Education
Northampton Night Fest aims to celebrate dark skies and join advocates calls for responsible light use.
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Environment
Reducing deer populations could have public health and ecological benefits for Mass, but not everyone agrees boosting the annual harvest will help.
Environment
A proposal for a wood-burning power plant may now move forward despite over a decade of community opposition, thanks to what activists are calling...
Environment
From thousands of miles away, air pollution is traveling to New England and hitting already-polluted areas hardest.
Environment
A public stakeholder meeting held last week highlighted risks of inaction and detailed potential management strategies of the invasive plant hydrilla.
Environment
Climate change is fueling extreme swings between wet and dry weather worldwide. But as western Mass faces drought and wildfire risks, the Trump administration...
Education
Schools in Agawam, West Springfield, Springfield, and other western Mass cities have some of the highest exposure to toxic air hazards in the state,...
Community
For more than a decade, Springfield residents and environmentalists resisted efforts to build a wood-burning “biomass” power plant in their city. Their struggle offers...
Community
The arrival of 21 new F-35 jets was announced last month. The war planes will soon bring much more noise to the region's skies.
Education
Student and faculty organizers say they remain focused on full divestment from fossil fuels and weapons contractors.
Environment
A state study estimated using Quabbin water locally would cost about half a billion dollars. Some from the region say they'd just as soon...
Environment
With a drought and its resultant fires ongoing across the state, The Shoestring looks into the biggest emitters in western Mass.