climate change

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, along with colleagues in the House of Representatives, introduced legislation March 30 to federally codify protections for access to abortions nationwide. Keywords: Ayanna Pressley, women’s reproductive health, abortion access, environmental justice.

Sculptor Claudia Comte erected a series titled “Five Marble Leaves,” along the Boston waterfront, inspired by the 24 pin and red oak trees in Central Wharf Park.

U.S. Sen. Ed Markey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu jointly praised the United States Senate’s approval of a bill that will boost efforts to combat global warming and cut back demand for fossil fuels through an unprecedented $350 billion in clean energy tax credits, among other measures.

Big Papi has loomed large at Fenway Park for decades, but now his image physically marks the historic ballpark in a new mural created by local artist Silvia López Chavez.

The global climate crisis takes center stage in “Ocean Filibuster,” running at the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University through March 13. Audiences are immersed in a Senate chamber of a global governing body where two parties, Mr. Majority and the Ocean, argue their cases.

In Massachusetts, the crises of climate change and affordable housing continue to substantially worsen.

Acknowledging the recent tornado warnings and a close call with a hurricane that affected Massachusetts in recent weeks, acting Mayor Kim Janey announced Aug. 26 that she is asking the state to withdraw the Downtown Waterfront District Municipal Harbor Plan that had been submitted by the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA).

In late October and early November, eight residents, aged 20 to 60 – some of whom participated in the on-site planting – took a virtual 35-hour training course, taught by Queeley and his colleague Danilo Morales over three weekends, in preparation for the National Green Infrastructure Certification Program’s exam.

Over the next few decades, Boston will increasingly see the impacts of the climate crisis. People living in Roxbury will deal with excessive heat. And residents of East Boston will face massive amounts of flooding, which will endanger lives as well as livelihoods.

Six new murals have sprouted on the East Boston waterfront at the HarborArts outdoor gallery. Presented by Linda Cabot in collaboration with PangeaSeed Foundation and its Sea Walls: Artists for Oceans public art initiative, the murals all address different components of climate change and environmental activism.

Hundreds of students, as young as elementary school and all the way through to college, turned out Friday on the steps of the State House to tell legislators that they want to see action to combat climate change.