CLIMATE CHANGE

Following a Superior Court upholding the Healey Administration's plan to stop expanding shelter availability amid surging demand, once the number of families in shelter reaches 7,500, Massachusetts won't guarantee placement to additional applicants.

The public has until Monday to submit comments on a 3,894-page report by General Electric on soil, ground water and habitat on a site in Lee where a PCB disposal facility is planned.

A wet summer and warmer temperatures can affect when trees decide to stop producing key nutrients that cause their leaves to change color.

CISA preps us for Climate Change and Farming week, Rep. Jim McGovern also laments climate change as we review the terrible weather incidents in his district this week, and UK Rockers Modern English join us in studio before they head to Greenfield and rock us all at Hawks & Reed this Saturday.

Two months remain in the state legislative year, and tax relief legislation remains unfinished.

A new $30 million federally-funded center will connect Native and western scientists at 8 international hubs and involve 57 indigenous communities

We find out what's wrong with local lilacs and even more wrong with local trees with Plant Pathologist Nick Brazee, head to Table & Vine to drink a much maligned grape with Michael Quinlan, and bring Franklin County's High Tea in for live music Friday.

Heat, poor air quality, rain and flooding affected New England summer theater this year.

The state of Massachusetts granted cities and towns more than $31.5 million to prepare for climate change. It includes more than $2 million to the Stockbridge-Munsee Nation to acquire and conserve 351 acres of their original homelands.

In New England, with extreme temperatures and excessive rain, it's been a tough growing year. While the increasing warmth could allow for new plant varieties and a longer growing season in the Northeast, southern diseases are also heading this way.