Recent local events give me hope at a time when climate change news is becoming more and more dire.
Climate change
July 22, 2021
Kate Warner
As a heat dome persists over the American West, an untamable wildfire rages over southern Oregon and record hot temperatures and water shortages make life in the West difficult, floods in much of Europe — Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland, parts of England and now China — have also had a devastating effect.
July 22, 2021
Noah Asimow
Eversource has canceled a long-awaited battery energy storage project planned for Martha’s Vineyard, complicating a plan to achieve ambitious green energy goals on the Vineyard.
August 12, 2021
Brendan O'Neill
The Martha’s Vineyard Commission is taking an important step to address the Island’s growth crisis through a new carrying capacity study.
2018
June 10, 2018
Climate change is here and the Vineyard is on the front lines. This was the message at the third Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Conference held last week in Edgartown.
March 29, 2018
As we recover from our fourth major winter storm of 2018, it is hard not to look forward to the warmer weather ahead.
2017
August 3, 2017
A small herbarium at Polly Hill Arborteum is helping researchers monitor climate change, which has already left its mark on flowering plants in the region.
July 6, 2017
On April 22, more than a million citizens marched in 600 cities across the United States and abroad in support of science — an impressive turnout.
June 8, 2017
This is not the time to focus on self-interest. But President Trump’s climate policy is clearly a bad deal for Martha’s Vineyard.
June 8, 2017
The Dukes Conservation district will host a lecture and discussion on climate change on June 29.
