Providence is Too Hot to Handle
In July of 1995, Chicago experienced an intense heatwave, watching temperatures climb tas high as 106 degrees Fahrenheit while feeling like124 degrees. Over the five days this extreme heat lasted, 739...
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Shrub-par Returns
Tropical forests are one of our most crucial defenses against climate change, but they are disappearing at an alarming rate. A record 6.7 million hectares of rainforest were lost in 2024, largely due...
Death by a Thousand Pumps
Before the first Americans carved out rectangular borders and called it “the Southwest,” before the Diné established their tribal homeland between the four sacred mountains, the area was water and imm...
Mist-Direction
What do oil companies, ultraconservative think tanks, and billionaires agree on regarding global warming? Perhaps that it is propaganda, pseudoscience, or a hoax? Or perhaps something more paradoxical...
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The Inequality of Air Quality in America
Safe air is disproportionately concentrated in more affluent communities, while minorities and low income populations are burdened with higher pollution levels.
Tree-Hugging to Bug-Stomping: Spotted Lantern Flies are Changing Environmentalism
The invasion of the spotted lantern fly across the eastern United States has sparked a new type of aggressive environmentalism. As the “Stomp it” message has spread, it has revealed how much stronger...
VideoPolitics of Presence: Native and Nonnative Natures
The idea of a fixed “native range” is, at best, a human snapshot, one moment in a much longer story of flux.
Free Dog Meat? When Satire Meets Science: An Interview with Dr. Faraz Harsini
Dr. Faraz Harsini is the founder and CEO of Allied Scholars for Animal Protection (ASAP), a nonprofit organization working with students to promote animal rights and plant-based diets on college campu...
Stuck in the Corn Maze
The political power of the corn lobby has resulted in a subsidy system that distorts the corn market by encouraging overproduction, inflating land prices, and fostering disregard for environmental con...
Green Dreams, Red Nightmares
On July 7, 2021, 48 environmental and progressive advocacy groups released an open letter that “[called] on the Biden administration and all members of Congress to eschew the dominant antagonistic app...
Rats! We’re Killing Our Wildlife!
The BPR High School Program invites student writers from Providence-area public schools to research, draft, and edit a college-level opinion article over the course of a semester. A special thank you...
Preventing Gentrification and Promoting Environmental Justice: The Importance of Meaningful Community Engagement in Superfund Cleanup
It’s been decades since the buildings of the White Chemical Corp. in Newark, New Jersey were demolished, the 10,000 drums leaking carcinogenic Trichloroethylene and 1,2-Dichloroethane were removed, an...
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Green Wave Meets Crimson Tide
Mississippi and Alabama buck partisan politics to find an unlikely ally in the Biden Administration.
Drowning in Risk
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has faced significant challenges due to repeated home floods caused by heavy rain, such as the instance of a house in Spring, Texas, which flooded 19 times...
Energizing Regulation
As we look to promote clean energy development, there is a lack of attention on improving the regulatory process.
It’s Always Sunny in Texas
Republican State Legislatures Are Teaching Climate Denialism As Their Classrooms Overheat
Righting Regional Wrongs: Pine Tree Power and RI Healthcare
Rather than discussions and proposals for Medicare for All and Public Options that stall and die in legislature, Rhode Island should take cues from Maine’s Pine Tree Power ballot initiative and acquir...
Designed to Fail
A black plume hung over the rural town of East Palestine, Ohio, for several days in early February. The apocalyptic scene was caused by the derailment of a train carrying hazardous material on Februar...
