Science & Environment

State and federal officials today announced the establishment of a 52,000 acre National Estuarine Research Reserve in the waters and shoreline of Southeastern Connecticut.

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, it’s a magazine show — which is to say, it’s a show covering a number of disparate topics linked only by the fact that we’ve decided to cover them together.

Drones could be a new frontier for farming as the agriculture industry looks to unmanned aerial vehicles as a way to save farmers time and keep crops healthy.

Gov. Ned Lamont asked the federal government Thursday to assist farmers who suffered crop damage due to Tropical Storm Elsa. In a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, the governor said high winds and heavy rains caused growers across the state “significant damage and crop losses.”

This hour on Where We Live: Electrifying everything, from our cars to our homes, is key to reducing our reliance on fossil fuels. But to do that, we need batteries. We take a look at the science behind how lithium ion batteries work and the environmental impacts of producing them.

Electric vehicle adoption in Connecticut has a long way to go if the state wants to hit an ambitious target of getting more than 125,000 electric vehicles on the state’s roadways by 2025. And while this year has seen a spike in EV sales, overall registrations are still far off the goal.

This hour, on The Colin McEnroe Show: For decades, Christian evangelicals were the fastest-growing religious group in this country. Now, young evangelicals are abandoning the faith. And: A new competitive edge in pro sports — the COVID vaccines. And finally: our conversation with Wally Funk. Tomorrow, at age 82, she'll become the oldest person ever to fly to space.

The impending doom of an asteroid (or comet or whatever) colliding with the Earth is the premise of any number of movies and books and such. But what…

They are giants who live their whole lives underwater. In many ways, a whale’s life is completely alien to the human experience. Yet these ocean giants…