Áine Pennello
Report for America Environmental and Climate Change ReporterÁine Pennello is Connecticut Public Radio’s environmental and climate change reporter. She is a member of Report for America, a national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to cover under-reported issues and communities.
Aine previously worked as a reporter and Morning Edition newscaster for WUFT in Gainesville, Florida. There, she reported on education, health care and local government. She received two regional Edward R. Murrow awards for her reporting on student protests at the University of Florida and local reaction to the war in Gaza.
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With climate change causing more intense rainstorms, older pipes common to southern New England are likely to get overwhelmed more frequently. -
With summer temperatures giving way to cooler weather, you may see fewer mosquitoes buzzing about. But experts say August and September is when mosquitoes are most likely to carry West Nile virus. -
The Wednesday filing says the Trump administration's stop-work order caused "irreparable harm" to the states by "undermining their sovereign interests in procuring renewable energy." -
The agency is adding dye to five sites along the Connecticut River this year as part of a plan to get rid of hydrilla - an invasive, hard-to-kill plant that threatens fish and other wildlife. -
Hank Sprouse is part of a dwindling community of bird carvers, a group of artists who make lifelike birds out of blocks of wood. -
Emissions from CT's largest sources of climate pollution are down, but state still lags on 2030 goalThe findings come amid a proposed effort by the Trump administration to roll back climate regulations. -
PosiGen laid off 78 people from its offices in Shelton, Danbury and Wethersfield on Sunday, Aug. 24. -
Connecticut officials are reacting with frustration to the Trump administration’s recent order to stop construction on Revolution Wind, an offshore wind farm project that was poised to soon provide electricity to at least 350,000 homes in Connecticut and Rhode Island. -
As of right now, there is no empirically validated treatment protocol for climate therapy. But researchers are studying how different forms of therapy can help. -
As high school sports ramp up across Connecticut, athletic trainers are keeping an eye on extreme heat. The state has activated extreme heat protocols four times this year
