere to take a warm shower, or wash and dry his clothes. “I’m not the only one,” said Ramirez, 37, who said he’s been living in a tent while he waits for a bed to open...

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 EVELINE MACDOUGALL

Kara and Chris Peters raise their glasses every December 31 and toss back shots of fire cider, greeting the New Year with a concoction Peters makes herself.“I started making fire cider when the kids were little, to try to boost immune systems and keep...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The homeless population in Franklin County can count on seeing greater resources available soon as the result of a multi-partner development effort led by community behavioral health agency Clinical & Support Options (CSO).The nonprofit...

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...

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

Mia Kortebein wasn’t initially convinced when Carl Woodruff, her then-boyfriend, said he wanted to build a house.“I wasn’t certain I was ready to put down roots,” said Kortebein. “I told Carl, ‘Go for it. But that’s your dream, not mine. I can’t...