Climate & Environment

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

Politics

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

Migrating female baleen whales travel every year from the Arctic to the tropics to rear their calves. When they do that, they carry and release a staggering amount of nutrients in places that have very little to begin with. Scientists believe this may help sustain coral reefs and tropical fish populations.

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Climate & Environment

Climate & Environment

4,000 Tons of Nitrogen and 20 Million Big Macs: What Whales Bring to the Tropics Every Year in Nutrients

March 27, 2025

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Sen. Mark McKenney, a Warwick Democrat, has sponsored a comprehensive reform bill for the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council. He is shown during the Senate Committee on Environment hearing Wednesday, March 26, 2025.

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Climate & Environment

Climate & Environment

Now In Its Third Year, CRMC Reform Bill Sees Surge of Support

Push to abolish appointed council aims to take politics out of coastline protections

March 27, 2025

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The short term outlook for New England’s energy market and reliability is ‘generally favorable,’ ISO-NE President and CEO Gordon Van Welie told a congressional panel.

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Climate & Environment

Climate & Environment

New England Grid Operator Tells Congress Offshore Wind Critical to Future Power Reliability

March 26, 2025

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Annmarie Hilton

Images of marine life spotted in the midwater zone. Bucklin, et al., Marine Biology, 2021.

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Climate & Environment

Climate & Environment

Deep-Sea Mining Threatens Sea Life in a Way No One is Thinking About − by Dumping Debris Into Midwater Zone

March 26, 2025

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Alexus Cazares-Nuesser, University of Hawaii

A right whale known as #5120 is seen in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in July 2021. The young female was killed by chronic entanglement wounds and found on a Martha's Vineyard beach.

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Climate & Environment

Climate & Environment

Ship Owner Challenging Federal Ship Speed Rules Aimed at Protecting Right Whales

March 24, 2025

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