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Harvard helps launch new satellite to combat climate change by tracking methane emissions

A ready to launch satellite built to combat climate change, and engineered in part by researchers at Harvard, will pinpoint methane emissions to their source.

UN warns of climate change impact on farms and rural households run by women in poor countries

The United Nations says that women who run farms and rural households in poor countries suffer more from climate change and are discriminated against as they try to adapt to other sources of income in times of crises.

Federal regulators issue citation to company behind the Pilgrim nuclear facility clean-up

The company in charge of decommissioning the Pilgram nuclear power plant is being cited by federal regulators for a misuse of trust funds.

City to launch pilot program to replace gas stoves with electric in Dorchester

Boston received $1 million in federal funding to retrofit 80 gas stoves to electric in two affordable housing communities, the Boston Housing Authority’s Franklin Field Apartments and Talbot Bernard Homes, which is run by the Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation.

What would happen without a Leap Day? More than you might think.

The math is mind-boggling in a layperson sort of way and down to fractions of days and minutes. There's even a leap second occasionally, but there's no hullabaloo when that happens.

Flash floods are increasingly dangerous and expensive in the Northeast. These charts and maps show why.

Here’s four things to know about more extreme precipitation.

UN member states are meeting to plan how to tackle the world’s environmental crises

Talks to shape global environmental policy started on Monday in Nairobi, where governments, civil society groups, scientists, and the private sector met to plan collective environmental action.

As climate change soaks New England, flash flooding is costing cities

Massachusetts communities are struggling to recover from a huge increase in what one state emergency management official has called “gap disasters” — devastating storms that don’t qualify for federal aid.